Application Development Lead

In this excting new role you will be responsible for delivering strategic, scalable change for the Commodities & Global Markets, Americas group.

Commodities and Global Markets provides clients with an integrated, end-to-end offering across global markets including equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, and commodities. This is a great opportunity to work closely with key business stakeholders in a fast-paced trading environment to understand the domain and provide solutions that enable continued growth of the business and the team.

You will be a seasoned technology lead with a track record in partnering with and influencing senior stakeholders to deliver innovative and scalable solutions, particularly Energy Trading and Risk Management.

Think strategically but have a strong commercial focus and are committed to realizing exceptional value for our business.

Your role will entail forging strong working relationships with Front/Mid/Back-office stakeholders as well as technology teams across the world.

You will have:

• Software engineering background in Java with applied exposure to cloud native technologies, preferably AWS
• proven technical architecture and solution design skills
• a bias towards strategic thinking and transformational change delivery
• delivery orientation, quickly and incrementally moving our architecture towards the desired target state
• the ability to quickly grasp complex business problems and design holistic and robust solutions
• exceptional ability to influence, create alignment and effect change with senior stakeholders across both technology and the business
• refined experience of managing technical teams in both the on-site and remote environments.

In addition, the following would be advantageous but are not essential:

• Commodities product knowledge, especially energy products
• software delivery management in a Front Office environment
• exposure to data architecture, data platforms and data analytics tools.

If this sounds like you please apply via the link!

About the Corporate Operations Group

The Corporate Operations Group brings together specialist support services in Digital Transformation & Data, Technology, Operations, Human Resources, Business Services, Business Improvement & Strategy, and the Macquarie Group Foundation. We deliver service excellence to ensure Macquarie is open for business, deliver on transformational change, invest in our people and have deep relationships with our customers. 

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