Job Description :
THE OPPORTUNITY
This role is an exceptional opportunity to advance and accelerate your technology career in high finance. It involves leading the software and systems development effort (on the Appian platform) for an established, fast-growing alternative finance start-up which provides unique, large size risk transfer solutions to global banks, asset managers, corporates, and other similarly situatued institutions. In this position, you will sit on the trading desk and collaborate daily with the firm''s team of highly motivated, experienced and talented individuals engaged in risk underwriting, deal structuring and execution, risk/portfolio management and analytics, finance/accounting, cash settlement operations, and new product development.
The company’s Appian platform will support transactions across all strategies and phases, including deal origination, underwriting, execution, and closing, and will provide a single source of truth for deal information and related operational workflows. Your high impact contributions as a developer will rely upon your analysis of existing business processes and requirements and your ability to quickly and effectively design and implement solutions in Appian.
The role offers high visibility for an ambitious and highly-driven developer in a collaborative, fast-paced, high-stakes, merit-based environment that offers tremendous career advancement opportunities and highly competitive pay.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS, DUTIES AND PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES
· Analyst: Consult with business stakeholders to understand business objectives and processes, and identify friction points and opportunities for automation; translate and design the Appian process models and solutions based on a deep understanding of business objectives and process requirements
· Architect: Optimize existing systems to bring together multiple sources of data as a single ‘source of truth’ within Appian
· Developer: Leverage analysis to build high-impact applications in Appian in support of all aspects of the business
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
· Experience designing and implementing applications within Appian, including Appian Sites, Appian Tempo, Records, Application Servers and MS SQL Server
· Hands-on experience must include: Design of UI SAIL Forms for Site and Tempo environment; Design of custom data types (CDTs) that interact with external databases; Development of Records and Reports using SAIL; Use of Appian Plugins for use in SAIL and process models; Ability to traverse logs to determine system and development errors; Build/consumption of web services in Appian; Design of expression rules, constants, and query rules
· Essential Technologies: Appian, Java, Python, SQL, SAIL, Power BI, Excel, HTML/XML, and similar
· Working knowledge of analytics and visualization platforms, such as Power BI, a plus
· Experience in finance is a plus (especially private equity, bonds, loans, CLOs, other capital markets)
COMPENSATION
· A competitive package including annual salary and incentive bonus
EDUCATION
· B.S. in Computer Science or Computer Engineering preferred; other related engineering and technical disciplines considered
COMPANY DESCRIPTION:
Our client has grown to become a leading provider of comprehensive insurance protection and other structured solutions across a wide range of complex financial, economic, credit, and investment products and exposures.
Backed by a panel of 20+ global (re)insurers, the company delivers large-scale, custom-tailored, risk and investment solutions for a range of client needs, including risk transfer, capital relief, balance sheet solutions, large scale investments, legacy position reduction/inventory management and “tall tree” exposure mitigation.
A focus on complex opportunities has enabled the company to become a market leader in designing bespoke coverage for risks that do not naturally fit within existing insurance or bank offerings.
Long-standing clients and partners include large corporates, financial institutions such as banks, insurers, and high-profile asset managers as well as governmental entities.
The company’s team has extensive experience in the fields of underwriting, deal structuring, complex credit risk assessment, capital and global risk program management, which allows for constant innovation, flexibility, and most importantly, timely delivery of executable transactions.