What are the responsibilities and job description for the JAVA Developer / Electronic Trading position at QUANTEAM - North America (RAINBOW PARTNERS Group)?
As the founding entity of RAINBOW PARTNERS, Quanteam is a consulting firm specialized in Banking, Finance, and Financial Services. Through our core human values – proximity, teamwork, diversity, excellence – our 850 expert consultants, hailing from 35 different nationalities, collaborate across 13 international offices: Paris, Lyon, New York, Montreal, London, Brussels, Luxembourg, Geneva, Lisbon, Porto, Casablanca, Madrid and Singapore.
Context
As a JAVA Developer consultant you will work for our client to enhance Electronic Market Systems in Finance (front office/trading side).
The bank has a presence in 80 countries with nearly 200,000 employees, including more than 150,000 in Europe. It ranks highly in its three core activities: Retail Banking, Investment Solutions and Corporate & Investment Banking.
The Development team operates as part of a Global Pricing and Electronic Markets Technology team to develop systems used for the Trading activity. It is a Front Office facing team which works directly with Traders and Business Management to provide high quality solutions both locally and as part of the platforms. The role is contractor initially, with the option of going permanent.
Responsibilities
· Design and develop pricing and electronic markets distributed applications as a member of a global development team.
· Work with traders, developers, business analysts, and vendors to determine functional requirements and integration plans for applications.
· Provide second-line support of applications for front-office users.
Experience
Must to have:
· Proven core java skills and knowledge.
· Experience of a front office trading environment
· Ability to design and develop scalable solutions which are easy to maintain and support.
· Firm understanding of java memory model and multi-threading development.
· Knowledge of SDLC and prior experience working on large software development projects.
· Ability to see “big picture” to consider system dependencies, corner cases and change impacts in providing robust solutions.
· Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
· Strong interpersonal skills.
· Ability to work as part of a global team.
Nice to have:
· Previous experience developing Electronic Trading systems.
· Knowledge of Interest Rate Products (Treasuries, IR Swaps, etc) and their trading lifecycle.
· Prior experience working at a Large Global Investment Bank, especially a Fixed Income Front Office (Trading) Environment.
· Proficiency in SQL and experience working with SQL Server and/or Oracle.
· Prior experience of ION Trading Services (Connectivity, STP, RFQ, VMO and MMI).
· Knowledge of TIBCO Rendezvous.
· Python