Consultant Software Engineer

at  CME Group

CME Group is seeking an experienced Consultant Software Engineer to join the CME quant analytics.
The Software Engineer engineers secure, scalable and reliable technology solutions, with minimal mentoring, to advance CME in the global marketplace and serve risk management needs of customers around the world. As a software engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our systems. You will collaborate closely with Product Owners, QA and other pods to create, execute and automate tests, identify defects and help in speeding up time to market. The successful candidate will be able to solve problems creatively, communicate effectively, and work both independently and collaboratively.
The role requires excellent communication, planning, project management and relationship building with global engineering resources, as well as integrating global business and client feedback to improve product build and to ensure that product is delivered on time and is fit for purpose.
CME Group (Press Release) have recently entered into a long-term strategic partnership with Google Cloud that will transform global derivatives markets, by migrating our technology infrastructure to Google Cloud (GCP) and becoming a fully cloud based company.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Deliver working high quality software.
• Conducts system-wide testing and some integration testing.
• Demonstrates skill in language proficiency; Writes application modules and unit tests

with minimal guidance. Designs with guidance and codes independently.

• Exhibits skilled knowledge of database SQL; Performs Elementary database modeling

and intermediate database tuning.

• Identifies potential opportunities for code optimisation. Provides input for code reviews

and helps with environment build deployments, release notes and build notices; Reviews
code to proactively identify and mitigate potential issues and defects and helps to

identify sources of defects as well as troubleshoots various forms of code.

• Uses design tools to frequently share and communicate design ideas on larger systems.
• Uses patterns frequently, contributing to best practice and process enhancements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to liaise with technical and

business stakeholders.

Role Specific Capabilities

• Strong knowledge of Java development and best practices, ideally with experience in

low-latency applications

• Knowledge of SQL
• Experience with streaming pipeline technologies Google Dataflow / Apache Beam /

Apache Flink or similar

• A knowledge of GCP services (or other cloud provider), especially Dataflow, Pub/Sub,

BigQuery, Kubernetes (GKE)

• DevOps experience
• (Desirable) Experience with Bamboo, Bitbucket, Jenkins, XLR, Argo, Terragrunt - or

similar CI/CD pipelines

• (Desirable) Looker or other BI tools
• (Desirable) Basic familiarity with Central Limit Order Book lifecycles

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Principal Accountabilities:

• Deliver working high quality software.
• Conducts system-wide testing and some integration testing.
• Demonstrates skill in language proficiency; Writes application modules and unit test

Role Specific Capabilities

• Strong knowledge of Java development and best practices, ideally with experience i