What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Market Risk Developer – Historical Timeseries (Contract) position at ION Group?
The position is for a Techno-Functional Developer to design, enhance, and maintain the Market Risk Time Series infrastructure built on Snowflake and AWS. This role requires strong technical skills combined with deep domain expertise in market risk, including VaR, end-of-day market data, and historical time series. The candidate will work closely with the Market Data team and Risk stakeholders to ensure accurate, scalable, and auditable data solutions for risk analytics.
\n- Data Sourcing & Integration
- Data Quality & Remediation
- Infrastructure Development
- Collaboration & Governance
- 7 years of hands-on experience in developing applications using Relational Databases and Big-data platforms.
- Strong Python (pandas, numpy, data engineering best practices).
- Advanced SQL and Snowflake (warehouse management, streams/tasks, query optimization).
- Market risk concepts: VaR, SVaR, sensitivities, stress testing.
- Handling end-of-day market data and historical time series across asset classes.
- Ability to translate risk requirements into technical solutions and data contracts.
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar technical discipline
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex data related issues
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Self-starter and entrepreneurial in approach
- Ability to escalate and follow-up proactively
- Good time management skills
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