Job Description

OVERALL SUMMARY

Reporting to a lead software engineer, this role is responsible for the software & technology solution development, delivery, performance across the WINS/WBS on-prem & cloud infrastructure. Ensuring that all security standards are met with architecture, design and development whilst adhering to best practice and governance.as defined in the WINS Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)


Ownership of the Software platform associated with the aligned product team such as EOS, WRAP, Winner, etc. This also includes any temporary reallocation to other product areas as required.


Communication to all levels of the business of progress, performance, and planning is required.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Software Development, Performance, Architecture & Design

Build and maintain Industry leading software & technology solution development, delivery, performance across the WINS/WBS on-prem & cloud infrastructure. All security standards should be met with architecture, design and development adhering to best practice and governance. Deliver all approved business change to a high standard. This includes fixing live issues, implementing service enhancements, and delivering business and client projects & initiatives. Deliver all approved implementations for new and existing clients - key to this is a smooth integration into the day-to-day business operations. Ensure all processes, designs, components, and flows are documented and maintained centrally and to the agreed standard. Controls must be deployed to manage risks and exceptions in a timely manner. Ensure and demonstrate consideration of risk mitigation, functionality, capacity and efficiency in the design, maintenance, and evolution of the WINS/WBS systems [and associated internally designed links to any third-party systems or programmes]. Ensure all software & technology solution design, development & delivery follow appropriate governance process and policy. Write clean and healthy structured, well documented code with a focus on adopting an agile DevOps approach promoting the concept of feature flagging where possible. Build automated testing where possible working closely with Quality Assurance & User Acceptance Testing teams to conduct robust testing and obtain appropriate sign-off. Provide technical oversight of all software delivery including the completion of a detailed "run book" setting out the change, risk assessment and recovery plan. Stay aware of latest data protection and security threats and to make sure we mitigate against these risks. Research & design through horizon scanning in respect of technological requirements or advancements which may meet future needs and/or to provide WINS/WBS with strategic and competitive advantage. Provide day-to-day oversight of your product area, raising any issues to the Head of Engineering for your product area as appropriate. Ownership of live issues & incidents ensuring all facts are established, communication of updates & resolution and a root cause is identified with a supporting plan to fix. Ensure all resulting actions are closed. Ensure proactive communication with all internal stakeholders - particularly with respect to technology performance & change.

WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF:

5+ years experience in Software Engineering. Mandatory Qualification: A degree (or equivalent level qualification) in a relevant IT specialist or proven experience to the same level.

Tools:

Visual Studio (or equivalent) SQL Server CI/DI (Octopus Deploy, TeamCity or equivalent) Git (Bitbucket or equivalent) Atlassian (Jira, Confluence)

Languages, Frameworks and Technologies:

C#, C++, Progress, Javascript, Java, Python, Angular, SQL, WPF, gRPC Financial Information Exchange (FIX) RESTful API and RPC API Experience ASP.NET Core Web API Distributed Systems / Microservices Messaging / Streaming (NServiceBus, RabbitMQ, Kafka, AMQ, Sonic)

Cloud Technology (AWS or equivalent)

IAM, API Gateway, Codebuild, RDS, Lambda, ECS, VPC, SQS, CloudFormation (Terraform), S3

Benefits

Competitive salary inclusive of discretionary annual bonus & annual pay review Work Abroad Policy for up to 15 days per year 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and additional well-being day Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year Flexible working options available, including hybrid working Pension scheme up to 10% employer contribution Sharesave scheme Income Protection & Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover) Private health care via BUPA Employee Assistance Programme Discounted Gym Membership Variety of travel to work schemes

At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don't tick every box. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and are open to discuss flexible work options to help you balance your work and home life.

We appreciate that from time to time, recruitment agencies will have speculative CVs that they may wish to submit to our Talent Acquisition team in relation to a specific role.

To avoid any ambiguity around fees, please note that speculative CVs received by Close Brothers, that have not been authorised in advance, by us, will be ineligible for an agency fee. Thank you.


Winterflood Securities is a leading market maker committed to providing liquidity and flexible execution services to retail brokers, asset managers and institutional investors.


Winterflood's strengths are a combination of traditional trading values and the performance of our own cutting edge technology. Our experienced team of traders helps clients achieve high quality execution in over 15,000 tradable instruments including UK, European and North American Equities together with Investment Trusts, Exchange Traded Products, Fixed Income, Structured Products and Funds. Founded in 1988, Winterflood has gone from being a niche market maker in the UK Small Cap market, to a mature, diverse and major liquidity provider across multiple asset classes in the UK and European markets.


Winterflood is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Winterflood Securities is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Close Brothers Group plc, a specialist financial services group which makes loans, takes deposits, trades securities and provides advice and investment management solutions to a wide range of clients. Close Brothers Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 250.