C# WPF Developer – Contract – Interest Rate Cash recruitment

Position Description

The candidate will be part of the interest rates cash trading systems team. This is a front office–facing development team with 60+ members spread over three continents, including around 15 in London. It is responsible for pricing, e-trading and intra-day risk management of cash products (primarily bonds and futures) and interest-rate swaps, and feeds to downstream systems. There is a considerable amount of interaction with trading desk and quants as well as financial controllers, market risk and derivative operations departments.
The interest rate cash systems are in the early phase of considerable multi-year renovation that is required to meet the demands coming from regulatory change, expansion of electronic and algorithmic trading and a firm-wide strategic goal to increase market share in this area, set against a backdrop of rapidly evolving global economic conditions. Key elements of the renovation are in the areas of e-trading including automated quoting and risk management; pricing; and developing an integrated trader desktop application suite.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate an eagerness to learn the existing platforms, which are built using a variety of technologies including java, C++, C# and be proactive in designing and building the next generation of systems to meet the business demands. The person will also be able to handle competing demands including both tactical and strategic initiatives, manage own work to aggressive deadlines and work within a globally distributed team. The role will offer a good opportunity for those looking to make a difference to a major business division.

Skills Required

- Strong technical background including a high level of proficiency in OO design and in-depth knowledge of the .Net framework, C# and WPF/WCF.
- Experience developing low-latency, multi-threaded systems and with performance analysis and optimisation
- Development experience with distributed middleware such as MQ or TIBCO Rendezvous
- Problem solving ability including ability to discuss and refine requirements with users, convert those requirements into a design and build a solution to meet that design
- Strong communication skills

Skills Desired

- Development experience with pricing, e-trading, risk management of interest rate or related Fixed Income products
- Knowledge of perforce or similar source-control system and jira or similar job-tracking system