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Equity Derivatives Developer
RESPONSIBILITIES
Provide technology development and support for the ***** Structured Alternative Investments team. Candidate should have experience working with real-time and batch transaction processing systems and knowledge of structured products management systems (especially products tailored towards Hedge Funds financing). Candidate should have experience with the full project development life cycle within Windows 200x/Sybase/C-sharp environments.
Candidate will be responsible for the analysis, design, programming and unit testing of software enhancements and projects, as well as production support for existing applications and processes. Candidate will also be responsible for performing research on level-2 and -3 production issues as they arise, and will be required to work with the user community to clarify requirements, validate test results and respond to requests for support. Documentation of all development will be required, with turnover of processes to our production support team.
Specific applications development and support responsibilities will apply to our Structured Alternative Investments platform and its different downstream interfaces.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Required/Must have:
Strong C# development skills
Sybase Server
Database modeling
Windows and Unix Shell/Perl scripting
NT/XP/MS Office Suite
Desired/Plus:
Java, J2EE, XML, HTTP, JavaScript
Middleware (Corba, MQ, Tuxedo)
MS SQL/Oracle
Unix / Linux
BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE
Required/Must have:
Hedge Fund financing concepts
Risk Management concepts
Desired/Plus:
Other Equity Derivatives experience
Loan and Cash flow management concepts
Knowledge of trading and brokerage operations - front to back
MANAGEMENT SKILLS (if any)
Required/Must have:
End-to-end development life-cycle methodology
Desired/Plus:
Technology Project Management
COMPETENCIES
Required/Must have:
· Clear written and verbal communication skills, appropriate to a given audience, (technical, functional, etc.)
· Must be a self-starter who is comfortable working in a very dynamic environment, with rapidly changing priorities.
· Excellent problem solving skills.
· Must be able to interact with a variety of teams - support, infrastructure, development.
· Must be able to provide accurate estimation of work effort, and effective status to management as well as clients.
Desired/Plus:
PRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE
Required/Must have:
· Hedge Fund financing experience
· Risk Management systems
· Loan/Financing systems experience
· Full project life cycle experience
· Production support experience
· Experience providing documentation to both technical and client audiences
· Approximately 3-5 years of work experience
Desired/Plus:
· Equities front/back office applications experience in the brokerage industry
· Derivatives systems experience
EDUCATION
Required/Must have:
BS in Computer Science/Finance or related field
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I am a recruiter who specializes in the IT financial industry. I work with over a dozen hedge funds and three major financial firms in the Tri-state area. Most of my positions are in 100K to 200K base. If you are passively looking for a better career opportunity, please send me your resume and I will give you a call. I am only representing candidates who have a stable job history (no more then three jobs in five years). Your resume will remain confidential and it will not be submitted to any firms without your consent.