Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Design, develop, test, release and support the US Structured Equity Derivatives Trading Desk.
The candidate will work on small to medium-term projects directly with the US Equity Derivatives Trading Desk using technologies such as C#, Python and Excel VBA among others.
This includes supporting existing .NET applications & Excel Spreadsheets, as well as developing new applications based on the needs of the trading desk.
Required Qualifications
Technical Skill Set:
Experienced developer, with a technical background – ideally comfortable with some coding languages (C#, Python and Excel VBA).
Whilst Derivatives trading knowledge (options pricing and risk) is beneficial it is not required for this role
Excellent communicator, and comfortable communicating directly with the Trading Desk and internal Technology teams
Able to range up and down the detail depending on the audience.
Able to handle all phases of development (requirements gathering/analysis through to implementation), establishing solid relationships and trust built on proven delivery.
Learning from operational failures is important, constantly asking why, using evidence to prove root causes and ensuring solutions are implemented to prevent reoccurrences.
Have an understanding of software development lifecycles and modern software delivery principles such as continuous delivery
