Vice President, Sr Software Engineer (Capital Markets)

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG's shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.


In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization's extensive global network. The Group's operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.


The anticipated salary range for this role is between $158,000.00 and $205,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.



Role Description


Design, develop and maintain decision support systems focused on evaluating finance operations such as trading and investment, credit, market risk and deal underwriting. Determine appropriate models to apply for the supported business function. Develop connection protocols and APIs to import data from various sources such as databases, trading platforms and market data services.



Role Objectives: Delivery


Create, develop and maintain decision support systems focused on evaluating finance operations such as trading and investment, credit, market risk and deal underwriting. Determine appropriate models to apply for the supported business function and set evaluation and error-checking systems. Develop connection protocols and APIs to import data from various sources such as databases, trading platforms and market data services. Create scripts to automate data import and formatting jobs. Create reporting tools and evaluation metrics to analyze system function and recommendation performance. Implement revisions based on analysis.



Role Objectives: Interpersonal


Work with business units and trading desks to evaluate their current analytical process and identify areas that present opportunities to be improved by decision support systems. Collaborate with quantitative analysis team to select and develop models based on business needs. Partner with application development team to create application features and functions, API and connectivity protocols, and reporting tools. Engage with database administration team to store and secure data for analysis, design jobs to import and standardize data, and monitor data for errors and inconsistencies.



Role Objectives: Expertise


Exhibit deep understanding of financial modeling and analytical frameworks and their application to different business functions. Demonstrate expertise with data processing and aggregation tools and platforms and how to integrate those with current business processes. Apply knowledge of current market data services and trading platform methods for automated data collection and standardization methods. Show understanding of different data storage techniques, such as relational databases and data warehouses, and methods of integrating multiple datasets for use with complex analytical models.



Qualifications and Skills

• Hands-on development with Java as the primary language; experience with Java 17
• Experience from working in the pricing and risk domain in investment banking
• In-depth knowledge in Rates products
• Strong fundamental Computer Science knowledge including Concurrency; Algorithms and data structures
• Proactive self-starter who is able to take initiative and roll up sleeves to get things done
• Scrum/agile methodology
• Evidence of delivering application from inception, to design, and to production
• Extensive experience of test driven development
• Knowledge of CI/CD on large complex systems Recommended years of experience: 7

Additional Requirements


SMBC's employees participate in a Hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home, as well as, from an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location. Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process. Hybrid work may not be permitted for certain roles, including, for example, certain FINRA-registered roles for which in-office attendance for the entire workweek is required.


SMBC provides reasonable accommodations during candidacy for applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please let us know at [email protected].