Lead Software Engineer - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you an experienced Software Engineering Manager with knowledge of Investment Management and Financial Services?

Have you gained this through the implementation of a leading wealth management or asset management vendor package with complex integration effort?

If so, we are recruiting an exciting new role within our Technology team

Background

Our core investment platforms are Aladdin for our funds and derivatives book of business, and a new vendor platform for our wealth and institutional book of business.

We currently have an internal data warehouse, low code workflow and dashboard platformsand sophisticated investment risk and macro research internal platforms.

The work will be a combination of integration of vendor platforms and in-house development of key capabilities not provided by the vendors.

Key responsibilities

Planning the work required and lead the development efforts across the tech team providing technical direction and expertise.
Handson development, building of fitforpurpose software & seamlessly integrating systems to support Ruffer investment requirements.
Linemanaging software engineers with a view to developing their skills and furthering their career.
Engaging and collaborating with peers on departmental engineering objectives: development tools and standards, developers efficiency / experience, architecture/frameworks/ security, continuous improvement activities etc.

To be considered for this role you will need a minimum of 8 years experience across following technologies:

Languages :NET Core, C#, NodeJ/JavaScript,
Development Environments: Visual Studio, SQL Server management studio, Oracle Developer
Databases: MongoDb, ElasticSearch, Oracle, SQL Server
Frameworks/Libraries/Tools:
Deployment: Containerisation tools such as Docker, Ansible or Kubernetes
Understanding of Azure or Cloud Services
Communication: Messaging (RabbitMQ), REST Web Services
Workflow: WF
GUI: JavaScript
Office Automation: VSTO, Aspose.

Words, Aspose.
Excel

Testing/

CI :
XUnit, MOQ, SpecFlow, TeamCity

You will also need a demonstrable proven track record of:

Exposure to business users: ability to influence and communicate effectively.
Providing clear technological leadership.
Planning technical work in the context of large projects.
Driving team to deliver to expectations, with required support.
Ability to raise issues and risks and mitigate proactively.
Problem solving especially under pressure.
Ability to challenge, ask questions and explore all options.
Ability to influence and act as a role model for more junior resources.

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
**Ruffer operates a 60:40 hybrid working policy, 60% of working time from the office and the option to work the remaining 40% from the office or at home.