Director, Risk Systems/Solution Architect - Capital Markets
Summary
About Us
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the largest equity derivatives organization in the world. We provide central counterparty clearing and settlement services for equity options, futures, options on futures, and securities lending transactions. We serve approximately 115 clearing members and 15 exchanges including CBOE, Nasdaq, and NYSE.
What We Need
We are building a culture that empowers continued learning, authentic innovation, and constant creativity. We are looking for an individual to join our team as an Information Systems Architect with the following skills and abilities:
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
What You’ll Do
- Collaborating with others to deliver complex projects which may involve multiple systems.
Continuously thinking about the next steps while improving yourself and others around you.
Developing solutions to complex business and technical challenges while collaborating with others.
Analyzing, documenting, refining, and governing architectures that you develop.
Creating strategies and transition plans to deliver target state architectures.
Recommending technologies and tools that improve the efficiency and quality of OCC’s systems and development processes.
Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
6+ years of relevant work experience.
Experience working with the following: Unix/Linux environments, event-driven systems, transaction processing systems, high performance computing, distributed and parallel systems, large software system development, security software development, public-cloud platforms.
Fluent in object-oriented design, industry best practices, software patterns, and architecture principles.
Experience working with enterprise architecture frameworks, like TOGAF.
Experience defining and documenting architecture strategies, designs, and requirements across all enterprise architecture domains – business, information systems (applications & data), and technology.
Experience with high speed distributed computing frameworks eg - AWS EMR, Hadoop, HDFS, S3, MapReduce, Kubernetes, Mesos, Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, Apache Beam etc.
Experience with distributed data stores Eg - HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB, AWS Dynamo DB etc.
Experience with some messaging frameworks. Eg- Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc.
Experience with Big Data architectures and BI solutions
4+ years of work experience in the capital markets industry.
Working knowledge of risk analytics, measures and quantitative models, ideally including credit risk and Monte Carlo models
Experience designing integration of quantitative libraries and working with quant development teams
Preferred Qualifications:
Understanding of AWS services like EC2, RDS, S3, KMS, AWS CLI, Networking, AWS Security and IAM etc.
Technical Skills:
Java-based software development experience.
Experience working with the following: Unix/Linux environments, event-driven systems, transaction processing systems, distributed and parallel systems, large software system development, public-cloud platforms.
Fluent in object-oriented design, industry best practices, software patterns, and architecture principles.
Experience working with enterprise architecture frameworks, like TOGAF.
Experience defining and documenting architecture strategies, designs, and requirements across all enterprise architecture domains – business, information systems (applications & data), and technology.
Experience designing and developing service-based, component architectures
Step 1
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Step 2
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Step 3
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