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From: "Rob Vens" rob@sepher.nl Date: 4 janvier 2008 15:45:17 HNEC To: rob@sepher.nl Cc: james.tilley@cititec.com Subject: [Esug-list] Smalltalk position (UK based)
Following is the job description. Please respond if you are interested to:
James Tilley Financial Markets
Cititec Associates Limited
50 Featherstone Street , London, EC1Y 8RT
t +44 (0) 20 7608 5858
d +44 (0) 20 7608 5813
f +44 (0) 20 7608 5888
james.tilley@cititec.com
XXX is one of the world's leading banks as measured by client franchise, product breadth, geographic reach and revenues. The firm provides clients with a full range of investment banking and commercial banking products and services. It advises on corporate strategy and structure, raising and placing capital, making markets in financial instruments and offering sophisticated risk management tools and strategies. XXX is a world leader in derivatives trading and product innovation, with structured derivative products being a particular speciality. That means we need world class technologists in what is a complex, ever-changing business domain, where speed-to-market of technology solutions is often the driver of technology spend and decision-making.
IB Tech Exotics and Hybrids and Retail Structured Products Technology provides end to end technology solutions for the structuring, sales, trading and processing of all Rate Derivative, Credit Derivative and Equity Derivative products traded in the Investment Bank. These solutions include client facing pricing tools, sophisticated trader risk management tools and models, trade management and settlement systems and accounting engines. Products within scope include interest rate derivatives, interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, collateral debt obligations, equity derivatives, foreign exchange, commodity products, and their related derivative instruments. Kapital The candidate will be a member of a development team responsible for the support and enhancement of the Kapital risk management system in London. Kapital supports the non-vanilla fixed income derivatives, credit hybrids derivatives, FX derivatives, and multi asset derivatives businesses. It is a global system, deployed locally in London, New York, and Asia Pacific. It stores the prime records for a vast range of instruments (all of which can be arbitrarily combined within a single deal). These include the simplest fees, swaps, caps, floors, and credit default swaps through to the most complex multi-asset derivatives such as FX Turbo Swaps, Interest Rate and FX Range Notes, and credit hybrids basket derivatives.
Role The role will require the candidate to develop detailed knowledge of both derivatives trading businesses and OO development. The team is co-located with the business, and hence requires team members to have strong communication skills.
The candidate will be working closely with front and middle office users to define and document requirements. Requirements will mostly center on a detailed and technical aspect of derivatives risk management. They will initially be only high level. The successful applicant will be expected to be comfortable working with quants and traders to efficiently refine these initial requirements into a deliverable specification. The developers are responsible for developing, testing and delivering the specification using an agile programming approach resulting in software delivered on time and in budget.
The applications delivery environment is highly object oriented and written entirely in Smalltalk. If necessary, the applicant will be expected to learn Smalltalk quickly and subsequently begin delivering software to the business as soon as possible.
The successful applicant is most likely to be a graduate with a higher level degree or doctorate in a mathematical subject keen to develop a career in a world class investment bank. They will have between 1 and 3 years experience developing commercial software, during which time they will have gained considerable experience of Object Oriented software practices.
Essential Skills & Experience:
General Experience of application development, preferably within the financial areas (Investment banks, Hedge Funds or investment groups)
Proactive with a delivery focus approach to work and able to work without direction
Strong communication and team working skills are essential
Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
Candidate should have experience of structured development & release/implementation practices.
Candidate preferably has experience of working with F/O and/or M/O users and able to understand their requirements quickly.
Experience of working in a pressurized role, to tight deadlines in a constantly changing environment
Candidate should have high awareness of control and Audit requirements for an investment bank and how it impacts the development environment Finance: Good understanding of financial markets and products
Technical
The candidate should have expertise in an object oriented programming language (e.g. Java, C++, C#, Smalltalk) Size of Team
17 Is the team global
Yes Who will the candidate report to
Development Team Manager
Core day to day activities
Technical development and application design
Support for BAU
Unique selling points to this role
Close relationship and proximity to the Front Office and Middle Office.
Project is key for the front office to develop their business and keep their market shares.
Interview process
Project Manager and team members
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