Python Developer
Hybrid
London, United Kingdom
Freelance
21-03-2025
Job Specifications
Margo is seeking a Python Developer to integrate the Risk function group of one its investment banking partners.
Job Purpose
The team is looking for a Python Developer to be responsible for the construction of application components and scripting to manage the interchange of data between external services and the system and apply the methodologies related to the calculation of market and counterparty risk metrics. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness on deal and market data integration plus market risk and counterparty metrics calculation. In this context understanding of quantitative finance, together with a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and product quality is essential.
Main Tasks and Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be expected to fulfil the role of a Market Risk Measures Python Developer as follows:
Be part of a growing team that is at the heart of our investment in regulatory and business driven change
Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Python code
Rapidly prototyping solutions to quickly prove/disprove new concepts
Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
Deal processing and integration into the system
Risk Metric Calculation
Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation
The candidate is expected to perform the above tasks in collaboration and agreement with the team leaders, project leads and other development staff, and where necessary with the Business Analysts, Data Quality, Application Production and Infrastructure teams.
Professional Qualifications / Candidate Profile
Minimum Qualification Requirements:
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Finance or related field
Data or Risk Management related business analysis experience is preferred
Proven ability to resolve incidents in a production environment
Technical Skills Required:
Able to incrementally deliver server-side applications to meet dynamic customer requirements
Proficient in Python, with a good knowledge of its ecosystem
Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and functional programming paradigms
Familiar with Python application design and architectural patterns
Demonstrable ability to write clean and readable code
Experience with SQL and any industry standard relational database
Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
Creating data schemas that represent and support business processes
Unit, integration and end to end testing
Functional Skills Required:
Appetite for developing an understanding of quantitative finance and risk metrics
Experience of market and/or counterparty risk would be advantageous
Knowledge of risk and pricing and deal representation would be advantageous
Knowledge/Skills/Experience Required:
Strong analytical skills with a creative and flexible approach to problem solving
Capacity to work effectively in a team
Delivery-focused with keen attention to detail
Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
Professional and precise communication skills
About the Company
More than a simple IT consulting group, MARGO is an alchemy of talents with constantly enriched expertise, always encouraged to be dynamic and to flourish. For more than 17 years, we have been carrying out missions of the highest technical complexity, enabling the digital acceleration of our clients, while ensuring a perpetual intellectual and collective stimulation for all our talents. At MARGO it's Consultant First. By joining MARGO, your talent today will remain relevant tomorrow. We bring you into the group not only... Know more
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