[Esug-list] Fwd: open positions in london kapital

[Noury Bouraqadi]

Hi everybody and happy new year,

Below a job offer to join the Kapital team.
It is also available on my job offers page
http://vst.ensm-douai.fr/noury/18#2008-01-04

All the best,
Noury

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> From: francisco.j.garau at jpmorgan.com
> Date: 4 janvier 2008 16:33:27 HNEC
> To: bouraqadi at ensm-douai.fr
> Cc: nfr at bigwig.net
> Subject: open positions in london kapital
>
> Hi,
>
> We have a couple of open positions for good Smalltalk programmers to  
> work
> in our London Kapital team. Kapital is risk management system with  
> more
> than 15 thousand classes and 3 million lines of code. The team is  
> global
> with around 100 developers across locations. We use VisualWorks 7.5,
> Gemstone and Envy.
>
> If you are interested, please send your CV to
> francisco.j.garau at jpmorgan.com. Below is the formal job description.
>
> Cheers,
> Francisco
>
> @Noury: can you post this to your job database and the esug-list? -  
> thanks
> @Niall: can you update the smalltalk jobs database? - thanks
> ====
>
> Kapital Developer, Associate (London)
>
> [Description]
> - 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.
>
>
> [Qualifications]
> - 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)
>
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Noury Bouraqadi
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