PolyPath Market Risk Technology Specialist (Java/Python)
Banco Santander, S.A.7 days ago
Base Salary
$175k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Support and enhance PolyPath capabilities used for pricing, valuation, trading, and market risk workflows.
- Translate market risk and fixed income requirements into scalable technical solutions with business, risk, model, and technology teams.
- Support sensitivities, stress testing, scenario analysis, VaR, pricing, valuation, risk data, and market data workflows.
- Develop, enhance, troubleshoot, and integrate applications and scripts using Python and Java.
- Analyze system issues, performance bottlenecks, data discrepancies, and production incidents across PolyPath and downstream risk systems.
- Support migration, modernization, integration, automation, monitoring, alerting, and issue-resolution initiatives.
- Collaborate with front-office, risk, finance, infrastructure, application development, model validation, and quantitative teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military service, or education.
- Expert-level knowledge of PolyPath.
- Strong experience in market risk, preferably in banking or capital markets.
- Strong programming skills in Python and Java.
- Solid understanding of fixed income products, pricing, valuation, and risk analytics.
- Experience supporting risk models, valuation tools, pricing engines, or market risk platforms.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex system, data, and pricing issues across multiple technology platforms.
- Experience in a large banking, financial services, or regulated financial institution environment.
- Preferred experience includes 10+ years in banking, capital markets, financial technology, or market risk technology.
- Preferred knowledge of structured fixed income products, including MBS, CMO, ABS, and securitized products.
- Preferred understanding of pricing, valuation, sensitivities, stress testing, VaR, scenario analysis, yield curves, risk factors, and market data.
- Preferred experience with APIs, messaging frameworks, batch processes, data pipelines, real-time or high-volume capital markets platforms, production support, issue management, and root-cause analysis.
Benefits
- Base pay is listed as $175,000 to $220,000 annually, with benefits supporting employees, families, and well-being.
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work full time in the United States without requiring employer sponsorship to commence employment.
- The employer provides an inclusive and accessible application process and reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
- The role requires frequent minimal physical effort such as sitting, standing, and walking, with occasional light equipment or furniture moving depending on location.