Vice President, Electronic Trading Software Engineer (Java/C++/Python)
BlackRock
About this role
BlackRock Global Markets (BGM) group was created to advance our investment processes and platform architecture and ensure we most efficiently engage with other market participants in a collaborative, strategic way. Within BGM, BlackRock’s Global Trading organization operates with the goals of enhancing trading standards across asset classes, streamlining, and leveraging counter-party relationships, attracting, and retaining top trading talent in the industry, and developing a One BlackRock culture around trading activities. Partnering with portfolio management and regional leadership teams, Global Trading strives to deliver benefits of scale, enhance processes and transparency, improve trading performance, and drive innovation to provide tangible benefits to our clients, investment professionals and shareholders.
As one of the largest asset managers, BlackRock needs to be careful about how it enters and exits investments. BlackRock also needs to increase electronic trading adoption and have tools to handle the increasing volume, complexity and liquidity demandsof our trades optimally.BlackRock’s answer to this problem is its unique eTrading team and its implementation of electronic trading strategies. We are seeking a new member to join the eTrading team to help support and improve our electronic trading application and to continue to develop innovative tools for our traders. We use a highly customized version of a third-party vendor product to implement trading signals and strategies for the Equity, Futures, Options and FX trading teams. We are looking to expand across additional asset classes and the depth of our analytics.This is a high-profile group where we can directly support growth and impact the performance of our funds by providing tools for traders to make better trading decisions and strategies.The job requires a strong technical background and a basic understanding of financial markets.
Key Responsibilities
Work with global teams to design, develop, test and maintain solutions. Solutions include but not limited to improving trading workflows, generating/integrating historical real-time data-driven insights and reducing trading operating risks.
Collaborate with traders to improve trading ecosystem by coming up with creative ideas and discussing new feature requests, issues and resolution
Provide regular updates to team’s project managers and/or stakeholders such as traders
Provide real-time support for our real time trading platform for equities, futures, options and FX
Maintainour existing platform and solutionssuch as version upgrades, migration and business continuity planning exercise.
Design and develop innovative solutions to improve support, testing and development effort
Qualifications, Skills and Attributes
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 8+ years of equivalent experience
Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems & information retrieval
Proficiency with object-oriented and/or functional programming languages such as Java/C++/Python/Scala
Proven understanding in Linux/Unix, Perl, Shell Scripting and databases
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Experience working with “big data” environments a plus
Experience building stream-based analytics using as Spark or Kafka Streaming a plus
Experience with FIX protocol desirable
Basic understanding of financial markets for FX, Equities, Futures, Options & Fixed Income a plus
Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.
Our hybrid work model
BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.
About BlackRock
At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.
This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.
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