Description
Primary Responsibilities- · Focal point of contact for the Risk Managers providing both business and technical support, covering the core risk applications used within the Credit Risk Management team.
- · Maintain production maintenance of current project deliverables and ongoing upgrade packages
- · Assist in the testing and deployment of the application
- · Continually build and document code to a high standard
- · Improve the processes for computational efficiency and reliability
- · Follow and foster development and maintenance processes and practises of the group
- · Design and development of financial applications in a project framework
Primary Relationships:
Main contacts:
- Project Manager
- Development Manager
- Business representatives
Of particular interest are candidates with experience within risk management investment banking industry, with a proven track record of support and delivery of systems through development, UAT and production environments. Successful candidates will have knowledge of web-based interfaces, feed transformation, and database management. Experience with C#, Unix/Linux and databases (ideally Sybase) is required.
Although an ideal candidate would have experience in working closely with quantitative analysts and risk management reporting, software engineering experience is of primary importance.
Primary technical skills
Essential
- · Experience of OO design principles and techniques
- · ASP.NET, C# (Winforms & WPF)
- · Perl
- · Development experience of SQL, ideally Sybase
- · Unix/Linux experience
Desirable
- · Experience or exposure to developing interactive web applications, ideally Ajax
- · Experience or exposure to using Active Reports
- · Solid development experience working within a front office or risk technology development team
- · Experience / exposure of market data and interfacing to real-time providers
- · Previous experience with risk applications and/or financial instrument modelling
- · Any experience of commercially assessable Web-based interfaces
Qualifications, knowledge and experience:
Required
- · Educated to degree level or equivalent in a numerical, computing or business related discipline
Preferred
- · Financial qualification or product knowledge gained through experience
- · Technical knowledge and experience with front office systems and/or risk management systems that are reliant on trading data
- · Understanding of trade processing and the reliance on data and analytics
- · Experience of using analytical libraries within computational intensive server processing
Core Competencies:
- · Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust, and confidence in the IT team's knowledge of and concern for the business needs
- · Ability to handle multiple deadlines and associated pressures, to manage work independently and to be flexible within continually changing priorities
- · Fluency in English, demonstrated competency in written and verbal communications and interpersonal understanding
- · Iterative approach to development, a strong focus on testing, and a willingness to work within existing practises
- · Practice good code discipline, flexible and pragmatic approach to problem solving.
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