Python Developer (Financial Markets)

Job Description

Our Client is a major player in the financial markets sector and is looking to further strengthen their foothold. They have introduced an exciting project to better grasp useful analytical data, in order for them to serve and understand the market better than the competition.

Python Developer (Financial Markets), Zurich, Switzerland

This role is a great opportunity for an experienced Python Developer that is not only looking to test and improve their development skills, but to also exercise strong business acumen within the financial markets sector.

Their young, dynamic and entrepreneurial team are eager to see what skills you can bring, as their main focus is pushing each other to exceed expectations with their diverse and experienced skillset.

Responsibilities as Python Developer (Financial Markets):

• Assuming main responsibility, and the subject matter expert around the development of a financial market analytics portal.
• Working directly with other developers as well as financial market experts and senior business stakeholders in order to co-ordinate their needs from a software development perspective.

Requirements Necessary for the role of Python Developer:

Having experience within financial markets and a clear understanding of financial market data is essential to this role.

• Have a minimum 3 years of Python experience on analytics and/or big data environments, working on data processing and systems integration tasks.
• You are comfortable working with SQL databases. Oracle expertise is an advantage (Expertise with NoSQL databases also an additional advantage).
• Have a minimum of 2 years of browser/web tech development: React(preferred) or Vue, Flask(preferred) or Django.
• Have worked with the Kafka platform or similar data store's (Spark and Cassandra/InfluxDB/other high volume/dynamic data store are also advantageous to have).
• Are educated to degree level (or equivalent) in maths/statistics/science or engineering.
• Strong communication skills and a high standard of English is essential, German would be considered a plus.

If you would like more information regarding this Python Developer (Financial Markets) role or if you would like to make a direct application feel free to send your application to craig.shoebridge@emearecruitment.eu.