Senior Financial Engineer - eFinancialCareers : Job Details

Job Title: Senior Financial Engineer, (Software Application Developer) Duration: Initially until the end of June with likely extension Location: London Monday and Friday the remainder is remote Rate: Up to £899.00 per day via an approved umbrella company and based on relevant experience Role Purpose (overall high level summary of the role) Financial Engineering (GRA) is a part of HSBC’s Global Risk Function which provides solutions using analytics, tools, and models to identify, measure and manage key risks. The Senior Financial Engineer is responsible for: • design, build and implementation of GRA Traded Risk Quantitative libraries. The success of this library will be measured against the time to deployment, time of turnover on bugs, test KPIs • delivery of a coding environment that is easy to use, is robust and can be fully re-used • work closely with GRA Quant Analysts, IT and Front Office to create synergies across different functions and departments Principal Accountabilities: Key activities and decision making areas • Responsible for Implementing software strategically, following best practice to ensure that solutions address the evolving business and regulatory requirements; • Work closely with the Head of Financial Engineering to ensure smooth change management and maintenance of the system in compliance with HSBC Group standards; • Work closely with the Quantitative Analytics teams to build software solutions that are practical, workable and comply with accounting, regulatory or other requirements; • Ensure FIM and other applicable accounting/regulatory requirements are met. Liaise with Internal/External audit and regulators where necessary; • Maintain focus on process optimisation and identify opportunities to enhance cost efficiency where possible (e.g. automation, outsourcing, centralisation etc). Qualification: Masters in a quantitative subject. Requirements (Essentials): • Critical programming skills in Python 3.x with deep knowledge of NumPy and Pandas. • Advance experience in building end-to-end applications encompassing all phases of software development lifecycle. • Strong knowledge in Software Engineering, Object Oriented Design, Design Patterns. • Knowledge of software development lifecycle/methodologies (Agile, Scrum etc.). • Deep understanding of software architecture in particular of distributed systems. • Experienced with Dash or other UI frameworks. • Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.d • Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision. • Excellent written English and oral communication skills. Requirements (Desired): • Experience working in Financial Markets, Derivatives and Banking domain. • Knowledge of REST, gRPC, Apache Beam. • Experience on other Object Oriented languiage like C#,C++, Java. If this is the role for you please submit your CV at your aerliest convenienvce.