This is a career opportunity for individuals in the Fixed Income Business. The Fixed Income business aims to be one of the leading liquidity providers in the derivatives and the Government bond markets, and to offer an integrated sale, trading and research service to the client base comprising investor business, corporates, financial institutions and hedge funds. The product offering includes Government Bonds, interest rate swaps, basis swaps, interest rate options & swaptions, FRAs and caps / floors. The position falls within the E-Trading division of a large Financial Institution. Systems and applications supported would be a combination of In-house development and vendor applications, using a variety of technologies.

The selected candidate would join a team of analyst/programmers to work on C++ server and client side components.

Responsibilities Include:

• Analysis, Development, Testing
• Carrying out all steps of the development lifecycle to deliver new versions of components for E-Trading, namely:
  - Liaising with business representatives to determine requirements
  • Analyzing those requirements to find the most appropriate method for incorporating them into existing systems
  • Documenting the changes
  • eveloping those requirements
  • Unit / system / regression / performance testing those requirements
  • Reviewing code produced by others
  - Working with the business representatives during the UAT stage
  - Supporting the implementation of each new code release
• Maintaining the project standards and ensuring that they are adhered to, as well as proactively trying to add to these standards whenever possible

To qualify, candidates must have:

• A degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Strong Communication
  • Must be able to communicate effectively with the trading desks to get requirements, handle issues and manage expectations
  • Must be able to communicate effectively with other development team members, other project members, other managers and users, gauging the level of technical knowledge of the audience in these communications
• Experience:
  • Strong commercial experience as analyst/developer
  • Strong fixed income, rates experience
  • Good knowledge of ECNs and Market View
  • Strong experience with relational databases (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server)
  • Good exposure to software design
  • Good exposure to multi-threaded programming
• Must be self-motivated, setting a high level of professionalism and excellence

Job location: New York
The successful candidate should be self-motivated, setting a high level of professionalism and excellence. He/She must be able to enhance and support front, middle and back office applications and systems that are used for Fixed Income business globally. It is also required that the selected candidate should have a good appreciation of the software quality lifecycle, with emphasis on the importance of the testing stages.

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