Morgan Stanley Technology, ISGT – Interest Rate Derivative Front Office Java Developer recruitment

Position Category: Information Technology

Position Title: Morgan Stanley Technology, ISGT - Interest Rate Derivative Front Office Java Developer

Job Level: Associate

Location: Hong Kong - Hong Kong

Education Required: Bachelors Degree

Position Description:
The candidate will be part of the Interest Rate Derivatives trading systems team. This is a front-office development team with 80+ members spread over three continents, including 20 in London.

The team is responsible for trade capture life-cycle management, market data management and calibration of systems to calculate valuations, risk, profit loss for both real-time and end-of-day and feeds where appropriate to downstream systems. There will be a considerable amount of interaction with trading desk and quants as well as financial controllers, market risk and derivative operations departments.

The interest rate derivatives systems are in the early phase of considerable multi-year change that are required to meet the demands stemming from regulatory change, expansion of electronic trading of derivatives and a firm-wide strategic goal to increase market share in this area, set against a backdrop of rapidly evolving global economic conditions. Key elements of the renovation are the realtime risk systems, the job distribution and scheduling for the overnight risk calculations and the feeds of risk and trade information to the firm-wide finance, settlement, collateral and confirmation systems.

We are looking for a front-office desk-facing developer to work on interest rate risk technology projects. This will involve working closely with the trading desk and strategists to understand the business requirements and implement technology solutions within the front-office trading systems. This will involve a 50/50 mix of tactical (

We don't have specific roles for business analyst, architect, project manager, developer. All developers are involved in all aspects of the development lifecycle from requirements gathering to deployment and support.

Skills Required:
*Strong technical background including proficiency in OO design and in-depth knowledge of java or scala
*Experience of linux development environment
*Problem solving ability including ability to discuss and refine requirements with users, convert those requirements into a design and build a solution to meet that design
*Strong communication skills

Skills Desired:
*Some knowledge of interest rate derivatives, or financial options in general
*Familiarity with derivate trade capture and/or risk systems
*Experience with functional programming and with scripting languages such as perl
*Knowledge of perforce or similar source-control system and jira or similar job-tracking system