Market access developer/architect recruitment

The ITEC department is the Information Technology department of SG within the Investment bank. It provides global solution with in house developments and vendor systems to support its operational processes and secure its business growth. ITEC is a worldwide entity spread across Europe, New York and Asia. It is composed of Project Managers, Business Analysts, Developers, Quality assurance and Application Support representatives.

The Market Access team is developing and maintaining exchange connectivity and high performance front office systems. All development are leveraging on a common framework developed in Asia, Europe and Americas.

Increasing demands on the order management system and the data feed distribution architecture implies the implementation new and innovative technical solutions. Those solutions often involve significant manpower, with very diverse technical skills (networking, system, real-time algorithm, market data…). A need for a senior developer/architect has been identified in the Market Access team to specify those requirements and manage a very heteroclite pool of business requests.

The RTMA senior developer/architect needs to be technically excellent with strong organizational skills. An international experience in a front-office IT department is a must

Main Accountabilities

The candidate will join the Market Access team responsible of

- building high performance market connectivity for various front office businesses (like Arbitrage, Volatility …) or Operations.

- ensuring all data and flows between other sales, trading and settlement applications are maintained

- building sophisticated real-time market data system, from defining the architecture to all process workflow related aspects

- Work in full cooperation with infrastructure teams and other IT teams to reduce latency

Main roles will be to:

+ Manage each initiatives given by its management from start to end, meaning:

_Gather requirements with the business

_ Produce business specifications documents 

_ Implement the project accordingly to the design he will propose

_ Contribute to the strategy to reduce latency, both at the infrastructure and application levels

_ Ensure that release management / change management processes are followed

_ Be responsible of the 2nd and 3rd level of support

_ Give clear and consistent reports to the clients and management

_ Assess risks and develop contingent strategies

_ Collaborate with others teams (networking, systems, quality insurance, support, architects, others development teams..).

This person will also have to:

_ Rely on IT best practices to improve quality of his development

_ Participate to the global framework

_ Aptitude to work on different subjects at the same time.

Position Purpose / Context

To continue improving our electronic market connectivity, in terms of latency and coverage, the MARK business has reinforced the importance of maintaining investment and highly skilled people.

To do so, some existing market connectivities need to be revamped to increase the performance as this is a very competitive business.

We need to continue attracting talented people knowledgeable on both functional and technical aspects. The person should be able to propose technical enhancement to continue reducing the latency.

Capabilities - Required Qualification

Competencies

Required:

Analytical skills

Algorithmic skills

Dynamic, detail oriented, fast learning capacity and able to work in a high pressure environment

Good written verbal communication skills

Knowledge in change management

Rigorous

Aptitude to work on different subjects at the same time.

Curious and perform market watch on hardware and network

Desired/ Plus:

Project management skills

Knowledge on change management / release management processes

Technical skills

Required:

Strong object-oriented programming skills

Strong technical skills in C/C++, UNIX, LINUX, client server development,

Strong knowledge on messaging technologies, network protocols, socket programming,

Shell/Perl scripting

Source control tools

Desired/ Plus:

Unit testing tools

Knowledge of CVS

Prior Work experience

Required:

Previous significant experience (at least 3 years) as a developer /architect on Market connectivity (market data and order passing)

Education

Required:

B.S degree in computer science. 

Basic knowledge in financial instrument and/or risk analysis and/or booking knowledge

Desired/ Plus:

A master degree or equivalent 

Languages

Required:  English