The middle office technology team works collaboratively across our client services, fund accounting, treasury, trade operations and compliance teams to automate and streamline their processes; ensuring the firm can manage even more client money across a wider range of complex assets and fund structures than ever before.
The team works closely with business teams and business exposure is core to everything we do. We will help you to build an excellent understanding of business processes – and you will gain a deep knowledge of how the Hedge Fund Engine runs – and how to tune it!
Key Responsibilities
Primary Duties
- Provide 2nd-line and engineering support for the middle/back office technology stack; triage production issues, reproduce defects in development environments and deliver fixes.
- Design, implement and test new features and enhancements across systems used by Client Services (reporting), Fund Accounting, Treasury, Trade Operations and Compliance.
- Replace or modernise legacy components where appropriate (refactor, re-implement or migrate systems to more robust architectures), while minimising operational risk.
- Write clean, well-tested, documented code; own automated unit/integration tests, and contribute to release automation and CI/CD pipelines.
- Work closely with business users to understand requirements, document business processes and produce operational runbooks and diagnostic approaches.
- Participate in code reviews, design reviews and technical planning; mentor junior engineers as required.
- Assist with controlled releases into production and liaise with the Production Systems Group for deployments and operational procedures.
- Ensure solutions meet compliance, audit and security requirements; maintain appropriate logging, monitoring and alerting.
- Continuously improve processes, tooling and operational resilience for the middle office technology estate.
Technical stack & tools
- Primary language: Java (primary responsibility for core services).
- Database: Microsoft SQL Server, Snowflake.
- Engineering tooling: Git, unit test frameworks (JUnit / TestNG, NUnit), build/CI systems (Jenkins / Azure DevOps / equivalent), issue trackers (JIRA/Confluence), debugging and profiling tools.
- Useful knowledge: Python, Power BI, Tableau.
General
- Any other duties commensurate with the post holder’s position and seniority; and
- All employees should understand that it is their personal responsibility to comply with all organisational, statutory and regulatory policies and procedures.
Experience, Knowledge & Skills
- 3-5 years professional software development experience with object‑oriented languages (Java preferred).
- Strong relational DB experience (ideally SQL Server and/or Snowflake, but other DBs acceptable).
- Experience working on systems in a middle office environment; one or more of trade settlement/trade operations, fund accounting or fund performance reporting.
- Hands‑on experience supporting production systems: troubleshooting, reproducing issues, applying safe fixes and assisting controlled releases.
- Good understanding of software engineering best practices: testing, code reviews, CI/CD, version control and documentation.
- Excellent communication skills and proven ability to work with business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Experience modernising legacy systems and migrating functionality safely into newer architectures.
- Experience with reporting tools; PowerBI/Tableau.
Educational & Professional Qualifications
- Educated to degree (or equivalent) level or higher, preferably from a leading university.
- A degree with some mathematical and/or computing content.
- Professional certifications are not required but relevant training or certifications (e.g. SQL, Java/.NET, cloud) are a plus.
Systematica Investments provides you with excellent benefits from day 1. We provide private medical insurance for you and your immediate family. We offer competitive salaries combined with an attractive bonus and pension plus free drinks and snacks at the office. We also offer paid parental leave with enhanced leave for mothers/primary carers.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
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