You will be part of the IT Development department, responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining key business applications and
services on our highly-specialized investment product management platform. We value Agility (through SCRUM), Technology (through a
modern micro-services platform built with functional programming in Scala) and Collaboration.
Thanks to a fluid and concentrated organization, frequent communication with end-users and internal training on the investment product
domain you will provide concrete and robust technology solutions to our clients, partners and users.
YOUR TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES Deliver high quality solutions in tight timeframes to meet demanding customer requirements
Work closely with business and other IT units to gather and understand requirements
Contribute to software and architectural design decisions
Contribute to a robust automated test suite to work in a continuous integration / continuous deployment environment
Become involved in the internal DevOps and Scala guilds, building relationships with other developers and identifying / implementing best
practices
Maintain close interaction with the business on very diverse topics: front-end portals to management of long-maturity life insurance products
Nice-to-have
Financial background in either banking or the insurance industry
Cloud migration activities either Public or Private
Experience of working with design thinking techniques in iterative sprints is an advantage to this role
CQRS and event sourcing hands on experience
Knowledge of server-less architecture would be a benefit
DevOps experience configuration management, containers, virtualisation, continuous integration and deployment
Practical experience with Google Cloud Platform
Akka / Akka Persistence / Akka HTTP / Akka Streams
Cats / FS2
Slick
Kafka / event streaming pipelines
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS
Jenkins
Experienced Equity Derivatives Trader to join an expanding team covering APAC with previous exposure to either HK or JP markets. This can be based in either Hong Kong or Singapore.
It is important to have current experience with managing both the book and the risk (not someone who only does automation).
You should ideally have some experience working on a Single stocks structured products desk and trade products such as autocallables (Fixed Coupon Note), accumulator/Decumulators , Bonus Certificate etc.
Experience working on Index structured products desk trade products such as autocallables would also be considered.
To discuss this position further, please apply with a copy of your CV
IT Application Support Analyst– Global Asset Management
Area Overview:
The IT Application Support analyst works in partnership with Development to deploy and support a suite of applications. These include trade capture, risk, order routing, portfolio management, and market connectivity solutions.
Job Description:
The candidate will be required to provide 1st line support to business users. The candidate needs to have good communication and interpersonal skills. The candidate needs to be able to perform varied tasks to support applications, middleware systems, databases and servers to ensure application stability for the user community. We are looking for a team player with a desire to work with a diverse user community.
This is a Front office role with the following responsibilities:
Act as the focal point for managing user inquiries with business applications
Work with vendors, internal development and business to deploy, maintain and configure custom applications and build new environments as required
Train users on functional use of the system
Write and maintain document processes, user guides and test cases
Provide technical solutions to automate processes to improve business operations
Provide coverage on database (MS SQL Server and Oracle)
Create reports for business users using SQL querying database (MS SQL Server and Oracle)
Implement and support cloud architecture (AWS)
Design and develop scripts to automate operational tasks, maintenance and monitoring
Provide after-hours problem escalation coverage
Install patches updates and determine impact on applications
Administer and enforce IT standards and processes
Manage release on production environments
Education/Certification:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Must have experience within the Commodities Trading sector
Our financial client in London is seeking a Head of Commodities IT to head up and oversee their UK based teams.
Overall purpose of the role:
The Head of Global Markets IT UK is responsible of the Global Market IT scope in London.
Breakdown of the role:
90% of the activity based around Commodities IT
10% remaining on other activities in London represents the interface between London business and Head Office IT to escalate requests, needs or issues to Head Office IT and cascade Global Market IT information from Head Office.
The successful candidate will participate on the IT strategy within the Commodities business.
Required Skills/Qualifications/Experience
Personal skills
• Good Commodities knowledge
• Capacity to understand complex IT environment (infrastructure, global chain)
• Strong leadership skills within one or multiple areas below:
• Good communication and synthetic skills
• Good decision-making skills
• Good interpersonal communication skills including negotiation and influencing
• Ability to manage difficult situations
• Capacity to assist, develop and build IT strategy
• Proactivity
Program/Team management
• Capability to participate, assess and challenge project (quote and specification) from initial requirement