A global investment banking organization is identifying candidates for several positions in its rapidly expanding Commodities IT Derivatives group. This team is currently undertaking a long-term investment project with the goal of significantly improving the derivatives architecture through evolution, complete redesigns, or the development of new tools -all work will involve the use of best practices, in order to ensure that the systems grow in a scalable & extendable manner.

Responsibilities:

• All aspects of software delivery; including analysis, requirements gathering, design, development, testing and deployment.
• Developing solutions that fit with the strategic direction of the group, making use of current components and delivering new core components
• Full lifecycle responsibility, delivery to the business and handover to the support team.
• All aspects of third line technical support on a rotational basis

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Engineering from a top university
• Full lifecycle development experience in delivery solutions to a trading desk
• Proficiency in C# typically acquired by 2 years development experience
• Ability to work closely with traders in a demanding environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with Commodities Derivatives
• Significant and relevant experience of delivering strategic risk solutions to an exotics derivatives business
• Exotic Derivatives & Risk Knowledge (inclusive of second order greeks)
• Familiar with Crude Oil and US Natural Gas markets
• Quantitative modeling
• VB, VBA, Excel

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The Business Analyst is responsible for (1) Documenting user requirements, (2) Business analysis and functional specification, (3) Prototyping, (4) Testing, and (5) Project Management.

Required Qualifications:

• Degree from a top university
• Full lifecycle development experience in delivery solutions, preferably to a trading desk
• Interacting directly with derivative traders and risk managers
• Experience implementing quantitative models.
• Understands derivative instruments, Greek sensitivities, and market data modeling
• Proven track record of delivery
• Ability to work closely with traders in a demanding environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Commodities Derivatives
• Quantitative modeling
• Significant and relevant experience of delivering strategic risk solutions to an exotics derivatives business
• Big 4 Consulting Background
• History of delivering strategic risk tools including scenario analysis, PL explained and price testing solutions.
• Exotic Derivatives & Risk Knowledge (inclusive of second order greeks)
• Familiar with Crude Oil and US Natural Gas markets
• VB, VBA, Excel

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Responsibilities:

• All aspects of software delivery; including analysis, requirements gathering, design, development, testing and deployment.
• Developing solutions that fit with the strategic direction of the group, making use of current components and delivering new core components
• Full lifecycle responsibility, delivery to the business and handover to the support team.
• All aspects of third line technical support on a rotational basis
• Hands-on leadership managing team of 3 – 5 developers

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree (preferably with distinction) in Computer Science or Engineering
• Full lifecycle development experience in delivery solutions to a trading desk
• Proven track record of delivering large-scale in-house risk management systems across a distributed framework providing intra-day and EOD Risk.
• "Hands-on" leadership running a team of 3-5 developers coding in C#.
• Interacting directly with derivative traders and risk managers
• Experience implementing quantitative models.
• Ability to work closely with traders in a demanding environment.
• Expertise in C# typically acquired by 3n- 5 years development experience
• Understanding of derivative instruments, Greek sensitivities, and market data modeling

Preferred Qualifications:

• Commodities Derivatives
• Significant and relevant experience of delivering strategic risk solutions to exotics derivatives business
• History of delivering strategic risk tools including scenario analysis, P&L explained and price testing solutions.
• Exotic Derivatives & Risk Knowledge (inclusive of second order greeks)
• Familiar with Crude Oil and US Natural Gas markets
• Quantitative modeling
• VB, VBA, Excel

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A global investment banking organization is seeking a Senior Developer with strong technical and communications skills for its Commodities Oil trading system development team which is responsible for delivering trading systems and solutions for the Oil trading desks.

This position Interacts at all levels with a number of business and technology groups/users including Trading, Trade Support and the Application Support. The ideal candidate will be able to work well with team distributed all around the globe, and be flexible in regards to working hours as and when required to ensure meetings/releases and other activities are completed as the business dictates.

Working within an agile development lifecycle this front office development role involves work from inception to delivery of components for the Trading Desk. The main development areas are: 1) Investment in existing system capacity and performance, 2) Order and Price Routing, 3) Electronic Trade Capture, 4) Trade Execution and Management, 5) Position Management, and 6) Monitoring and Control framework.

The Oil development team works exclusively on a windows platform, this is primarily C# (.Net 2 Server, .Net 1.1 Client) for new developments with an existing code base comprising of C++ core components, VB6 legacy COM, JAVA and C#. SQL Server 2000 is used extensively as are the middleware technologies Smartsockets and IBM MQ Series.

