REACT Lead, London

London, England, United Kingdom

6/30/2025

JOB PURPOSE:

To work on a North American investment management firm managing over $8 trillion capital offering advanced analytics and alternative and multi-asset investment solutions. Required to work with the client in building the analytical products and deploying/manage them in their Azure Cloud.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Needs to interact with the global financial clients regularly and will be responsible for final delivery of work including
• Translate client r equirements into actionable solutions.
• Understand the business requirements from the customers.
• Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members in a timely and clear fashion
• Communicate with relevant stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
• Guide the team to implement industry best practices.
• Design and implement the system from scratch & build enhancements, features request using Java and React
• Build prototype of application & solution as needed.
• Involve in both development & maintenance of the systems. Work collaboratively in a global setting, should be eager to learn new technologies.
• Provide support for any implemented solutions including incident, problem, and defect management, and appropriately cross train other members within ISD so that they are able to support the solutions.
• Responsible for extending and maintaining existing codebase with focus on quality, re-usability, maintainability and consistency
• Independently troubleshoot difficult and complex issues on production and other environments
• Demonstrate high attention to detail, should work in a dynamic environment whilst maintaining high quality standards, a natural aptitude to develop good internal working relationships and a flexible work ethic.
• Responsible for Quality Checks and adhering to the agreed Service Level Agreement (SLA) / Turn Around Time (TAT)
  
  

KEY COMPETENCIES:

• 7+ years of industry experience in software development using React with TypeScript or JavaScript. Including experience in building Trading platforms/ applications.
• Strong knowledge of React concepts such as hooks, error boundaries, component lifecycles, lazy loading and component memoization.
• Strong JavaScript knowledge including concepts such as higher order functions, closures and asynchronous programming.
• Proficiency with TypeScript and related concepts such as generic types and conditional types.
• Experience working with state management libraries such as Redux, ReCoil, MobX or Context API.
• Proficiency with libraries used with React, such as React Router DOM, Framer Motion and React
• Query/Tanstack Query
• Strong proficiency in using HTML5, CSS and SCSS.
• Having knowledge of OpenFin/ Electron is a plus.
• Development through all the stages of the project lifecycle.
• Having experience in Unit Testing with Jest as well as other similar frameworks.
• Having experience using testing frameworks such as React Testing Library and Enzyme.
• Good knowledge with SOA and Web Service standards (REST, JSON, SOAP, WSDL, WS-I Basic Profile), and IIS.
• Strong understanding of Functional Programming concepts, OOP, SOLID Principle and Design Patterns.
• Strong knowledge of version control systems such as Git.
• Experience and expertise in using Azure cloud services. Good understanding of Azure authentication, authorization, service principals, identity and Access Management.
• Working with users, senior management and stake holders across multiple disciplines.
• Mentoring and developing technical colleagues.
• Solid knowledge of Investment Banking services and business processes
• Solid knowledge of financial accounting and management accounting business processes.
• Experience in managing stakeholder expectations (client and project team) and generating relevant reports.
• Excellent project tracking and monitoring skills
• Good decision making and problem-solving skills.
• Adaptable, flexible and ability to prioritize and work in tight schedules.
• Ability to manage pressure, ambiguity and change.
• Good understanding of all knowledge areas in software development including requirement gathering, designing, development, testing, maintenance, quality control etc.
• Preferred experience with Agile methodology and knowledge of Financial Services/Asset Management
• Industry
• Ensure quality of deliverables within project timelines
• Independently manage daily client communication, especially over calls
• Drives the work towards completion with accuracy and timely deliverables.
• Capital markets knowledge is a must