Front Office Trading System Developer, Market Data – Singapore recruitment

This particular firm has offices based in the USA, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing and London and are looking to globally expand further over the next 3 years.

Asia is currently the world’s fastest growing economical region with its importance and influence rapidly growing. This prestigious Global Investment Management firm in question has an excellent reputation and worldwide presence. They have a multi-billion dollar investment in Technology and are therefore looking to bring on some of the best technologists in 2012.  They are seeking people with the right mix of strong technical experience from all levels/areas of the spectrum (C++, High Frequency Trading, Market Data, Quantitative Development, Market Making etc). They are looking for exceptional technologists with excellent communication skills, and above all the right attitude to work and desire to grow themselves and be apart of an expanding and growing technical development, developing the state-of-the-art Technology. The majority of the openings require excellent knowledge of C++ on Linux/Unix with Perl knowledge/experience.

In return, they offer a highly un-beatable, competitive compensation package along with outstanding career growth opportunities. You will have the potential to work in an environment with smart like-minded team mates that have a real passion for technology and eventually work your way up the career ladder making an influential impact.

As mentioned above, there are two available positions that they are looking to recruit for at the moment, one based in Singapore and one based in Beijing/China.  This particular opening is for a strong technologist to come and join a front office environment working along side the traders. The ideal candidate will support daily trading and market data related operations. There is also a strong element of support and the perspective candidate will spend time monitoring various trading and data processing applications and market data related issues. There will also be a strong element of development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor trading system and trading strategies for any real time issues, such as network connectivity problem, trading violation, fix incorrect trades etc, and notify affected users as necessary

• Prepare reports on trading PNL, reconcile trades with brokers

• Monitor various market data retrieval applications for possible

• Quality/availability issues and apply fix, or escalating to internal or external parties for further investigation/fix.

• Develop programs to handle trading operations and production process

• monitoring, enhancing existing system ( mostly using Perl and some shell

• scripting)

• Trouble shoot market data related problems such as; data delay, missing

• data, inaccurate data and coordinate with appropriate party to solve the

• problem

• Perform investigations on the production system and answer inquiries

• regarding trading issues from Portfolio managers

• Help users of market data get familiar with the data content, collaborate

• with data vendors on clarifying data usage, format etc.

Required Skills:

• Experience with scripting language, Perl and shell scripting are required,

• knowing Python is a plus.

• Interested in applying technology to real situation, comfortable working in a fast paced working environment, detail oriented and capable performing task under pressure.

• Background in Computer Science, Engineering, Math Physics, with

• minimum Bachelor’s degree, Masters or above is preferred. Proof of good academic record (such as GPA or other relevant test scores)

• Experienced with working under Linux environment

This is a unique, challenging opportunity for an exceptional analyst/developer to play a key role in the development of next generation trading systems. Although based in Singapore and China the client is also extremely open to applicants from other locations. If this is of interest to you please forward a word formatted CV/ resume to cplusplus@selbyjennings.com or call +44 207 019 4163/ 212 231 8223