Front Office Pricing Developer

29 Jun 2024

Vacancy expired!

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Position:Lead Specialty Software Engineer

Location:
NEW YORK, New York, 10017

Term:
12 months

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
  • Lead complex initiatives on selected domains.
  • Ensure systems are monitored to increase operational efficiency and managed to mitigate risk.
  • Define opportunities to maximize resource utilization and improve processes while reducing cost.
  • Lead, design, develop, test and implement applications and system components, tools and utilities, models, simulation, and analytics to manage complex business functions using sophisticated technologies.
  • Resolve coding, testing and escalated platform issues of a technically challenging nature.
  • Lead team to ensure compliance and risk management requirements for supported area are met and work with other stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives.
  • Mentor less experienced software engineers.
  • Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including managers.
  • Lead team to achieve objectives.
  • Partner with production support and platform engineering teams effectively.

Is this a good fit? (Requirements):
  • Must have a deep understanding of:
    • Implementing pricing applications in Excel and various optimization associated with Excel programming, as well as experience working on industrialization of the spreadsheets (i.e. proper deployment of the Excel based apps to multiple traders).
  • Domain knowledge of derivatives trading, pricing, and the models employed, in addition to all the soft market data that are needed for computing these models.
  • Hands on experience with Bloomberg API, Reuters API in Excel.
  • Have experience with the best practices of Agile/and test driven programming.
  • 4+ years of VBA/Excel developments.
  • 8+ years of C# programming experience, core C#, backend or frontend.
  • 4+ years of working with traders/front office in the pricing of financial derivatives in a RAD (Rapid Application Development) environment.
  • BS/BA in numerate fields
  • 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

Desired Qualifications:
  • Strong Excel knowledge and disciplined way of working with spreadsheets.
  • Experience working with scheduling systems like AutoSys.
  • Experience deploying application on Windows servers.
  • Experience building distributed applications.

Equal Employment Opportunity

MATRIX is committed to providing a work environment that values diversity, equity, inclusion and respect. We do not discriminate based upon race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status (including registered domestic partnership status), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender (including gender identity and expression), age (40 and over), sexual orientation, military and veteran status and/or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

MATRIX is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable. If you are a qualified individual with a disability, you may request a reasonable accommodation under the American Disability Act (ADA) by emailing MATRIXHR@MatrixRes.com. To ensure a quick response to your request, please use the words "Accommodation request" as the subject line of your email.

For hourly W2 contract roles MATRIX offers a highly competitive benefit package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, HSA, and 401(k) with pre and post-tax options. Please see MatrixRes.com/Benefits for more information. For direct hire placement with our clients, benefits will be offered in accordance with that particular client's offerings. This may include PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K and other pre and post-tax options.

  • ID: #43690431
  • State: New York New york city 10017 New york city USA
  • City: New york city
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2022-06-29
  • Deadline: 2022-08-27
  • Category: Et cetera