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Description:
Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (‘‘Jefferies,’’ ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’ or ‘‘our’’) is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia.
Position / Group description:
The Risk Technology group builds and supports a global risk platform enabling the Risk Management group to oversee all areas of risk across the Firm. The risk platform provides capabilities for measuring, quantifying, analyzing, reporting, and controlling exposures across market and credit.
The position is for a Senior Developer who will be part of Risk Technology team. The developer will play a key role in major transformation projects involving the end-to-end build of a modern, highly scalable, risk platform.
The role will involve the design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of risk analytics, data modelling, reporting, and management systems. This will be executed by implementing system components; coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities; contributing to team meetings; troubleshooting issues and resolving production problems.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain BI dashboards, reports, and analytics solutions for risk management and business decision-making.
- Develop solutions using direct query BI platforms such as Astrato, Sigma, or similar tools.
- Design and optimize reporting data models using Snowflake or similar cloud data platforms.
- Partner with business, Risk, Technology, and Data Engineering teams to gather requirements and deliver insights.
- Leverage AI and code generation tools, such as Claude Code or similar platforms, to accelerate development, testing, and documentation.
- Implement custom UI integrations, embedded analytics, and workflow driven reporting capabilities as needed.
- Contribute to BI architecture, dashboard standards, performance tuning, governance, and analytics best practices.
Essential Experience/ Skills:
- Strong experience developing BI dashboards, reports, and analytics solutions.
- Hands-on experience with Astrato, Sigma, or similar direct-query BI platforms is preferred.
- Strong Snowflake experience, or equivalent cloud data platform expertise.
- Expertise in data modeling for reporting and analytics, including semantic layers, dimensional models, and performance optimization.
- Strong SQL skills, including complex queries, aggregations, joins, and query tuning.
- Experience using AI-assisted development and code generation tools for rapid prototyping, SQL, testing, and documentation.
- Experience with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar tools is preferred.
- Experience with custom UI integrations, embedded BI, APIs, JavaScript, React, HTML/CSS, or similar technologies preferred.
- Knowledge of SDLC practices, including Git, Jira, CI/CD, testing, code reviews, and release management.
- Experience with data quality, reconciliation, lineage, access controls, and reporting governance.
- Experience in market risk, credit risk, liquidity risk, regulatory reporting, or financial services technology preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, or similar discipline.
Personal Attributes:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to resolve complex data and reporting issues.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate business needs into BI solutions.
- Detail-oriented, with strong focus on data accuracy, usability, and presentation quality.
- Proactive in identifying risks, escalating issues, and following through to resolution.
- Strong time management and prioritization skills in a fast-paced environment.
At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.
Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer. We practice equal opportunity for all, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with qualified disabilities, as appropriate, under applicable law.
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About Us
Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.
At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.
Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.