Responsibilities:

• Working within the software development cycle this role covers Analysis, Design, Coding, System testing, Deployment and 3rd line support for the application management team
  
• Translate business requirements into software and balance use of new technology, rapid development, and reusability.
• Provide and maintain technology that allows the trading desk to execute faster, have better market knowledge and better decision tools than our competitors. This will involve developing new applications, services and websites and extending existing applications to support new products and markets.
• Frequently interact with the Application Management team and users for investigation and resolution of complex problems, as well as other development teams.
• Develop applications using the Commodities development standards, which include ensuring builds are performed on the Build Server, that test coverage levels are met and that production releases follow the change management standards.

Required Qualifications:

• Numerate degree – Science, Math, Engineering or Computing
• Experience with at least one of the following:
  • Trading Fundamentals/Commodities Trading
  • Electronic Trading applications, Order Management and Trade Capture
  • Position Management
  • Derivatives knowledge
  • Oil business knowledge (e.g refining, transportation, products, market participants)
  • Commodities and Commodity Derivatives (Swaps, Futures, Options)
• Development on windows server and workstation
• N-Tier / Service Orientated Architecture on Windows platform
• MS SQL Server development in a multi user environment
• Excel/VBA
• C#
• MS SQL Server
• XML/XSLT/XSD
• Web Services
• Experience developing under source control, unit-testing components to the required level of coverage
• Understand concepts of security, auditing and support requirements of applications and demonstrates the ability to escalate issues to management in a timely fashion
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment and tackle and overcomes challenges.

Preferred Qualifications:

• C++, C#,VB.NET, ATL/COM, .Net Interop, Java, VB6
• Design Patterns, Clearcase
• Openlink, Exchange connectivity e.g FIX 4.2
• Sybase and Oracle
• Development in an continuous Integration and Unit Testing environment
• ASP.NET, Winforms
• Messaging – e.g. Tibco RV, Smartsockets, MQ
• Understand basic design terms and design documentation (e.g. UML)
• Working in a trading environment with rapidly changing requirements and priorities
• Communications with trading personnel including gathering requirements and problem solving
• Discuss design issues and problems with conflicting technical/business requirements
• Ability to identify and communicate improvements to the development process
• Lead technical innovation and adoption of new processes / tools within the team
• Track pro

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We are seeking a hands-on Senior RAD Developer/Build Manager to support risk, pricing, and booking applications for the emerging markets exotics trading desk at a leading global investment banking organization in NYC. The ideal candidate will have 7-10 years experience building technology solutions for exotic trading, managing a small team of developers and will have worked specifically on an exotics desk at a major financial institution. This role requires both hands on development as well as team management and leadership. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in an exciting, fast past environment and handling multiple priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day support of trading risk, booking applications and pricing infrastructure
• Expand current technologies to facilitate business product coverage expansion
• Liaise with other core development teams
• Assist with standardization of Front Office technologies
• Support of Risk and Product control groups
• Build out the functionality required for new products
• Provide the technical guidance on solutions

Qualifications:

• In depth knowledge of Rates Markets and exotic products
• Strong understanding of risk measures, risk calculation
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Strong VBA, VB skills
• Experience with C++, JAVA, .NET, C #
• Excellent team management and communication skills
• Ability to prioritize on the fly and support a fast paced trading environment
• Must be willing to sit on the trading floor in direct support of the day-to-day activities and needs of the desk
• Ability to direct resources on implementation of new technologies and projects
• Experience in Investment Banking, Financial Institution highly preferred

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We are seeking an experienced Senior C++/UNIX Developer to develop a framework to structure mortgage-backed securities for a leading global financial institution in NYC. The applications developed and supported model mortgage and bond cashflows, providing bond sizing, pricing and other functionality to structurers and traders. The successful candidate will contribute to large C++ development effort and must be able to quickly understand mortgage loan characteristics and RMBS deal semantics.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, engineering or mathematical background
• Experience with a securitization API or modeling language
• Experience with fixed income analytics
• Experience developing on UNIX and Windows platforms
• Experience developing large-scale C++ applications
• Professional Level C++
• Familiar with mortgage products
• Understand basics of securitization

Preferred Qualifications:

• Intex products (or equivalent): CMO subroutines and DealMaker
• Implementing numerical solvers or simulations
• Parsing (lex/yacc or equivalent) and code generation
• Perl, Python or other high level scripting
• Collateral and bond cashflow analysis
• Experience in Investment Banking, Financial

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We are seeking an experienced C++ Developer with C#, .NET, STL expertise to develop and maintain the core functionality of the trading platform for Fixed Income traders at a leading global investment banking organization. This NYC based position is also responsible for working on C++ server and client side components and on C# client GUI. The incumbent is expected to carry out all steps of the development lifecycle. In addition, this position participates in technical discussions within the development team and is responsible for communicating any issues that have a project-wide scope to the necessary level of management.

