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You'll support both our clients, who include Tier 1 banks, and our internal product team.\nWhat you'll do\nOwn and resolve technical requests from clients and internal stakeholders, often to tight deadlines\nStructure the technical data for complex, exotic and novel trades so the platform can process them\nBuild and extend the platform's initialization, enrichment, validation and document-generation layers. You might adapt existing code and precedents, develop our in-house applications (including user interfaces and agentic AI tools), or design new approaches where none exist\nBecome an expert in how data moves between the platform's layers. 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