Front Office Engineer
Company: Western Asset Management Company Limited
Location: Pasadena
Posted on: May 11, 2022
Job Description:
Western Asset Management's proprietary Front Office and Risk
Systems drive the firm's -$500B of client investment portfolios.
Nearly every aspect of our global fixed-income investment
management process is touched by these applications which put your
software engineering capabilities at center stage of our firm. Our
current effort to cloud modernize our applications provides great
opportunities to significantly learn, grow, and contribute to your
career and Western's success. As a senior software engineer you
will be responsible for leading design, coding, implementation,
quality control and the overall software development process across
a variety of Front Office applications. Your key responsibilities
will include contributing to the application portfolio that
supports our mission critical Trading, Risk and Portfolio Reporting
functions. You will help the team accelerate delivery of critical
features and functionality, while also making material
contributions to technical modernization initiatives. What you will
do
- Own full stack software development efforts aimed at providing
Portfolio Management with robust analysis, reporting, trading tools
and workflow efficiency
- Advance and develop proprietary applications that support Risk
Management & Analytics model development
- Play a key role in architecting future trading systems and risk
applications
- Engineer applications based on cloud native principles
- Work effectively with our infrastructure engineering teams to
implement software solutions with high degrees of scalability and
resiliency
- Execute and migrate existing workloads to cloud
- Collaborate with portfolio managers, risk managers, financial
engineers and senior management to align program focus and
prioritization
- Mentor and grow team members across IT What you will bring
- 7+ years of Core Java experience, system design and
service-oriented architecture
- Expert knowledge of Spring/Spring Boot, Hibernate, Messaging
technologies
- Deep understanding of public cloud implementation and
services
- Knowledge with Kafka, Flink, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker,
GitHub and CICD tools is a plus
- Skilled with Oracle DB, or Sybase, or Snowflake, or
SingleStore, or MySQL
- Financial and investment management industry knowledge
- Excellent communication and team building skills
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent education
required About Western Asset At Western Asset we're saying hello to
the future. Committed to being the leading fixed-income investment
management firm in the world, we're investing in new technologies,
methodologies and markets. We're also investing in our people. Our
business is guided by a belief in doing the right thing: that if we
treat our clients and colleagues with fairness and respect, success
will follow. We're building on our reputation and resources with an
entrepreneurial approach that drives innovation. Every day is an
opportunity for us to get better by making the most of the
possibilities that our people and ideas can bring.
Keywords: Western Asset Management Company Limited, Pasadena , Front Office Engineer, Administration, Clerical , Pasadena, California
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