Senior Application Developer, Risk

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Job Description

The Risk Management Technology group provides support to global Risk Management in the areas of technology and information processing for measuring, quantifying, analyzing, controlling, and reporting Risk exposures for traded securities products.

The position is for a Senior developer who will be part of Technology team supporting the Global Risk Management Technology group. The work assignments will include playing a key developer role in major project related work. Projects will include custom development, implementation and integration of vendor products, and enhancement/support of existing systems.

The Role will involve designing and developing server-side components, API implementation, complete application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities; contributing to team meetings; troubleshooting issues and resolving production problems along with supporting users by developing documentation and assistance tools.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work as a senior analyst Developer in Risk management Technology.
• Work closely with business analysts/project managers/other developers/stakeholders to implement requirements on Linux / Microsoft based platforms utilizing relevant programming languages, scripting and SQL.
• Verify implementation, perform functional testing and deliver the system/module in production.
• Perform initial tests to cover functional and non-functional requirements before users do their UAT.
• Perform 2nd line support for production application when necessary.

Essential Experience/ Skills:

• Strong SQL skills and experience in Oracle or other RDBMS platforms.
• Strong server-side Java or Python knowledge and 8+ years of relevant experience of developing/enhancing applications.
• Good understanding of APIs best practices and modular object-oriented design and development.
• Ability to write detailed and understandable technical documentation
• Experience of using GIT based source control repository and tools such as Bitbucket and SourceTree.
• Experience using Jira for full development cycle (requirement to deployment).
• Experience and knowledge of SDLC methodologies and development processes such as requirement gathering, analysis and definition, prototyping, proof of concept, designing and implementation
• Experience in financial services industry either in market risk or credit risk domain with understanding of analytics integrations for calculations of PnL vectors, various methods to calculate portfolio VaR, sensitivities, PFE etc.
• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics

Preferred:

• Experience in the financial services industry, preferably with exposure to market risk or counterparty credit risk applications
• Experience in ETL (extract, transform and Load) development
• Some Cloud experience will be a nice plus.

Personal Attributes:

• Strong analytical, verbal and written communication skills
• Self-starter and entrepreneurial in approach
• Ability to escalate / follow-up proactively
• Good time management skills

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About Us

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (''Jefferies,'' ''we,'' ''us'' or ''our'') is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our Leucadia Asset Management alternative asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia.

At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.

Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.