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Employer:  Citi Group
Job Ref No:  12000092
Job Title:  Derivatives Technical Specialist
Sector:  Other
Sub Sector:  Other
Risk Type:  Other
Expertise:  Risk Manager
This technical lead role compromises building, enhancing and supporting a front office risk application for commodity options.

The system will be used by traders globally to calculate intraday risk using a distributed compute grid, and generate a number of user level reports.

The candidate will have direct exposure to the traders and quantitative analysts.

As technical lead the candidate will report to the project manager and be expected to deliver on technology initiatives, industry best-practice, document and fully test the teams work. The candidate will also work with other team members in our development teams in Houston, India and Singapore.

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.Key Responsibilities:
  • Influence design and architecture
  • Interface to the qa team
  • 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:
  • Derivatives, specifically options knowledge
  • Windows and Linux development platforms
  • Desire to implement industry best practice
  • Investment Banking experience
  • Commodity, Interest-rate derivative, FX, Equity 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
  • Technical leadership
Qualifications:

Scientific/Numerical degree such as Mathematics, Computing, Engineering, etc.
Exceptional candidates who do not meet these criteria may be considered for the role provided they have the necessary skills and experience.
Competencies:
Valuing Diversity:
Demonstrates an appreciation of a diverse workforce. Appreciates differences in style or perspective and uses differences to add value to decisions or actions and organizational success.
Employment Type:  Full Time
Region/Country:  Europe, UK
City:  London
Address: 
02/10/2012

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