Lead Quantitative Software Engineer – Java – Intraday Risk

at  Deutsche Bank

POSITION OVERVIEW

Job Title Lead Quantitative Software Engineer – Java – Intraday Risk
Location London
Corporate Title Vice President
Group Strategic Analytics is part of Group Chief Operation Office (COO) which acts as the bridge between the Bank’s businesses and infrastructure functions to help deliver the efficiency, control, and transformation goals of the Bank.
You will be joining the Debt Strats team within Group Strategic Analytics. The group is responsible for delivering platforms to solve quantitative problems for Investment Banking trading businesses. You will be part of the IRiS Intraday Risk and profit & loss (P&L) application team. IRiS is used by over 200 traders globally and provides ticking and event-driven intraday risk and P&L for Rates, Credit and Emerging Markets trading desks. The delivery team consists of quantitative business analysts, Java quantitative engineers, C# engineers, platform engineers and testers, and uses JIRA to track and manage deliveries.
Server-side development is done in Java utilising Oracle Coherence in a low latency, high-throughput, multi-threaded and highly distributed system. The platform runs on clusters of physical Redhat Linux servers, and utilises Oracle Coherence, Spring Framework, Hibernate, Oracle Exadata and Solace and Java Message Service (JMS) messaging.
You will be responsible for analysing, designing, developing and supporting functionality across trade sourcing, market data loading, static data, trade valuation, risk and P&L calculations, real-time aggregation functionality and performance optimisation for Rates, Credit, Emerging Markets and Equity business lines.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• A collaborative approach and a desire to learn
• Experience developing front-office risk and P&L/pricing applications
• Experience of server-side development in Java, including multi-threading and distributed systems
• Understanding of derivatives products, risk and P&L, market data and calibrations
• Experience working with Credit bond and derivatives trading businesses/products
• Experience with Python and/or C++ beneficial

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• Performing analysis, design and development of functionality in IRiS in Java
• Working closely with Business Analysts, trading, quants and other stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver robust, reliable and performant solutions
• Supporting the business through a support rota including investigating queries/ issues
• Providing technical and business leadership for team members and management of deliveries