[Esug-list] Smalltalk position (UK based)

[Rob Vens]

Following is the job description. Please respond if you are interested to:

*James Tilley*
*Financial Markets*

*Cititec Associates Limited*

50 Featherstone Street,
London, EC1Y 8RT

*t*  +44 (0) 20 7608 5858

*d *+44 (0) 20 7608 5813

*f  *+44 (0) 20 7608 5888
james.tilley at cititec.com

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XXX is one of the world's leading banks as measured by client franchise,
product breadth, geographic reach and revenues. The firm provides clients
with a full range of investment banking and commercial banking products and
services.  It advises on corporate strategy and structure, raising and
placing capital, making markets in financial instruments and offering
sophisticated risk management tools and strategies.

XXX is a world leader in derivatives trading and product innovation, with
structured derivative products being a particular speciality. That means we
need world class technologists in what is a complex, ever-changing business
domain, where speed-to-market of technology solutions is often the driver of
technology spend and decision-making.

IB Tech Exotics and Hybrids and Retail Structured Products Technology
provides end to end technology solutions for the structuring, sales, trading
and processing of all Rate Derivative, Credit Derivative and Equity
Derivative products traded in the Investment Bank. These solutions include
client facing pricing tools, sophisticated trader risk management tools and
models, trade management and settlement systems and accounting engines.
Products within scope include interest rate derivatives, interest rate
swaps, credit default swaps, collateral debt obligations, equity
derivatives, foreign exchange, commodity products, and their related
derivative instruments.

*Kapital*

The candidate will be a member of a development team responsible for the
support and enhancement of the Kapital risk management system in London.

Kapital supports the non-vanilla fixed income derivatives, credit hybrids
derivatives, FX derivatives, and multi asset derivatives businesses. It is a
global system, deployed locally in London, New York, and Asia Pacific. It
stores the prime records for a vast range of instruments (all of which can
be arbitrarily combined within a single deal). These include the simplest
fees, swaps, caps, floors, and credit default swaps through to the most
complex multi-asset derivatives such as FX Turbo Swaps, Interest Rate and FX
Range Notes, and credit hybrids basket derivatives.



*Role*

The role will require the candidate to develop detailed knowledge of both
derivatives trading businesses and OO development. The team is co-located
with the business, and hence requires team members to have strong
communication skills.

The candidate will be working closely with front and middle office users to
define and document requirements.  Requirements will mostly center on a
detailed and technical aspect of derivatives risk management. They will
initially be only high level. The successful applicant will be expected to
be comfortable working with quants and traders to efficiently refine these
initial requirements into a deliverable specification.

The developers are responsible for developing, testing and delivering the
specification using an agile programming approach resulting in software
delivered on time and in budget.

The applications delivery environment is highly object oriented and written
entirely in Smalltalk. If necessary, the applicant will be expected to learn
Smalltalk quickly and subsequently begin delivering software to the business
as soon as possible.

The successful applicant is most likely to be a graduate with a higher level
degree or doctorate in a mathematical subject keen to develop a career in a
world class investment bank. They will have between 1 and 3 years experience
developing commercial software, during which time they will have gained
considerable experience of Object Oriented software practices.



*Essential Skills & Experience:*

*General*

Experience of application development, preferably within the financial areas
(Investment banks, Hedge Funds or investment groups)

Proactive with a delivery focus approach to work and able to work without
direction

Strong communication and team working skills are essential

Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

Candidate should have experience of structured development &
release/implementation practices.

Candidate preferably has experience of working with F/O and/or M/O users and
able to understand their requirements quickly.

Experience of working in a pressurized role, to tight deadlines in a
constantly changing environment

Candidate should have high awareness of control and Audit requirements for
an investment bank and how it impacts the development environment

*Finance: *

Good understanding of financial markets and products

*Technical*

The candidate should have expertise in an object oriented programming
language (e.g. Java, C++, C#, Smalltalk)

*Size of Team*

17

*Is the team global*

Yes

*Who will the candidate report to*

Development Team Manager

*Core day to day activities*

Technical development and application design

Support for BAU

*Unique selling points to this role*

Close relationship and proximity to the Front Office and Middle Office.

Project is key for the front office to develop their business and keep their
market shares.

*Interview process*

Project Manager and team members
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