C# Programmer Analyst

Department:

• Equities and derivatives department, with a special focus on Equity and Commodities indexation.
• The business users supported by the team are in New York.
• Distributed team between Paris, London, New York and Montreal.

Role and responsibilities:

The position is for a C#/.Net developer with knowledge of the Equity Derivative business within the IT department in Post Trade Processing and Trade Capture team supporting asset classes.  Our main partners and clients are Traders, Sales, Trade support and Operation teams.

The Post Trade Equity team develops and support software in an AGILE environment for trade booking, position management, settlement management and straight through processing of electronic trades. Our software interacts with various upstream and downstream systems.

The position involves developing our strategic trading tool for trade capture and regulatory reporting across Equtity Derivative. This position includes client and server-side development. The candidate will be required to take part in the requirements gathering and design process, along with the business analyst, which will require knowledge of finance and trading protocols. The candidate will also be expected to take requirements all the way to delivery meanwhile following agile, continuous delivery and change management processes.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

Primary tasks include but are not limited to:

• Building applications for various front office businesses
• Ensuring all data and flows between other trading and settlement applications are maintained
• Defining the architecture for new developments
• Managing each initiative given by management from start to end, meaning:
  • Work with users and business analysts to understand user needs and translate requirements into systems
  • Propose designs and implement the project accordingly
  • Review and design the architecture for the new systems
  • Estimate effort and ensure timely delivery
  • Ensure agile and continuous delivery methodology is followed
  • Ensure code is well tested
  • Ensure that release management / change management processes are followed
  • Be responsible for the 2nd and 3rd level of support
  • Assist the support team in the rollout of releases
  • Give clear and consistent reports to the clients and management
  • Assess risks and develop contingent strategies
  • Collaborate with other teams (networking, systems, quality insurance, support, architects, others development teams)
  • Rely on IT best practices to improve quality of development
  • Participate as a motivated, proactive and highly contributing member of the global team
  • Manage several streams of work concurrently