Lead Technical Specialist

About the role

We are looking for a Technical Lead who will take a leading role in developing back-end applications for financial data analysis. Applications developed provide APIs for analysis of market data both historically and in real-time streaming fashion. API customers include GUI applications as well as direct API callers, with an emphasis on producing substantial analytics on large data sets in rapid time (seconds or sub-second). The applications developed span multiple asset types, including equities, commodities, and fixed income products.

Responsibilities

Engineering:

• Provides design recommendations, develops application and custom integration solutions including major improvements and interfaces.< /span>
• Implements solutions using the appropriate programming languages and tools.
• Able to independently research, analyze, and resolve sophisticated problems and issues.
• Researches new and emerging technologies.
• Researches, and recommends external and internal tools, applications, and platforms.
• Candidate should be flexible and eager to learn new systems or languages, as required.
• Carries out unit testing and implements multi-functional systems ensuring system meets need s of client and business.

Leadership:

• Leads or works on multiple projects with varying levels of complexity and acts as oversight and of lower levels.
• Work with external contractors.
• Will mentor individuals within the group.
• Leads own and team resources in accordance with project schedule.
• Experience in Scrum workflow and using JIRA will be advantageous.
• Practices and promotes good coding practices among the team: tested, clean and w ell-commented code, proper source versioning (Git) practices.

Client Engagement:

• Reviews product requirements and works with product managers to modify them as needed.
• Develops functional specifications and system design specifications based on client and product team input.
• Serves as an authority or liaison for technology issues.
• Works closely with UI teams to align back-end requirements.

Information Security:

• Designs software and architectures with information se curity built-in at the onset.
• Implements and use required security monitoring tools including static code analysis and vulnerability scanners.
• Performs and evaluates application security reviews on an ongoing basis, assess issues identified, and take steps to resolve issues.

Audit & Compliance:

• Coordinates, plans, and implements information technology compliance and regulatory audits.
• Tracks and follows up on remediation efforts from issues identified in the audit process.
• Revi ews effort to ensure compliance to application architecture standards.

Operational Support:

• Implements sufficient monitoring and alarming for automated error handling.
• Able to maintain IaC code and perform DevOps tasks when appropriate.
• Designs resilient and redundant systems.
• Follows procedures from Operations teams for the proper release and maintenance of applications.
• Supports Operations team for diagnosis of issues in running systems when needed.

Experience and qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, or related technical / scientific field
• 4+ years of relevant technical coding experience
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Effective communication and teamwork skills.

Technical Skills Required:

• Broad experience in Java / Spring Boot
• Web Services, REST APIs, WebSocket
• Multithreading concepts and practice
• Data structures
• Git or other source control, CI/CD/Jenkins, Unit testing frameworks

Technical Skills - Nice to have:

• Experience with a range of languages (C/C++, Python, etc.)
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS and/or Azure)
• Experience with financial concepts and data protocols (Elektron, RWF)
• Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS
• Kafka, SQS, other streaming mes saging protocols
• IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation
• SQL database / PostgreSQL use and optimization
• Distributed systems
• Linux OS, Bash
• Network, TCP/IP

YOUR PACKAGE WHEN JOINING GDYNIA TEAM:

• Bonus: Quarterly or annual bonus plan assigned to every position
• Wellbeing: monthly wellness and work-from-home allowance, and employee assistance program
• Healthcare: private medical care with Medicover, premium package fully covered by employer and life insurance with Generali
• Future: corporate pension plan supported by Fidelity International offering additional 5% of base salary to invest in selected funds, and LSEG Employee Share Purchase plan available
• Reward and Recognition: additional awards and vouchers available for extra achievements
• Referral: Bonus between 8,000 to 10,000 PLN for successful recommendation of a new colleague
• Development: E-learning platforms access with a range of training and certified courses
• LSEG Products: availability to access to real-time economic data through our flagship Workspace platform
• Diversity: Inclusive culture built by colleagues from over 40 countries representing various age, gender, race, and beliefs
• Charity: 2 additional days off for voluntary job s
• Office: brand new, sustainable office with cafeteria and chillout space. Location 3T Office, Gdynia is less than 200m to PKM station and a walking distance to SKM station. Underground car park with 122 spaces for LSEG employees
• Activities: sport teams and social events to join e.g. weekly yoga classes in the office
• Company events: Annual Summer and Winter Parties for colleagues and Family Day for employees with partners and children

Proud to share LSEG in Poland is Great Place to Work certified (Feb ’24 – Feb ’25).

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We believe that creating a diverse and inclusive organisation is fundamental to the way we deliver on our promise of creating essential partnerships and open opportunities. Our open culture is central to how we deliver our purpose - driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth - in everything we do.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 70 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

We offer a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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