Lead Application Developer, Equity Derivatives VP Level recruitment
This person must be a highly talented and driven technologist who has a track record of delivering outstanding solutions in an investment bank or other fast-paced industry where first class solutions are the norm.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with Operations group to gather business requirements and prioritize
- Design and code business functionality on a number of services including Transaction service and Termsheet Generation.
- Ensure solutions conform to best practice design principals and meet capacity and resilience as well as functional requirements.
- Agree test strategy and co-ordinate test execution with business users.
- Take ownership for resolution of any production issues post implementation.
- Liaise with global Project Managers on end-to-end delivery.
- Report progress to senior management. Good communication skills will be paramount.
Essential skills required:
- Typically 10 years hands-on experience and expert on Java, C# is a plus
- Track record of working on distributed systems and service-oriented architecture with complex system interactions.
- Strong understanding of equity derivatives and securities (transaction processing / order management)
- Relational database experience and SQL.
- Experience of JMS and AMQ messaging, FIX / FPML
- Data structure design skills with in-depth knowledge of object modelling and design patterns
- Strong communication and team-working skills including mentoring.
- Computer science background with an intellectual rigour.
- Proven track record of ownership and delivery, strong leadership
Desirable skills
- Experience and working knowledge of JUnit, Maven, Tomcat
- Agile development techniques
Education
- To degree level, ideally in a computer science, mathematical or engineering discipline
For further information please contact John Meadowcroft on 020 7780 6700. Alternativley forward your CV to John.Meadowcroft@AnsonMcCade.com
May 5, 2012
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