Java Software Engineer

About Phi Partners Phi Partners has been a trusted capital markets consultancy for more than 20 years, providing quantitative and technology expertise across front office, pricing and risk. We support more than 80 financial institutions across the buy-side and sell-side through niche capabilities spanning quant, engineering, vendor platforms and cloud infrastructure. Our teams work on complex, real-world problems across models, analytics, applications, data and cloud infrastructure, within an international delivery organisation built around regional hubs and specialist centres of excellence. For people who enjoy technically demanding work in capital markets, Phi offers the opportunity to work closely with expert colleagues and major financial institutions on high-value, business-critical initiatives. About the Programme One of our clients is a leading European corporate and investment bank with a substantial global markets franchise, operating across front-office, risk and post-trade technology from its Paris technology hub. Phi Partners is supporting the bank's Transaction Regulatory Reporting team for listed derivatives and OTC collateral, within the booking and post-trade function of its Global Markets & Risks IT division. The team produces the bank's regulatory transaction reports across multiple jurisdictions, including MiFID II / MiFIR and EMIR Refit, as well as Asia Pacific regimes such as HKMA, MAS and JFSA, and is building a new solution for its regulatory reports. The team works across Paris and Porto under the direction of a project leader, combining project delivery for new and evolving regulations with ownership of the daily production run. Roles and Responsibilities We are looking for a Java developer with hands-on regulatory reporting experience to design, build and support the team's reporting components, working in close collaboration with colleagues in Paris and Porto. You will be:
• Designing, developing and maintaining regulatory reporting software, contributing to the evolution and implementation of new regulatory reporting solutions.
• Supporting regulatory change initiatives, implementing new regulations and adapting existing reporting functionality across multiple jurisdictions.
• Translating regulatory requirements into technical specifications, defining implementation approaches and validating proposed changes with development teams in Paris and Porto.
• Analysing and resolving application issues, debugging complex technical problems and implementing fixes to restore functionality and prevent recurring incidents.
• Supporting production incident management, working closely with production teams to investigate issues, identify root causes and deliver timely resolutions.
• Performing daily production monitoring and operational checks, ensuring reporting processes, scheduled deliveries and day-to-day application activities are running correctly.
• Managing development and UAT environments, coordinating deployments, configuration changes and environment readiness throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Working within Agile and CI/CD practices, contributing to iterative development, testing, integration and controlled delivery of regulatory reporting changes. Key Skills The ideal candidate will have:
• Strong Java engineering expertise across Spring Boot, Spring Core, Spring Batch and Spring Data, with Hibernate/JPA and REST API development
• Experience developing regulatory transaction reporting solutions within capital markets, including MiFID II and EMIR Refit requirements
• Functional knowledge of listed derivatives and OTC collateral, including their regulatory reporting requirements
• Strong Oracle SQL skills, with additional exposure to SingleStore and large-scale data processing
• CI/CD & Release Management: Working knowledge of Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Maven, Sonar, XL Release, XL Deploy and Control-M scheduling
• Strong grounding in object-oriented design, SOLID principles and established design patterns across Linux, Windows and OpenShift environments
• Autonomous and detail-oriented approach, with strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with technical and business stakeholders
• Fluent English communication
• Desireable: Exposure to C#, Angular and Asia-Pacific regulatory reporting regimes, including HKMA, MAS and JFSA Next steps This is an excellent opportunity to establish yourself within a rapidly expanding consultancy firm working on a key client in a long-term quantitative front-office project. The right professional can grow their managerial and leadership abilities while continuing to actively contribute in a hands-on technical manner. The role provides exposure to one of the most critical teams of our client and an opportunity to work alongside high-profile financial experts and world class engineers from across the world. If you are interested in the opportunity, kindly send a copy of your up-to-date CV via email to ashutosh.pawar@phipartners.com. We look forward to having a call to discuss this in more detail at your earliest.