Data Solutions Capital Markets Technology Team is responsible for providing an AWS cloud-based data factory application with market data. The technology we have used for this application is Kafka, EMR, Spark, Redis and Lamba and rest API. This data platform has provided market data for UK markets.


The team:

• is small, focused and Agile – consisting of a Product Manager, in-house developers, support staff, external consultants and QA teams.
• builds upon and maintains local relationships with the Business and other Product teams (UK Equity Trading, Turquoise Trading and Surveillance teams) with regards to Strategy, Vision, Roadmaps, Business Requirements etc.
• progresses the Change Management process for Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW), BI and other applications within Data Solutions team
• helps the QA teams (offshore) to design, build and execute appropriate test suites.
• works with users to train them, coordinating the test and acceptance of the final system solution (UAT)
• gets the technology platform changes deployed into production (working with internal Technology Project Managers and teams who physically manage the environments and perform releases etc)
• 2nd/3rd line production support (issue investigation and analysis, evaluation of priority with business)

We are looking for a data warehouse team lead to join our growing team of developers and QA experts. The team lead report to the Product Manager for the corporate data warehouse.

Responsibilities:

• Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery.
• Provide technical guidance to teammates through coaching and mentorship.
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.
• Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts and solutions architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain the applications built on AWS technologies.
• Oversee and manage the full development lifecycle, from analysis and production of business requirements, through development and testing, to deployment, including release management and change management.
• Assist in support roles, managing the daily lifecycle, planning and supporting integration testing with upstream and downstream systems, assisting reporting including regulatory reporting and also managing performance, security and license management.
• Assist in the collection and documentation of user's requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plans.
• Prepare reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of software running the data warehouse including data landing , ETL Reporting and processing.
• Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards.
• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.
• Package and support deployment of releases.
• Analyze and resolve technical and application problems.
• Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget. Provide third-level support to business users.