C++ Lead Developer, Investment Banking, Risk Analytics, Equity Derivatives, Hong Kong recruitment
My client, a top-tier investment bank, is aggressively expanding its APAC Equities Technology as part of a high profile global program of strategic investment.
As such they are looking for a SVP level C++ Lead Developer, ideally having solid experience in Pricing/ Risk/ Analytics, to act as a hands-on team lead for the APAC Equity Risk team, which is expected to grow substantially this year, and contribute to a number of large-scale Equity Risk driven initiatives.
You will do hands-on development for the Equities Front (Sales Trading) and supporting business teams. You will also be heavily engaged in the build-out of new solutions to improve equities Risk and Pricing capabilities.
- Display a high level of technical competence and expertise necessary to be an example to more junior members of the team. Act as a point of escalation for complex technical issues and be recognised as someone able to solve complicated problems using appropriate technology and techniques. Inspire this behaviour in others.
- Manage the workload of the regional development team, delegating tasks, ensuring progress, and taking the responsibility for the quality of deliverables
- Integrate with the global development team, leveraging common solutions to deliver the future state architectural direction of the Equity Risk platform
- Help grow the APAC Equity Risk team, by hiring the best talent and building an efficient development model.
- Represent the development team to the user community (Sales, Trading and Middle Office) where required
Person specification
- Strong front office development skills, experience in .NET 3.5/4.0, C# and C++
- WPF and WCF (and SOA, Restful services)
- Enterprise messaging(e.g.Tib EMS, Business Works)
- Sybase, SQL Server and XML/FPML
- Design Patterns for UI and solving OO problems
- Team management
- Client management
- Previous experience (7+ years) of financial systems architecture and development is essential. Strong project management and team management skills with experience leading large sized teams globally located required.
- This role will have daily interaction with the business user community front to back, i.e. Sales, Traders, Middle Office and Risk Management, as well as working closely with other technology teams globally. Therefore, a strong understanding of finance and derivatives products in particular in terms of the Risk Analytics is required. Analysis skills to work through functional requirements and business problems would also be required.
The role will offer a significant increase in comp.
If you would like to apply for this opening or discuss any other positions within banking and finance technology in Asia, please send an email to Noel Lau at noel.lau@bahpartners.com or call +852 9834 2181/ +852 2544 4477 for more details.