Vice President, Rapid Application Developer

Location: 787 7th Ave, New York, NY 10019. Telecommuting permitted 40% within normal commuting distance.

About the role

Highly visible, front-office-facing role within the RAD (Rapid Application Development) team, covering both Global Credit and Macro business lines with a focus on Fixed Income products—including Options, Exotics, FX, Inflation, Emerging Markets, Swaps, Bonds, and Repo across New York and LATAM regions. Responsible for developing and providing front-line support for risk and P&L tools used by fixed-income trading desks across the Americas, with an emphasis on tactical rapid delivery.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain risk and P&L tools for fixed-income trading desks.
• Deliver timely management reports and collaborate on RAD system development, support, and maintenance while complying with IT governance.
• Ensure system stability, maintain quality, and mitigate operational risk.
• Coordinate data transfer with external providers.
• Collaborate closely with trading, sales, business management, regulatory, quantitative research, application support, back office, and operations to implement tactical and strategic solutions for improved application performance.
• Plan, execute, test, and deploy software updates and enhancements to meet business requirements, ensuring appropriate segregation of development and production.
• Conduct research, draft presentations, and address IT governance within systems, identifying root causes of operational incidents and proposing mitigation strategies.
• Present to quantitative-research, middle-office, front-office sales, and trading teams within the context of Risk and P&L.
• Perform data analysis and visualization to help stakeholders make data-driven decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (US or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Financial Engineering, or related field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or a related role.
• OR Master’s degree (US or foreign equivalent) in the same fields and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or a related role.
• Five (5) years of experience (or three with a Master’s) in Rapid Application Development (RAD) or a front-office-facing role focused on Fixed Income products within an international bank or financial services organization.
• Three (3) years of experience with:
  • Fixed Income instruments and derivatives, including Interest Rates Swaps, Options, Exotics, FX, Inflation, Emerging Markets, Swaps, Bonds, and Repo products across New York and LATAM regions.
  • Software development in SQL, Python (including scientific packages), Excel/VBA, and DevOps tools.
  • Building and maintaining software reporting tools.
  • Addressing IT governance, identifying root causes of operational incidents, and proposing tactical and strategic mitigation solutions.
  • Developing Risk and P&L tools and providing analysis and support for fixed-income trading desks within the Americas.

Pay

$158,791 – $200,000 per year.

Schedule

9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday (40 hours per week).