About the Role
This role will act as lead to own and drive the strategy, delivery, and day-to-day operations of our Market Data Services platform across Global Markets. This individual will lead a team of developers responsible for building highly scalable, low-latency, and resilient market data infrastructure that powers front-office trading and risk activities worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Team lead for the developers on the Market Data Services team
- Lead, mentor, and grow a cross-functional team of market data developers and platform analysts across one or more locations
- Attend meetings with key stakeholders to understand requirements
- Ensure that modern development practices are adopted by the development team
- Actively track performance metrics and develop solutions to address any issues found
- Coordinate testing and release management with the QA team
- Provide 2nd line support for production incidents with the Application Support team
- Manage integration with other dev teams in GDT, such as XTrader, XVA, Risk Technology
- Collaborate with the front-office trading teams and Quantitative Analysis teams
- Ensure shared accountability for overall success in achieving the Technology strategy and objectives with colleagues on the Technology management teams
- Resolve complex technical issues and/or engage external expertise/resources as required
- Gather anecdotal and factual information from a number of sources to formulate a root cause
- Refine business requirements, convert them to technical requirements, and devise an appropriate solution
- Understand various design patterns for new environments and applications
- Analyze project and/or technical risk by analyzing project details such as timelines or capability changes
- Deal with issues that are outside of normal business processes and are encountered for the first time
- Deliver solutions to multiple initiatives with key dependencies and conflicting/changing timelines with finite resources
- Provide direction to team members, resolve disputes and show-stopper issues
Requirements
- Must have leadership skills such as providing direction to team members, resolving disputes and show-stopper issues
- Must be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified and have a valid work or study permit if applicable
Skills
- Strong C# and .NET
- Strong ASP.Net WebAPIs, middleware, OpenAPI/Swashbuckle, ODATA
- Core Market data technologies such as Bloomberg B-Pipe, BPIPE API, Server API, Bloomberg Data License, EMRS, Refinitiv, Elektron Platform
- Cloud experience is required – Linux systems engineering, Docker, Kubernetes, Monitoring and observability using OpenTelemetry
- Able to write performant code, and able to spot non-performant code
- Familiar with latest .NET features
- Comfortable with SQL querying and DB design principles (SQL Server)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Comfortable with writing documents such as requirement specs, user guides, support manuals etc
- Leadership skills
- Analytical Thinking
- Application Development
- Business Requirements
- Data Services
- Design
- Emerging Technologies
- Information Technology Project Management
- Infrastructure Management (IM)
- Leadership
- Solutions Development
- Technical Leadership
- Work Collaboratively
Location
- 150 Cheapside, 1st Flr, London
Work Type
- Regular
- Office environment
About the Company
- We’re building a relationship-oriented bank for the modern world.
- At CIBC, we embrace your strengths and your ambitions, so you are empowered at work.
- Our team members have what they need to make a meaningful impact and are truly valued for who they are and what they contribute.
- To learn more about CIBC, please visit CIBC.com
- Global Derivatives & FICC Technology. This group provides technology solutions to the CIBC Capital Markets derivatives, fixed income and currency trading businesses.
- At CIBC, we are in business to help our clients, employees and shareholders achieve what is important to them.
- Our ability to create value for all CIBC stakeholders is driven by a business culture based on common values: Trust, Teamwork and Accountability.
- Working with CIBC makes you a part of a work environment committed to our clients, employees and communities - a place where you can excel.
- Every day, our 48,000 employees help our clients achieve their financial goals, because what matters to our clients, matters to us.
Equal Opportunity
- CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong.
- We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience.
- If you need accommodation, please contact Mailbox.careers-carrieres@cibc.com
