DevOps Engineer - Anvil & Repo Trading Expert at ING, London/Remote, 12 Months, £Contractor Rate

ING is a family friendly organisation offering a flexible, hybrid working environment. This is a 12 month contract role and is office based 2 days per week.

Department Overview:

ING Financial Markets (FM) within Wholesale Banking (“WB”) is looking to hire an experienced candidate ION Repo Specialist for a 12 month contract to be based in London.

As part of the team, you will work on a dedicated roadmap focusing on Anvil & Repo eTrading. You will be working as part of a dedicated squad on an agile/sprint basis. The Team handles Repo eTrading deliveries from an ION, the software vendor for Anvil, for all ING locations globally. Integrating these into external venues/systems and Anvil, the Front Office Trade & Position keeping system. You will closely collaborate with the other Anvil Squads within ING and other teams from eServices for account/market setup to Proximity Hosting for network/infra related queries. The ability to think outside the box and problem solves solutions is a must.

As a contractor you will join an overall Anvil Capability team with a strong roadmap of work looking into 2025.

Main Duties and Responsibilities of Role:

Key responsibilities:

• You will implement the high-level roadmaps (planning, co-ordination, dependencies management).
• You will demonstrate the ability to operate independently, proactively and diligently on the assigned tasks to complete them on-time and right-first-time to the satisfaction of the Product Owner and Stakeholders.
• Be able to have a good end-to-end vision and manage complexity.
• Accumulate and collect knowledge, keep it up to date and makes it accessible for re-use. Takes initiatives for sharing knowledge.

Candidate Profile

Qualification/Education

Essential:

• Educated to degree level.

Desirable:

• CFA.

Skills/ Experience

Essential:

• 5+ years of experience in banking and finance, with a strong background in Financial Markets and strong business knowledge of Securities Financing products (lending, repo, …).
• D2D & D2C Repo trading globally.
• IONs Repo Product Suites Anvil / eTrading / OMS.
• Agile working.
• Working in a complex and challenging IT environment.
• Problem solving skills to find efficient ways of driving progress and removing impediments.

Desirable:

• Technical skills in multiple development languages, operating systems and database architectures (Unix/Windows/Oracle/TCL)
• Experience of the Regulatory Framework governing SFT’s (MiFID, SFTR).
• Experience with vendor management.

Personal Competencies

Essential:

• Flexibility and ability to adapt easily to changing environments. Ability to work in a diverse and multi-cultural environment.
• A team player with a 'make it happen' mentality, eager to learn and ability to steer others towards delivering with excellence.

Desirable:

• Strong communication skills and presentation skills across different seniority levels.

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