Vice President, Algo Developer, Global Markets Research Technology recruitment
Overview
Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving more than 59 million consumer and small business relationships with more than 6,100 retail banking offices, nearly 18,700 ATMs and award-winning online banking with nearly 29 million active users. Following the acquisition of Merrill Lynch on January 1, 2009, Bank of America is among the world's leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. Bank of America offers industry-leading support to more than 4 million small business owners through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients in more than 150 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Job Description
Electronic Trading Technology is responsible for the development and support of the technology infrastructure used for electronic trading within the Pacific Rim region. The group supports systems that enable electronic client connectivity, automated trading (includes algorithmic, smart order routing and internalization engines), market connectivity and the associated workflow. The team is broadly distributed throughout the region with concentrations in Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore.
Bank of America/Merrill Lynch has been an active provider of electronic trading services. We are currently looking to refresh the current architecture and require a skilled senior developer to help drive the trading engine re-architecture in PacRim.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
· Hands on role involved design and build out of algorithmic trading engines
· Working with key business partners to ensure accurate and on time delivery of projects.
· Providing thought leadership on the future direction of the products.
· Collaborating with peers located in Europe and US in order to maintain a global code base.
Requirements
Essential Skills (Technical / Business Domain / Managerial/ Soft skills)
· 10-15 years of development experience with front office trading systems. Experience should include work with: Real time market data. Multi threaded systems.Inter-process communications. Memory management. Client/server architecture.
· Proven experience with object oriented development. Experience should include: Design patterns. Modeling. Java SE
· Proven experience with SDLC for complex projects. Experience should include: Agile development methodologies. Test driven development. Continuous integration
· Understanding of market micro structure concepts.
· Proven track record of development of automated trading engines covering the following aspects: Algorithmic trading. Smart order routing. Internalization. Order management
· Understanding of global Equity markets.Understanding of the various functions within a trading desk. Understanding of exchange micro structure.
· Track record of managing teams gt; 10 people.Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach individuals.Experience with budgeting and long term planning.Experience with distributed development teams.
Desired Skills (Technical / Domain / Managerial/ Language skills)
· Java/C++ development experience. Relational database skills. Experience with middleware software. Working knowledge of FIX. Experience with execution/order management systems. Experience with futures and options.