In addition to the below, a Bachelor’s of Science Quantitative Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Finance, or a closely related field of studies and 3-5 years of relevant experience OR a Master’s of Science Quantitative Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Finance, Financial Engineering or related field is required. To thrive in this role, candidates should have a keen interest in the financial markets.

• Understanding of financial instruments and how they are used in the markets
• Ability to deeply understand correlation between financial data and develop algorithms to drive recommendations
• Able to take feedback constructively and iterate on ideas and solutions from multiple stakeholders with differing opinions
• Meticulous thinker who can effectively work out all the details when presented with big ideas
• A passion for championing innovation
• Understanding of an agile development process, specifically with Scrum and backlog management tools
• Understanding of user-centric design
• Ability to communicate effectively with all stakeholders; i.e. technical developers, business leaders and users
• Some technical / programming experience is preferred, but not required
• Understanding of capital markets and/or financial services
• Detail oriented, demonstrating thoroughness and strong ownership of work
• Quick learner with a demonstrated strong aptitude for learning new business functionality and understanding how and why the business requires them
• Able to prioritize in a fast moving, high pressure, constantly changing environment;
• Good sense of urgency – problem management and escalation

The Financial Engineer will be responsible for contributing to the design, specifications, resource planning and development of our products to meet the needs of our clients, ensure our competitive differentiation and lead to our business profitability. You will work with our product development team to develop the latest functionality and algorithms used in our Optimization tool.

• Responsible for working with business analysts to analyze requirements
• Develop user stories and break down requirements into deliverable functionality.
• Analyze application/business domain data requirements and business rules, understanding the data flow from source to screen.
• Participate in information architecture design sessions
• Conduct process mapping.
• Analyze complex financial data and develop algorithms to optimize how the data is leveraged
• Leverage data warehousing techniques used for analytics and decision making.
• Work with Optimization team to understand develop algorithms to drive the recommendations used in the software product to determine the best collateral allocations and trade decisions.
• Leverage machine learning tools and techniques to help automate manual processing
• Work directly with business stakeholders, clients, designers, developers and engineers to coordinate the building of applications to spec and on time.

Seniority Level:Jr-Mid
Industry: Financial Services, Computer Software
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Functions: Quantitative Analytics, Financial Engineering
Location: Piscataway, New Jersey

To thrive in this role, candidates should be very thorough and possess strong analytical, communication and organizational skills.  

In addition to the below, a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science or related field is required.

Technical Skills

• Strong Core Java concepts
• Java Server side development experience
• Working knowledge of building effective API(s)
• Database technologies and SQL query experience (SQL Server / Oracle / etc.)
• Java Message Service (JMS) – including point-to-point messaging, message types, message delivery to non-Java clients, etc.
• Server-side programming technologies (strong)
• Java Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) API
• RDBMS concepts
• Microsoft SQL server or Oracle database
• Spring
• Multi-Threading/Concurrency
• MongoDB or Hadoop (preferred)
• Some caching technology, such as Ignite or Coherence (preferred)

Additional Non-Technical Skills

• Experience in capital markets and/or financial services
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytics skills, with ability to proactively identify issues before they become major problems.
• Able to thrive in a fast paced, deadline driven environment
• Detail oriented, demonstrating thoroughness and strong ownership of work
• Quick learner with a demonstrated strong aptitude for learning new technologies and understanding how to utilize them
• Able to prioritize in a fast moving, high pressure, constantly changing environment; Good sense of urgency – problem management and escalation
• Strong oral and written communications skills that demonstrate a professional demeanor and the ability to interact with others with discretion and tact

Transcend’s Senior Software Developer will develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.

• Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
• Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Improves operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
• Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
• Supports and develops software engineers by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other related technical degree; or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of DevOps experience including the use of Bitbucket, Git and cloud-based solutions (AWS) or similar.
• 3-5+ years of experience in CI/CD methodologies, automation pipeline, workflows and tools.
• 5+ years of career experience including software development, systems administration, and cloud-based application management.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure, security, Linux, image hardening, scaling, fail-over, load balancing, etc. Strong experience with monitoring and alerting.
• Hands on experience shell scripting, python, cron setup.
• Experience with Dockers, Kubernetes, Ansible with focus on Microservices deployment and scalability
• Experience with automating the installation of various infrastructure services such as Middleware, Databases etc.
• Understanding of business practices, looks for vulnerabilities, and provides continuous monitoring and testing across all platforms
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.

• Implement and manage continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) systems and methodologies on-premise and in a cloud platform.
• Design and maintain tools to automate operational and application processes.
• Assist with creation of automation scripts and templates for provisioning resources, rolling out tools and new features.
• Help with monitoring systems and providing support.
• Work with all teams to achieve business objectives.
• Coordinating with the third-party service provider for timely repair of the system and repairing minor flaws in hardware
• Ensure that software builds happen predictably, consistently and reliably.
• Assist development in troubleshooting system and software issues in all environments.

In addition to the below, a Bachelor’s degree with at least 5-10 years of relevant experience is required. To thrive in this role, candidates should have a keen interest in the financial markets, technology and driving client success.

• 5-10 years of experience working in the Securities Finance, Derivatives, and/or Collateral Management business areas
• Intuitive and responsive to customer’s needs
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to build and maintain long term relationships
• A background in client service or fintech sales is a plus
• Confident, strategic thinker with the ability to analyze and solve problems quickly
• Attentive to detail and organized
• Must be self-motivated, flexible and able to manage multiple clients
• Results driven
• Ability to quickly understand how Transcend software can drive customer solutions
• Team player

• Proactively manage a portfolio of clients by developing strong partner-focused relationships, ensuring maximum adoption of Transcend solutions, and delivering value-add client services.
• Partner with assigned clients as a strategic advisor and engage with them to share best practices & industry trends.
• Design training plans to support recommended use cases
• Manage client relationships in a manner that is focused on proactive engagement. Educate clients on Transcend resources (i.e. support, training, etc.) and ensure they are being fully utilized appropriately.
• Collaborate with Sales and product teams to align on account strategy to maximize success opportunities.
• Leverage and partner with Transcend product and implementation teams to service and support clients ongoing.
• Partner with Transcend product team to incorporate client feedback, use cases and unique requirements in support of the continuous development of Transcend solutions. Drive adoption of new products and features within clients.
• Keep abreast of market trends and best practices.