Swaps SME Python Developer

Join a capital markets technology group supporting complex swaps and derivatives platforms across trading and post-trade environments. This team works closely with business, technology, and operations partners to support critical systems used across the trade lifecycle. The environment is collaborative, fast-moving, and highly technical, with a strong focus on reliable automation, data accuracy, and continuous improvement across business-critical workflows., * Build, enhance, and maintain Python-based automation supporting swaps and derivatives technology workflows.

• Validate trade lifecycle processes across trading, post-trade, risk, reporting, and downstream systems.
• Work with APIs, databases, files, and message flows to ensure trade data is accurate, complete, and consistent.
• Develop automation and validation scripts for regression testing, backend checks, data lineage, and workflow verification.
• Partner with developers, business users, and technology teams to review requirements, identify risks, and strengthen automation coverage.
• Analyze trade processing issues, data breaks, and system behavior across upstream and downstream applications.
• Support validation of complex trade attributes, lifecycle events, and data movement across internal and external platforms.
• Contribute to CI/CD-integrated test execution, reporting, and continuous improvement of automation frameworks.

Software Engineering, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Capital Markets, Swap Market, Continuous Improvement, Automation, Derivatives, Data Quality, Technical Operations, Process Improvement, Do You Bring Proven Success in Swaps and Derivatives Platforms?

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, automation engineering, SDET, backend validation, or capital markets technology.
• Hands-on experience with swaps, derivatives, fixed income, or broader capital markets systems.
• Strong understanding of trade lifecycle concepts across trading, post-trade, risk, settlement, reporting, or downstream processing.
• Python coding, scripting, automation, or debugging experience.
• Experience with backend validation, API testing, SQL, data validation, or automation framework development.
• Familiarity with trading systems, risk systems, post-trade platforms, OMS/EMS workflows, market data, FIX, messaging, or internal financial systems.
• Experience with capital markets platforms such as Murex, Sophis, Summit, Calypso, Aladdin, Charles River, DTCC, Omgeo, Bloomberg, Tradeweb, DealerWeb, ION, Broadridge, or similar systems is a plus.
• Strong SQL skills for validating trade data, reconciliation results, reporting outputs, and source-to-target data flows.
• Ability to work in Agile/Scrum environments with developers, business stakeholders, and cross-functional technology teams.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to explain technical and business issues clearly.