Operations Engineer Competitive Pricing in Amsterdam

Operations Engineer Competitive Pricing (ING Pricing Platform)

Job description

Financial Markets Competitive Pricing is looking for an enthusiastic experienced Operations Engineer for our in-house developed Financial Markets Pricing & Risk platform. With your passion for Financial Markets and engineering skills you ensure and support a stable, secure and performing critical Financial Markets pricing and risk application, allowing Global Market Risk users and Traders to perform pre-deal pricing of valuation adjustments ( XVA, PFE, CIC), EoD portfolio calculations of valuation adjustment, Market Risk simulations (e.g. VaR, Expected Shortfall, Bilateral Margining) all driven by new ECB regulation as well as advanced Risk analysis on the derivative product portfolio of Financial Markets (interest rates, credits, foreign exchange). 

You and your squad will be delivering key components spread over ING Pricing Architecture (IPA) and RaceING (Risk Analytics Computation Engine) squads of competitive pricing area in ING Financial Markets. They will be the key platforms in the IT landscape for our global dealing rooms, with teams cooperating towards one Financial Markets IT landscape.

Our Purpose

Exposing seamless pricing and risk solutions, providing consistent pre-deal insights and effective portfolio position management meeting all regulatory requirements by the ECB the NFA and Asian regulators.

Your day-to-day

Together with your IT colleagues based out globally (Amsterdam, Bucharest, Singapore, Brussels, Mumbai) you will:

• support and run the IPA service consisting of multiple components such as the in-memory Trade Store (java based, apache ignite, Linux technologies, distributed systems architecture), the Calculation/Risk Engine, the Static Data Manager, the Derived Market Data team, the workflow Orchestrator and the Post Processing application

• Take care of incident management, and root cause analysis in case of unavailability and data quality issues. Using your functional knowledge, you communicate directly with users (Traders, Credit/Market Risk Managers) on this from Amsterdam, London, Brussels, New York, and Singapore
• Implement and work with the latest tooling with a strong focus on performance, stability, and security
• Find opportunities to automate the testing of existing features, performance, and security as well as the automation of deployments, monitoring, and more. This is a key responsibility of the Operations Engineers.
• IT Risk & security controls need to be put in place and accurately documented, for this you will need to get familiar and keep up to date with the ING Information Security Management Policy.
• Continuous deployment and delivery using AzureDevOps, Ansible, Gitlab and many other IT technologies.
• Through Agile/Scrum you bring live new sprint releases every 2-4 weeks to UAT and Production.

We expect you to be responsible and take ownership. Be open, honest, communicate clearly (in scrum ceremonies and outside) and most importantly be eager to learn and proactively improve, yourself, the team and the ecosystem around you.

What you bring to the team

• A University degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Good communication skills, in English
• A customer focus, with the mindset to find and resolve root causes of incidents to structurally improve the customer experience.
• IT Operations/Support experience, including Functional support to end users (such as Traders, Risk Managers, Collateral Managers) combined with analytical skills to identify root causes in workflows incidents (data, technical, functional).
• Depth knowledge on Financial Pricing and Risk concepts (such as XVA, PFE, Initial Margining, PnL, Risk, VaR, etc)
• Experience or affinity with IT Risk & Security concepts