Intern – IT Market Making DevOps – M/F/D

Société Générale is one of the largest European financial services groups. Based on a diversified universal banking model, the Group combines financial solidity with a strategy of sustainable growth, and aims to be the reference for relationship banking, recognized on its markets, close to clients, chosen for the quality and commitment of its teams. More than 117,000 employees, based in 60 countries, accompany 25 million clients throughout the world on a daily basis.

We are looking for an Intern for a period of 6 to 9 months, starting January 2025.

Take your chance and join our IT team at our SG Branch in Frankfurt!

Mission: 

You will join our Application Trading DevOps team (4 persons in Frankfurt) within a larger group of 30 persons on the applications. The team is responsible for the tooling required by production team supporting one of the most critical applications used by traders in charge of the Market Making of Société Générale Listed Derivatives products. This application is in charge of OTC (Over the Counter) trading, pricing, volatility fitting, risk monitoring, streaming of prices, electronic negotiation in large volumes and high frequency computation & overall data updates.

You will work closely with our Production Support team and our development teams to maintain, develop, improve and decommission tools used by the 2 teams and additionally tools used by our customers, the Trading Floor colleagues in charge of Market Making (Traders and Sales). You will be in charge, together with the DevOps and Production Support teams, of monitoring our productive system and solve or prevent technical issues.

You will be at the heart of an industrial pre-trade information system involving hundreds of servers, processes and applications interacting in real time to allow the business to stream live prices of about 700k financial instruments and to negotiate electronically up to 1 million requests per day.

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Maintain, develop, improve and decommission tools used by teams withing our Market Making application scope
• Maintain well known technologies like ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger and more.
• Evaluate existing tools and formulate improvement proposals
• Investigate Issues raised by Traders through chats, emails, or directly upon request by our production team or on a voluntary base
• Coordinate end-to-end the resolution of an issue, communicate to the management and to the traders about the status and the estimated time of resolution
• Follow-up remediation actions leading to preventing next incidents of the same nature (monitoring enhancements, additional checks, information to users, feature implementations)
• Perform testing of new deliveries in non-productive environments
• Coordinate transversal projects with an impact in our perimeter
• Maintain and develop IT tools that improve the quality and profitability of the trading team
• Automate Front Offices processes
• Improve profitability through data analysis
• Optional: Help on developing Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning and/or Deep Learning)

Studies & experience:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in either Applied Mathematics, Physics, Economics or IT curriculum
• Strong interest in trading related IT technology as you will be working with trading systems and related subsystems
• Some experience working with Relational and non-relational Databases (e.g. Sybase ASE, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasitcSearch), visualization tools (e.g. Grafana), Monitoring tools (e.g. Prometheus, CMAK, others), Machine Learning

Language skills:

• Fluent in English (spoken and written) necessary to work in an international environment

Technical, operational & Soft skills:

• Good knowledge in one of the coding languages: Python, java, C# or VBA is desirable
• Basic knowledge in Finance, specifically in financial and derivative products is a plus
• Basic understanding of Linux, Networking, Shell, Python or other programing/scripting languages
• Excellent communication skills necessary to work with colleagues from different professional and cultural backgrounds.
• Good analytical skills
• Good organizational skills with a high level of attention to detail
• Focus on essentials
• Articulate, friendly and approachable team player
• Ability to work under pressure

Société Générale Germany is a multi-category bank offering every employee the possibility to have several careers in a professional career path. Internal mobility and training are two core areas we focus on, in a dynamic, prosperous and evolving context.

As soon as you arrive, you will be integrated into our teams and will learn every day alongside our experts, who will support you in your tasks. Gradually, you will become more independent in your projects, making this experience a real career accelerator. You will also discover all the diversity of our businesses, in a sector that is constantly evolving and innovating.

At the end of your studies, various opportunities could be offered to you, in Germany and abroad.

At Société Générale, we are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious.

Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating and taking action are part of our DNA.

If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful on a daily basis and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!

Still hesitating?

You should know that our employees can dedicate several days per year to solidarity actions during their working hours, including sponsoring people struggling with their orientation or professional integration, participating in the financial education of young apprentices, and sharing their skills with charities. There are many ways to get involved.