Rapid Application Developer - IT Quant
Posted 13 days 15 hours ago by MARGO
Margo is a Tech Native consultancy covering high value-added IT expertise for the market finance industry. We believe that the smart alliance between complex IT topics and the finance area brings the most challenging topics to our consultants: low latency, multithreading, high data volume
Joining Margo as an IT consultant, is the promise to be part of a human-sized company with an internal monitoring and tailor-made training policy that assure you to develop your skills.
Its offers are organised around 3 main expertise: IT Support, Rapid Application Development and Software Development.
Margo is seeking a Rapid Application Developer - IT Quant to integrate its teams within a worldwide corporate and investment bank.
Key Responsibilities
- Use rapid application development techniques for quick turn-around of high-profile projects
- Build the trading framework software, through close interaction with traders and quants
- Support and enhance various ad-hoc infrastructure applications, processes, databases, production surveillance and control tools
- Report and track performance indicators for the front office traders with many aspects of electronic and algorithmic trading, back testing, and data management systems
- Contribute to design and implement data store and its API
- Monitor fetching processes and data health
- Integrate alternative datasets
Financial products
- Forex
- Equities and derivatives
- Emerging markets
- Commodities
- Risk and PnL
- Credit and rates
- Exchange-traded funds
- Convertible bonds
Skills required
- Strong skills in C++ or Java or Python development (depending on the team/project) with good understanding of their ecosystem
- Good database, SQL, VBA knowledge
- Proficient use of common tooling: Git, Unix Shell
- Experience in structured, unstructured data management and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP )
- Proactive and flexible approach to deal with challenges, lean complex quantitative concepts and identify emerging and alternative data
- Interest to work within front-office environment and interact with traders, researchers and business managers
- Ability to work independently within a global team and deliver when under pressure and time constraints