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The ICOS Development team within our Index business is responsible for the application development and maintenance of key components of the index calculation platform.
The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in Python development, hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and a strong understanding of serverless architecture patterns. While familiarity with Oracle PL/SQL is beneficial, the primary focus of this role is designing and building scalable, cloud-native solutions using Python within a modern data and application ecosystem.
You will strengthen the ICOS Development team by designing and implementing serverless, event-driven, and microservices-based architectures on GCP. This includes developing and maintaining cloud-native applications, data processing pipelines, and APIs using services such as Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Storage. You will play a key role in evolving system and data architecture within a complex business process and data warehouse environment, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient.
Tasks/Responsibilities
Designing and developing Python-based services and FastAPI-driven APIs in a GCP environment
Building and maintaining serverless applications and event-driven integrations
Implementing and optimizing data architectures leveraging BigQuery and other managed GCP services
Contributing to CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices
Implementation of complex business rules and index concepts
Mentor and coach team members in Python best practices, cloud-native design on GCP, and serverless architecture patterns, fostering high code quality and scalable solution design
Maintenance and design of a complex & challenging data warehouse environment
Technical design documentation
Design and execution of test strategies
Provide 1st line/2nd line application support primarily for the ICOS systems
Qualifications/Required Skills
Python mastery: Deep understanding of design patterns, OOP, and Pythonic code
FastAPI expertise: 4+ years building high-performance APIs
Data processing: Expert-level Pandas, Polars, NumPy and optimization techniques for large datasets
Cloud platforms: Hands-on with GCP (preferred), AWS, or Azure including containerization, Cloud functions/serverless compute
Database proficiency: Excellent Oracle PLSQL and RDBMS experience (Oracle)
Scheduling: Experience with Control-M or other scheduling tools
ETL knowledge : Exposure with Informatica Powercenter
Business domain : Indexing knowledge beneficial
Deployment : Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
A high motivation to support and operate a complex & challenging data warehouse environment
Excellent analytical skills
Proficiency in written and spoken English
Additionally, you need to be a team player with good communication skills, highly motivated, flexible and show willingness to learn and adopt new technologies quickly.
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About ISS STOXX
ISS STOXX GmbH is a leading provider of research and technology solutions for the financial market. Established in 1985, we offer top-notch benchmark and custom indices globally, helping clients identify investment opportunities and manage portfolio risks. Our services cover corporate governance, sustainability, cyber risk, and fund intelligence. Majority-owned by Deutsche Börse Group, ISS STOXX has over 3,400 professionals in 33 locations worldwide, serving around 6,400 clients, including institutional investors and companies focused on ESG, cyber, and governance risk. Clients trust our expertise to make informed decisions for their stakeholders' benefit.
STOXX® and DAX® indices comprise a global and comprehensive family of more than 17,000 strictly rules-based and transparent indices. Best known for the leading European equity indices EURO STOXX 50®, STOXX® Europe 600 and DAX®, the portfolio of index solutions consists of total market, benchmark, blue-chip, sustainability, thematic and factor-based indices covering a complete set of world, regional and country markets. STOXX and DAX indices are licensed to more than 550 companies around the world for benchmarking purposes and as underlyings for ETFs, futures and options, structured products, and passively managed investment funds. STOXX Ltd., part of the ISS STOXX group of companies, is the administrator of the STOXX and DAX indices under the European Benchmark Regulation.
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