Senior SimCorp GAIN Engineer

Accountabilities

You will lead hands-on engineering across a sophisticated GAIN Security Master environment, maintaining and improving its integrations, data models, and processing capabilities. Your responsibilities will include:

• Develop, configure, and maintain SimCorp GAIN Security Master solutions using GAIN Studio and Data Browser.
• Build and enhance data integrations from multiple upstream sources, including Bloomberg, BlackRock Aladdin, and internal systems.
• Develop and modify complex data transformation, normalization, cleansing, derivation, and validation rules.
• Investigate and reverse-engineer existing configurations to understand data flows and highly customized processing logic.
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues, including feed failures, transformation errors, and inconsistent security master data.
• Configure source-specific processing logic and maintain the integrity of instrument, issuer, attribute, and reference data.
• Build, configure, and maintain GAIN environments, including testing, production, and disaster recovery infrastructure.
• Support upstream and downstream integration changes as the wider investment technology transformation progresses.
• Collaborate with investment technology teams to deliver reliable and scalable Security Master capabilities.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through engineering, troubleshooting, knowledge sharing, and support for internal team development.
• Help establish stronger internal technical capabilities and reduce reliance on external specialist consultants.

Requirements

The ideal candidate is an experienced SimCorp GAIN specialist with substantial hands-on engineering expertise and the ability to independently manage complex technical challenges. Required qualifications include:

• Extensive and recent hands-on experience with SimCorp GAIN, ideally with several years of direct technical responsibility for the platform.
• Strong practical expertise in GAIN Studio, including developing, configuring, modifying, and troubleshooting solutions independently.
• Demonstrated experience with GAIN Security Master, including instruments, issuers, attributes, and reference data management.
• Hands-on proficiency with GAIN Data Browser for data investigation, analysis, and troubleshooting.
• Proven experience developing and maintaining upstream data feeds and integrations within GAIN.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end security data processing, including ingestion, parsing, normalization, cleansing, custom business rules, derivations, and downstream distribution.
• Ability to understand, troubleshoot, and modify complex existing GAIN configurations rather than relying exclusively on new implementations.
• Practical experience configuring or establishing GAIN environments and supporting their ongoing operation.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to work independently on challenging technical issues.
• Willingness to remain actively involved in development, configuration, and hands-on engineering rather than focusing solely on project management or high-level architecture.

Desirable qualifications:

• Experience integrating SimCorp GAIN with BlackRock Aladdin, Bloomberg, or other enterprise market data platforms.
• Familiarity with Bloomberg Back Office data feeds.
• Experience with GAIN Data Management Core (DMC), process context, and source-dependent processing.
• Previous involvement in large-scale investment platform migrations or complex enterprise data integration programs.
• Experience working directly for SimCorp or within a technically focused GAIN implementation or engineering team.
• Background in investment management, asset management, or capital markets technology.