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Form of work
Salary lead and other development teams within the GFX programme to enhance the system e.g. to support local onshore market trading requirements, risk management requirement.
• Draw-up detailed technical designs for items worked on.
• Work effectively with any external consultancies engaged during the project to provide technical and graphical design expertise.
• Implement best-of-breed technical solutions based on agreed technical design, adopting industry standard development patterns and methodologies (including continuous integration and automated unit and integration testing)
• Fully test implemented solutions in advance of User Acceptance Testing
• Assist (when required) with the deployment of components to development and test environments
• Participate in intra-day and overnight Support rotas (when required).
Skillset:
• Java server side development
• The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge of multi-threaded development.
• Demonstrable experience implementing global, distributed systems in a 24 * 5.5 trading environment
• Experience of building FX or eRates pricing systems for eCommerce
• KDB / Q knowledge advantageous but not essential
• familiarity with rates and bonds RFQ trading via ION MarketView Java API
Business Knowledge:
• Operation of trading desks in a large, multi-site Investment Bank with significant eCommerce offering
• Foreign Exchange in a high volume low latency environment.
• Experience working on enterprise systems but also agile delivery of Quant and Business requirements.
• Spot FX market conventions
• Forward FX market conventions
