Careers

Responsibilities & Duties

• Design and develop pricing and risk components for multiple asset classes, including forex, indices, commodities, shares and other derivatives
• Partner with other key groups: business operations, product development and the other IT teams. And ensure products are implemented efficiently and meet the demands both internally and externally and addressing any issues that arise
• Work with the front office users and business operations to address any issues
• Maintain personal/professional development to meet the changing demands of the role, including all relevant regulatory and legislative training
• Understand the nature of the trading floor business and respond quickly and efficiently to the issues that can or has caused business outage
• Creation of maintenance and reporting tools relevant to the product area as appropriate
• Ensure a positive approach to challenge and provide open and honest feedback
• Provide mentoring and training for junior members of the pricing and risk group
• Occasional requirement to work during the weekend for a product release
• Take all reasonable steps to ensure appropriate confidentiality

Requirements

• An appropriate track record of commercial experience in J2SE
• Good understanding of core financial concepts / mathematics and a strong interest in the area
• Excellent communication skills supporting an ability to adapt to the trading floor and the pressures of working closely with the business
• Experience of all aspects of the development lifecycle
• Experience of developing large scale systems
• Experience writing automated tests
• Financial knowledge from developing trading systems;
• Financial knowledge regarding developing trading systems
• Exposure to CEP Engines, or Event Driven Programming