Front Office Energy Commodities C## Developer
Noble is a highly successful commodity supply and trading business with a strong emerging markets focus. It is a Fortune 500 company, which in 2011 recorded revenues of over $80 billion. The company is a global business, headquartered in , listed in and operating across 6 continents.
The company trades across most commodities including oil, power and gas, agriculture and metals and owns key parts of the supply chain.
www.thisisnoble.com
Job Description:
This position is in an existing development team within the Front Office environment working alongside traders, analysts, quants, middle and back office to develop applications in C# for the global physical commodities trading business. The business trades physical US and European Power, Gas and Oil products and options.
The role will suit a strong C# developer with broad IT skills and experience in both front end and back end (server side) development who will design and build new tools for a range of front office tasks including pre-trade analysis, trade capture, position management on the trader’s desk and PL reporting.
You will gather the requirements directly from the end users on the trading floor and in doing so will gain insight into the business and trading processes.
A range of technology is used within the team in addition to C# including Excel, SQL Server, Oracle, Java, Biztalk and opensource technologies such as the Cassandra non-relational database. So you will have the opportunity to work with different technologies and will be expected to engage in discussions around selection of the most appropriate for each task.
You will own and be responsible for delivery to the business of systems and solutions you develop.
This is an excellent opportunity for a keen and enthusiastic developer interested in learning about the physical commodities business.
Work Involved:
Examples of the type of work expected include:
- Create trade blotters for the trading desks
- Build Excel Addins for analysis
- Build tools for calculating and reporting position or price data
Required Skills and Experience:
Proven experience in the following areas are absolute requirements:
- C# application development, both front end and back end (server side)
- SQL experience in either SQL Server or Oracle
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, to communicate with non-technical business and IT staff at all levels of the company
- Running your own short timescale projects (gather requirements direct from the business, design, develop and test your solutions)
Desirable Skills and Experience:
Demonstrable experience in the following will be highly desirable:
- Agile development methodologies
- Excel and VBA development
- Java development
- Enterprise Service Bus architecture
- Work in a trading environment, especially in a front office role
- Understanding of options trading relating to the energy trading business, in particular oil
Education:
- A degree in an IT subject is highly desirable but not required
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