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

Contract DevOps Engineer - Anvil & Repo Trading Expert

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 ProfileQualification/Education Essential:Educated to degree level.
Desirable:CFA.
Skills/ ExperienceEssential: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 CompetenciesEssential: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.