Asia Equity Derivatives Pricing Developer — Senior Associate/VP recruitment
Department Summary
The Equity Technology group is responsible for delivering global technology solutions to the equity derivatives business. We work closely with our business sponsors to define and build the next generation of pricing applications to support trading, structuring marketing.
Position Summary
The successful candidate will be working with the traders, structurers, marketers, quantitative research, technology and operate to create, enhance and maintain the strategic pricing tool used by all areas of the business:
- Add new Structured Products and speed the time to deliver new products
- Produce state of the art market data analytics
- Driving global projects from APAC
Key Accountabilities/Major Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will deal directly will the Front Office, resolving any issues quickly and developing solutions for the APAC desks. As they will be a part of the Pricing Structuring team they will be adapting that platform for APAC specific needs as well as contibuting back to the Global code base.
Skills
In order to develop and support the trading business, the candidate must have:
- a solid C# knowledge or any object oriented language
- Good understanding of the financial products.
- Good understanding of Service Oriented Architecture like Tomcat Services
The successful candidate will have a financial understanding including in-depth knowledge of listed and OTC products, associated risk measures and downstream processes. The role will involve interacting with other technology and business teams (i.e. middle office, finance, risk, support) and passing on detailed specifications of problems. It is crucial that the individual is a self starting who will take ownership of problems and see them through to resolution. Multi-tasking, troubleshooting and problem solving skills are essential. As this individual will be interacting with the business on a daily basis strong communication skills and an understanding of derivatives pricing and risk measures are critical to succeed in the role.