Team Overview:

The Risk Engineering Team are responsible for developing and maintaining the risk platforms in a
complex financial domain. This team are leaders of innovation making use of modern technology to
achieve business objectives and is integral to the organisation, delivering time-sensitive and business
critical functionality whilst working in close collaboration with risk specialists and other teams within
technology.

Responsibilities:
 Design, development and implementation of Big Data and Real Time applications
 Leading and educating the team on engineering best practices
 Evolution of the risk system for real time processing and scale-out to match business needs
 Work collaboratively with multi-disciplined delivery teams and build relationships with
business users and stakeholders
 Improve system’s reliability and monitoring
 

Essential Experience:
 Strong programming skills in at least one programming language (Java, Python, C++ etc.)
 Experience of working with distributed systems and messaging technologies (Kafka, Kinesis
or similar)
 Technical leadership, influencing people in the team
 Ability to pick up new skills in a fast-paced environment
 
Preferred Experience:
 Experience in designing data pipelines (DBT or similar)
 Stream processing related experience (e.g. Flink, Kafka Streams or similar)
 Experience with cloud, container and micro service infrastructures (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker,
Helm)
 

About Marshall Wace:

The technology team is lean and has a culture that encourages interaction across all areas of the
business on a global scale. Our aim is to use the best tool for the job therefore there is the opportunity
to be constantly learning and use modern technologies.

At Marshall Wace, all our teams strive to push boundaries and think innovatively creating an
environment that is fast paced, dynamic and successful. Click here to view our first open-source
project for a glimpse into our culture, projects and types of technologies we work with.