The successful candidate will have excellent verbal communication skills and be able to communicate effectively with other development team members, project members, managers and users, and adjust the communications based on the technical knowledge of the audience. The successful candidate is highly self-motivated and able to work in a fast paced environment.

Qualifications Required:

• Computer Science degree or equivalent
• Previous commercial experience as analyst/developer
• Strong problem solving skills
• 5+ years experience with C++, STL
• Experience with relational databases (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server)
• Good exposure to multi-threaded programming.

Qualifications Preferred:

• Experience with server-side programming, messaging and inter-process communication
• Development of large distributed software systems
• Fixed income, rates experience
• Knowledge of Fixed Income / business / Investment Banking experience
• Intermediate level C# / .NET (Windows Forms and server-side, but not ASP.NET)
• Preferably .NET2
• Java (server-side)

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We are seeking a C# Developer with solid OOP experience and design skills for the development of risk applications for market risk managers at a leading global financial institution in NYC. Applications may involve complex mathematical modeling and simulation techniques, reports, and feeds to and from risk and Front Office systems. Continued development is required to ensure that systems implement the very latest methodologies and techniques.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with technical leads and other developers to design new solutions in the new service-oriented Market Risk architecture.
• Implement and test technical solutions from specifications to both new and existing systems.
• Troubleshoot performance and functional problems.
• Perform detailed analysis on technical and functional requirements.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Mathematics, Science or Computer Science
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and proactively
• Demonstrated ability to build productive working relationships with other IT groups, business users and support teams.
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Strong verbal communication skills
• 5+ years experience in C# including WPF, WCF, multi-threading and experience in an enterprise environment.
• Strong application database knowledge (on any enterprise-standard database platform) including stored procedure writing; ADO; schema design; performance investigation and tuning
• Solid OOP experience and design skills
• Excellent understanding of the full SDLC lifecycle including both waterfall and iterative methodologies
• General understanding of the finance markets and environment; willingness and capacity to learn complex financial concepts
• Solid Oracle experience desirable
• General understanding of basic risk management principles and specific product knowledge of any of the following: FX, commodities, debt products, credit derivatives, other derivative products is desirable

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We are seeking a Developer with strong Derivatives Analytics skills and prior experience developing Derivative Risk, P& L and Pricing systems for a leading global investment banking organization. This position is part of a team responsible for IT projects supporting the Emerging Markets (EM) trading desk which includes development, support and deployment of an EM risk and P&L system used in satellite offices, and coordination and collaboration with other IT teams regarding EM requirements on other systems.

Responsibilities:

• Provide quantitative business support for IR derivatives and exotics, both support and development.
• Liaise with users to support existing products on the strategic IR exotics system.
• Develop in C#/JAVA/VBA minor enhancements to existing products and new products as they arise. Development will focus on enhancements of existing trade capture, risk and P&L systems used by the Front Office and Product control group.
• Provide front line support of IT systems to traders and product controllers.
• Diagnosis of problems including investigating numerical queries on valuation and risk figures.
• Management of user acceptance testing on: new implementations; software releases; configuration changes.

Minor development tasks will also arise typically for maintenance of systems and enhancements. Typically this would require good business knowledge and C#/VBA skills.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Scientific or Mathematic Discipline.
• Strong in Derivatives Analytics
• Previous experience in development or support of Derivative Risk, P&L and Pricing systems.
• Ability to liaison direct with Front Office, specifically to compile requirements specifications
• Valuation testing/reconciliation between systems
• Excellent analysis skills
• Mathematical and intuitive understanding of IR derivs products.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Methodical, aptitude for effective testing of systems
• Practical understanding of development best practices.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to change.
• Reasonable C# technical skills
• Some JAVA or VB.NET experience
• Previous experience working in technology for an investment bank
• Flexibility to work on multiple projects, potentially across multiple languages

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