Senior Python Application Developer (Investment Banking & Risk Systems)

Be Part Of A High-Performing Team

Join a technology organization supporting a global financial institution and its investment banking operations. This team develops and maintains applications, risk platforms, and market-data integrations used across front-, middle-, and back-office functions. The environment is highly collaborative, bringing together developers, business users, analysts, project managers, infrastructure teams, DBAs, and application teams to deliver reliable technology solutions in a fast-paced financial environment.

What's In Store For You

• Engagement: W2 only (no C2C/1099)
  
• Hybrid opportunity based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
  
• Work on business-critical applications supporting investment banking and brokerage operations.
  
• Gain exposure to risk systems, market-data feeds, messaging platforms, APIs, and cloud technologies.
  
• Collaborate directly with both technical teams and business stakeholders across the organization.
  
• Long-term contract engagement spanning approximately 12 months.
  

How You Will Make An Impact

• Design, develop, test, maintain, and support software applications supporting brokerage and investment banking operations.
  
• Build and enhance applications primarily using Python and SQL, with exposure to C#/.NET.
  
• Develop and optimize complex SQL queries with an emphasis on performance, maintainability, and efficiency.
  
• Support risk systems, market-data feeds, and integrations between internal applications.
  
• Develop and maintain application integrations using messaging technologies and APIs.
  
• Partner with business users, business analysts, project managers, infrastructure engineers, database teams, and other development groups.
  
• Contribute to software architecture and system-design decisions for scalable and maintainable solutions.
  
• Manage development priorities across multiple initiatives and competing deadlines.
  

• 5–7 years of professional software development experience, ideally supporting brokerage or capital-markets environments.
  
• Hands-on development expertise with Python.
  
• Strong SQL development skills, including complex queries, query simplification, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
  
• Experience developing solutions supporting front-, middle-, or back-office brokerage functions.
  
• Strong understanding of algorithms, software-development methodologies, and application architecture.
  
• Ability to independently analyze technical problems, evaluate alternatives, and make sound development decisions.
  
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with both technical and business audiences.
  
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  
• Collaborative approach, strong work ethic, and ability to build productive relationships with stakeholders and senior management.
  
• Experience with IBM MQ or comparable messaging technology is preferred.
  
• Experience developing or integrating REST and SOAP APIs is preferred.
  
• Exposure to AWS and/or Azure is preferred.
  
• C#/.NET development and broader system architecture experience are valuable additional qualifications.