Duration: 12 months
Our industry leading investment banking client is looking for a Front Office Tactical Developer to join on a 12 month contract with the potential to extend further
Key Responsibilities
• Work as a business aligned RAD developer in our front office Technology team.
• Work on the enhancement and maintenance of the RAD FO reporting, market data contribution, risk and PnL framework.
• Use Rapid Application Development techniques for quick turn-around of high-profile projects.
Skills and Experience
• Previous experience of front-office risk and PnL support and development.
• Good understanding of equity products.
• Good knowledge of JAVA/C#/C++, Python, Excel / VBA, SQL (SQL Server, Oracle).
• Candidates with proven experience should also have had good exposure to Derivatives, ideally in a front-office facing role, and an in-depth understanding of the business.
Expertise
• Solid grasps of JAVA / .NET C#, with a good knowledge of its ecosystem.
• Highly motivated to work directly for a front-office IT team.
• Proactive and flexible approach to dealing with challenges.
• Strong communication and analytical skills – able to work with trading desks, business management, Quantitative Research and IT teams to build and deliver solutions.
• Analytical Skills – ability to follow complex quantitative concepts.
• Able to work independently and deliver when under pressure and time constraints.
• Acts with discipline.