Senior SQL Developer - Front Office Credit & Risk Engineering, Permanent in Central Dublin | Hybrid

Talentspot has partnered with a top-tier, global investment firm to support their search for a talented Engineer to join their Global Credit Technology Team, based in central Dublin. They are not looking for ‘just a SQL Developer’, as you’ll be ‘almost operational’ working day-to-day supporting the trading operations business.

In the short to medium term, you will be focused on developing, tuning, and supporting a trading order management application. This will involve working with a lot of T-SQL that’s been created by the company, where they've added their own SQL-based, bespoke, business logic to what is a highly extensible application. There will also be ad-hoc development projects to support new business opportunities driven by new investment initiatives and regulatory requirements.

In the longer term, their technology roadmap plans for use of this business-critical application to be reduced by building new, replacement applications in-house. The design, build and delivery of these new applications will be principally owned by you.

The ideal candidate will have exceptionally strong SQL development experience of 8 - 10 years. And to support the new development roadmap, Python, or a very strong desire to learn Python based on having other OO programming language experience (such as Java, Ruby etc).

You will join a small group of developers responsible for building and supporting the front-office tools that support their very large Credit business. You will partner directly with front-office investment colleagues, operations, finance, and compliance teams to solve complex business problems in creative ways, automate key processes, and make recommendations on how technology and data can improve and streamline investment decisions.

As your internal clients are front-office investment professionals, excellent interpersonal and communication skills are required alongside a creative problem-solving mindset. This is a unique opportunity to work on a high-calibre team and to bring technical innovation to an interesting and fast-paced business, in which, our customer is a global market leader.

Technical/Business Skills

• 8 - 10+ years’ SQL (they are Microsoft SQL) development experience
• Experience in financial markets Credit and Risk with a good understanding of financial instruments (credit: bonds and loans advantageous) and a genuine passion for financial markets
• Some Python, Java, Ruby, or other OO language experience, to focus on Python for use in future development projects

Soft Skills

• Excellent Interpersonal skills; personable and good at relationship building (with traders, PMs)
• Business analysis, in order to understand what the business is trying to accomplish
• Someone who’ll thrive in a demanding trading business where you’ll need to ‘drop everything’ for important and urgent business needs that require your expertise in a reactionary fashion; gaining satisfaction in turning work around quickly, releasing changes on the platform several times a day.
• Also comfortable working on bigger, new projects, and managing those demands (such as new compliance/regulatory rules, or customer-specific projects) along with the much larger, longer-term development programme
• Willingness to mentor other team members
• Desire and capability of being the senior 'go to' application owner for day-to-day operational requirements along with larger scale projects to support the application replacement initiative

Once settled in the role, with training completed, you should expect to be in the office 3-4 days a week.

Our customer is passionate about technology and passionate about providing their investment and business operations teams with the best possible tools. They remain committed to continuous improvement both in the solutions delivered and in the technical environment in which they work.

They are technologists first and foremost and combine that with a keen interest in financial markets. They work in small, collaborative teams, but within the context and support of a large, global investment firm. They offer challenging and rewarding work, opportunities for learning in both the business & technical spheres and an attractive remuneration package combined with opportunities for career advancement.

You must already be eligible to work in Ireland, as sponsorship is not available.