About Phi Partners

Phi Partners is a global boutique Capital Markets IT consultancy with nearly two decades of experience providing expert services, technology and advisory to large financial institutions including investment banks and hedge funds on how to leverage technology to improve their operations and services.

Our specialisation in Front Office, Cloud, Risk and Data Analytics Technologies applied to capital markets has been a gateway into the world’s renowned financial institutions. Our ability to provide end-to-end solutions, from strategy development to technology implementation and ongoing support helps us provide tailored solutions that meet clients’ unique needs.

About the client

One of our clients is the Investment and Corporate Banking subsidiary of a highly reputed global Tier-1 bank with over 7000 employees in their service. One of the top five largest banks in North America, this institution manages assets of over $650bn and is renowned for being a trusted partner with a consistently high capital base and established presence in all the mature CapitalMarkets worldwide.

The bank is undertaking a transformative programme to modernize its trade and market data systems, building robust, scalable, cross-asset platforms. The initiative is driven by recent world-class appointments in senior technology and business management.

About the Programme

We are looking for a Java Developer to join a multi-year transformation programme modernizing a business-critical Trade Valuation and Market Data platform supporting Rates, Rates Credit, and XVA. The platform supports daily valuation and risk processes across global trading desks and is a core component of the bank’s front-to-back capital markets infrastructure, consolidating trade and market data from multiple Trading Books of Record (e.g. Murex) and upstream sources to support valuation, risk, and regulatory reporting.

The programme focuses on:

• Modernising a long-standing platform through progressive refactoring, code quality improvements, and consolidation
• Improving reliability, transparency, and operational resilience across trade and market data processing
• Enhancing system visibility with modern observability tools, improving metrics and incorporating data mining improvements

As part of the long-term vision, new components will be developed using modern Java on Linux, aligned with the bank’s roadmap for a unified, cross-asset pricing and risk framework. You will collaborate with experienced technologists across Phi Partners and the bank’s development teams in Toronto and Bucharest, gaining exposure to complex, high-impact systems at enterprise scale.

About the Role and Responsibilities

As a Java Developer, you will join a cross-location engineering team to modernise and enhance the bank’s trade data platform. Your responsibilities will include:

• Enhancing trade and market data ingestion pipelines, including support for new asset classes
• Designing, developing, and transforming old core platform components to improve performance and reliability
• Contributing to the bank’s strategic transition toward modern Java and Linux-based architecture
• Collaborating with the team across Toronto and Bucharest to deliver high-quality, production-ready solutions
• Following engineering best practices across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Utilizing Kubernetes and Containerization to build the platform

Key Skills

Must have:

• Strong hands-on experience with clean, testable and maintainable code using modern Java (17+)
• Experience with reactive web frameworks, Java WebFlux
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerization

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience in Capital Markets
• Experience with .NET / C#
• Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL

Next steps

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a world-class Capital Markets IT consultancy with nearly two decades of experience delivering high-impact technology solutions to some of the most prestigious financial institutions globally. At Phi Partners, you’ll work alongside highly skilled technologists, gain exposure to complex, enterprise-scale systems, and contribute to projects that directly shape the future of capital markets technology. If you are interested in this role, please share your CV with me [email protected] along with your availability for an introductory call so we can discuss further.