Job Description

Must Have's:

1. Java Expert (Coding, Tuning, Distributed Memory Fabric, JMS, TCP/IP, UDP)
2. Oracle or Postgres Database
3. Linux scripting
4. Corporate Bond [HY or IG] Electronic Trading market structure (domain skill)

JD:
10+ years of experience

Domain Knowledge Capital Markets:
Must Haves:

1. Corporate Bond [HY or IG] Electronic Trading market structure
2. Deep understanding on Financial calculations, such as conversion of Yield to Price and basic understanding of Spread
3. Deep understanding of BWIC/OWIC negotiating protocol, including nuances with LP/ECN/ATS
4. Deep understanding of Offer Management including concepts of Tiering levels
5. Deep understanding of Market Data including Aggregated, Consolidated and Montage books
6. Understanding of Post Trade Feed flows including calculations for settlement

1. Understanding of Risk including DV01, CR01 and generally what these numbers indicate
2. Understanding of strategies used to position particular inventory sectors
3. Understanding of micro-market structures and typical areas exploited by Algorithmic partners
4. Understanding of any Regulatory organizations
5. Any COTS product knowledge in this domain

Technology Skills:
Must Haves:

1. Deep Java expertise [writing, tuning, configuration driven]
2. Deep Experience with Distributed Memory Fabric
3. Deep experience with Messaging [JMS or native]
4. Experience with raw TCP/IP and UDP/Multicast [prefer to see how implemented reliable Multi-cast]
5. Understanding of Spring, Gradle and Docker
6. Experience with Relational Databases [Postgres or Oracle preferred]
7. Highly skilled in Linux scripting, troubleshooting and host tuning

1. Java Low Latency - including low latency techniques such as memory maps, ring buffers, thread pining and cache line consistency
2. Experience with C/C++, Rust or Python
3. Familiarity with Java Unsafe memory access model
4. Experience with Kubernetes configuration and Jenkins scripting
5. Big Data experience prefer Hadoop with PIG or Hive
6. No SQL Experience, even Mongo DB is ok here
7. Tick Database and Market data streaming understanding
8. Complex Event Processor experience
9. Any COTS product knowledge in this domain
10. Experience with Chromium Engines, HTML5 and Angular or React Javascript libraries

Add'l:

1. Manages functional understanding of requesters process and context
2. Ensures relationships with requesters to make them build understandable requirements
3. Ensures coordination with other groups responsible for delivery of the assigned work product
4. Provides estimations and plan staffing for the new projects getting initiated and follow-up the execution and deviation impacts
5. Communicate clearly and accordingly at all levels (top, down, horizontal) on status of project tasks and on important messages during project lifecycle
6. Provide solutions when encountering problems/issues or initiate taskforce with relevant actors to propose solutions
7. Provides updates on status of the work product as per agreed timelines
8. Manages risks & highlights to the stakeholders ahead of time. Proposes mitigation plan
9. Ensure deliveries are within the agreed timelines and efforts
10. Ensure building coherent governance and implementation via different level of committees
11. SLA driven delivery model; Understanding of SLA's, KPI's & Metrics committed as per contract
12. Leverage on experience in ITIL processes, Incident, Change, Release, Configuration & Problem mgt activities
13. Leverage on experience in Agile processes and follow associated procedures
14. Contribute to documentation and knowledge tools with rigor and seriousness
15. Adapt fast to Cognizant and clients processes & tools to manage projects deliveries
16. Provide high level quality specifications and tests plan documents targeting both end users (for getting their validation) and developers (for making them implement)

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