C++/Excel/VBA Front Office Developer – £85k…. recruitment

A Top Tier Investment Bank within London are looking for an experienced C++/Excel VBA developer to join the team.

The job will be to develop and support the banks primary front office excel analytic addin, developed in C++ and VBA. It covers dates, yield curves, swaps and other derivative products.

The successful candidate would be expected to work with the IR Linear/VanOps area of the business, especially the trading desk and the quant team ensuring that the toolkit continues to fulfil the needs of the users around New Curves and VanOps pricing and coordinating the work of our two SGP resources to help ensure this happens. The role involves the full life cycle of software development, from specification with the users and quants through implementation, regression testing, documentation, deployment and support. This is fast paced role where the toolkit needs to provide tactical response in a strategic manner. It is a RAD based product.

There is already a very large user base and hence we would expect the successful candidate's time to be split 40/60 between support and development.

The is the excellent opportunity for someone with good mathematical / engineering /computer science background who has experience of Interest Rate Pricing Experience, preferably interest rate options.

Qualifications /Education:

Maths / Engineering / Computer Science degree from a good university

Practical understanding of development best practices.

Ability to work in fast moving environment

Flexible with well developed problem solving abilities

Good understanding of a pricing, either Interest Rate products or other business similar business area.

Good level of programming skills in C++ and Excel/VBA

For more information or to apply please contact me on 02073970132 or alex.mesropians@nicollcurtin.com