Lead Software Engineer - Python - Trade OMS - Chicago 250k - Living Talent

Lead Software Engineer (Python – Azure – Front Office Investment Management)

• Hybrid (3 days in office) Chicago Loop
• Full Relocation
• Base Salary 150k - 200k + 25% bonus

Responsibilities Overview

• Architect, Design & Develop
• Investment Management Trading & OMS, EMS, etc.
• Proprietary Systems & Vendor Integrations
• New Development, Migrations & Transformation
• Lead projects and drive to completion
• Front office stakeholder collaboration
• Develop and support OMS across asset classes (primarily Equity, some Fixed Income)

Major Projects

• Implementation of State Street Alpha
• Cloud Transformation of legacy and current environment, systems, platforms, applications, etc.
• All new work is cloud native

There is a lot to do, and this position provides the flexibility to do other work of your choosing.

Skills & Experience

• 7 years enterprise design and development
• 3 years Investment Management (or similar) including Investment platforms (OMS, TCA, Trade Order Ops, etc.)
• Charles River IMS is ideal; however, other platforms will suffice.
• EMS (Portware or similar)
• Azure (Migration to Azure and New Development in Azure)
• Python
• SQL, data pipeline development
• Snowflake, Databricks (helpful but not required)
• Java, C# (helpful but not required)
• Bachelors / Masters in CS or similar is ideal
• Experience with API design, messaging, and web application development