AVP, Risk IT Data Engineer

The Risk Technology group builds and supports a global risk platform enabling the Risk Management group to oversee all areas of risk across the Firm. The risk platform provides capabilities for measuring, quantifying, analyzing, reporting, and controlling exposures across market and credit. 

The position is for a Senior Developer who will be part of Risk Technology team.  The developer will play a key role in major transformation projects involving the end-to-end build of a modern, highly scalable, risk platform. 

The role will involve the design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of risk analytics, data modelling, reporting, and management systems. This will be executed by implementing system components; coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities; contributing to team meetings; troubleshooting issues and resolving production problems.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Build key risk technology components.
• Interface with senior stakeholders in Risk Management and across the firm to gather requirements and resolve issues.
• Contribute ideas and industry best practices to the wider Risk Technology group as part of design discussions and incident reviews.

Required Qualifications: 

• Expertise in building interactive dashboards, data visualization, and reporting solutions.
• Proficiency in front end technologies such as Angular or React or similar.
• Deep expertise in Java, Python, or similar programming language with experience building production applications.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and large-scale data modeling, processing, and storage utilizing modern columnar and relationship databases like Oracle, Snowflake, and AWS RedShift.
• Experience in developing cloud based loosely coupled event driven microservices using serverless technologies, preferably on AWS.
• Knowledge of modern SDLC tooling, including Git, Bamboo, and Jira.
• Experience in risk analytics, market risk, or credit risk.
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar technical discipline.

Preferred Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex data related issues
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Self-starter and entrepreneurial in approach
• Ability to escalate and follow-up proactively
• Good time management skills

Primary Location Fulltime Salary Range of $140,000 - $180,000.

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. 

The salary offered will take into consideration an individual’s experience level and qualifications. In addition to salary, Jefferies Financial Group is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible, full-time employees or part- time employees, who are scheduled to work at least 30 hours or more per week, including an annual discretionary incentive and retention bonus, competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Jefferies also offers paid time off packages that include planned time off (e.g., vacation), unplanned time off (e.g., sick leave), and paid holidays, and for full time employees, paid parental leave.