Technical Specialist Job Details

An experienced developer is required to join the Commodities Technology team in Singapore. The role compromises building, enhancing and supporting a front office application.
This is an exciting opportunity for a developer with exceptional programming skills in C#.
The system will be used by traders globally to calculate risk using a distributed compute grid, and generate a number of user level reports.
The candidate will have direct exposure to the traders / research quantitative analysts.
As a developer, the candidate will be expected to contribute to and deliver on technology initiatives, industry best-practice, document and fully test his/her work. The candidate will also work with other team members in our development teams in Houston, India and London.

Job Background/context:

• The Commodities technology group provides application development and support to the Commodities business globally. This includes Trading, Sales and Marketing, Risk Management, the Financial Division and Operations.
• The current team structure is relatively flat which enables the organisation to rapidly deploy the most suitable team to meet the specific client needs. This means that the successful candidates will need to be flexible, multi-tasking and able to excel in a constantly changing environment.
• Very Good programming, analytical and problem solving, communication skills are must for this job.
  

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to system development such that it remains open and flexible to expand to additional asset classes and systems.
• Implement industry best-practice across the development and production environment.

Key Relationships:

• Trading desks
• Fixed Income Quantitative Analysis
  Risk Management
• Finance/Product Control

Development Value:

• The candidate will have the opportunity to gain exposure to this business area through interaction with the desk, risk
  management and research.
• The candidate will have the opportunity to work within an innovative team to implement modern and best-practice
  software techniques.

Knowledge/Experience:

• Windows development platforms
• Desire to implement industry best practice
• Investment Banking experience
• Commodity, Interest-rate derivative or Fixed Income experience
• Experience in developing/supporting scalable, highly fault tolerant distributed systems desirable

Skills:

• Strong C#
• Strong SQL
• OO Design and Patterns
• Exceptional problem solving ability
• Exceptional communication skills

Qualifications:

• Scientific/Numerical degree such as Mathematics, Computing, Engineering, etc.

Others:

• Must be a self-starter and be able to work independently.
• Highly analytical, organized, pro-active and detail oriented.