Senior Platform Engineer

• We are a growing team within the bank and constantly involved in industry changing solutions

• You will be part of an innovative environment with likeminded individuals

• Together we can place customers at the centre of what we do.

Do work that matters

The role of a Platform Engineer is to design, build, and run software platforms to deliver business value, and to write code that automates the running of our infrastructure and environments.

Collaboratively work with other customer facing engineers to design, build and run platforms that are used to deliver business value at greater quality, velocity, and safety.  Write code that automates the operations of our platforms, infrastructure, environments, and tooling.  Maintain the underlying infrastructure to ensure that it is reliable, secure and scalable.  Contribute to making our platforms loved by our engineers and end-users.

Contribute to software that ensures all deployment and operations is as automated as possible, using languages such as Python, and automate implementation of controls into our platforms.  Participate in cross-group activities to build a culture of one team, bar-raising both our engineering capability and our technology solutions to drive our strategy.

See yourself in our team

You will be part of the eFIR (Electronic Fixed Income and Rates) team, working on the bank’s ION electronic trading platform.  In this role, you will be responsible for supporting and extending this system and directly interacting with the bond, IRS, and repo trading desks.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be contributing to the on-going support and extension of the ION platform, using your technical skills and business knowledge to solve real problems to maintain our leading market trading position.  You will be conceiving and driving process improvements that add significant business value. You will also be invited to join our regular engineering guilds, both local and global, to engage in knowledge sharing and learning more world-class skills, techniques, and processes.

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

• Are ready to be flexible with working hours to provide support for traders in a bustling and exciting trading floor environment, as well as be available for weekend releases when required

• Have hands-on experience in running operations aligned to DevSecOps principles, contributing to the fundamental design, development/configuration, and deployment of the platform.

• Have experience in driving test modernisation activities such as integrating test execution into CI/CD pipelines, and automation of other tasks including deployment of components to production.

• Proven experience in building test automation frameworks from scratch, and ability to maintain existing test automation frameworks.

• Ability to implement and drive continuous improvement initiatives. 

• Are naturally curious, and thrive on learning new things, whether it’s business, technology, or just something new to them.

• Working with a sense of urgency by understanding business impacts and with excellent incident management skills.

• Interact with various upstream and downstream application teams, front office support teams, vendors, developers and traders.

Tech Skills:

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these, or a willing to learn these skillsets, (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team:

• Ideally previous experience in a technical platform support role

• Ideally experience with front-office trading systems, e.g. ION MarketView or Anvil

• Ideally experience with various ION/Anvil components such as MMI, System Administrator, PXE, RefData, TRPM solution, VMO, D2C market gateways, D2D market gateways

• Design and implement secure CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins or TeamCity

• Develop and maintain automated infrastructure with a focus on scripting and programming using languages such as Python, PowerShell, shell, Perl, Java to implement controls and tasks for building and releasing software continuously

• Comfortable working in a Linux command-line environment

• Efficient working in a Windows desktop environment including tools such as Oracle SQL Developer, Microsoft Word, Excel, JIRA, and Confluence

• UI test automation tools such as TestComplete PRO

• Developing API test automation frameworks

• Optimise AWS cloud infrastructure for performance and scalability.

• Setting up application monitoring tools such as ITRS Geneos

Business Skills:

We are a business-facing team and part of our value add is our in-depth knowledge of the trading business and in particular, fixed income and secured lending trading.

• Interest in a trading business

• Interest in corporate finance

• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with other support teams such as technology, operations, risk, compliance

• Ideally knowledge of bond, IRS, repo, and other fixed income products

• Ideally some knowledge of bond pricing techniques.

• Ideally some knowledge of trading

• Ideally knowledge of how a front-office trading desk works and the various roles

• Ideally experience interacting with traders, salespeople, and other business roles

Working with us:  

Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with us is for you.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few.

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. We’re looking for people who truly live our values: Care, Courage and Commitment and we’ll offer you great opportunities to develop your career with us.