Trading System Mid/Senior Java Developer recruitment

The Aladdin trading and risk management system, used internally at BlackRock and by BlackRock Solutions clients, enables customers to manage over $5 trillion in financial assets. Aladdin is central to our technology strategy, unifying BlackRock by providing everyone with a common language and a central point of reference for our investment activities globally.
The Aladdin and Application Engineering teams within the Aladdin Technology group use the latest technologies to design and develop applications that make up the firm's investment management platform. The systems support the full lifecycle of the investment management process, from quantitative risk management to order entry, trade routing and settlement.

Team Overview:

The ATN (Aladdin Trading Network) team is developing what BlackRock hopes will be a paradigm-shift in the way Corporate Bonds (and later other asset classes, like securitized products, Equities, etc.) are traded on the Buy Side. The platform will ultimately allow Buy Side clients to cross trades within a brand new liquidity pool and ultimately lower their trading costs. As such, BlackRock is actively building a development team to help build this platform. The team is located in NYC and London.

Role Responsibility:

• Work within a team of three geographically distributed developers building the trading platform
• Design, implement and test trading related business applications including GUI trade capture screens, trade blotters, FIX Messaging gateways, matching/crossing engines, inventory monitors, allocation functionality and regulatory reporting
• Interact closely with the product team and end users on functionality
• Provide ongoing development, support, and maintenance of existing application functionality. Collaborate with team members in other offices to work jointly on trading solutions that can be utilized globally. Develop within a mature framework and service-oriented architecture that supports all major asset classes
• Participate in project planning sessions with team leads and business stakeholders to develop project schedules and work estimates

Experience:

• 5-10 years of experience working on financial systems, preferably trading related technology
• 3-5 years of Java UI (Swing) development experience; Java 1.6 a plus
• SQL, Hibernate and Spring
• Buy side and/or sell side knowledgeable
• Knowledgeable about fixed income, MBS, FX and other markets
• BA/BS or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics or a related field.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills coupled with a strong attention to detail
• Good communication skills and the ability to work effectively and adapt quickly in a rapidly changing, team-based environment
• Experience with (Agile-like) process-oriented methodologies

Technical expertise in the following areas is desirable:

• Developing client/server and distributed systems
• Object-oriented analysis and design
• Java (1.6); Swing
• Enterprise messaging systems such as MQ
• SYBASE, SQL
• ANT, IVY, Continuous Integration (Hudson), Unit testing (JUnit), Subversion (SVN), Jira/Crucible/Fisheye
• Spring
• Hibernate
• Apache Chains
• FIX protocol
• XML and XSD
• Perl
• Linux/UNIX
• Experience with Build and Release processes

BlackRock is proud to be an E-Verify Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer--M/F/D/V.

Skills

BlackRock is one of the world's preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary and individual investors around the world. BlackRock offers a range of solutions -- from rigorous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world's capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs.