STRUCTURED NOTES TRADING PLATFOM DEVELOPMENT

Job Description

WHO WE AREQuanteam Group is a Consulting firm specialised in the Capital Markets industry, in Paris, London, Brussels, New York and North Africa.Since 2007, our 800 consultants provide major clients (Corporate & Investment Banks, Asset Managers, Hedge Funds, Brokers and Insurance Companies) with expertise in several projects such as Financial Engineering, Quantitative Research, Regulatory Implementation,IT Transformation & Innovation.The firm mainly takes part in:Business consulting: Quantitative research, Risk management (e.g. Market risk, credit risk, counterparty risk), Banking regulations (e.g. Basel III, Solvency II, FATCA, EMIR, MiFID), Pricing & Valuation, Organisational Transformation & Process Improvement.IT & Information systems consulting: Business Analysis, Project Management, Change management, Front Office Support (functional and technical), Development (e.g C++, Python, C#, Java, VBA), Financial Softwares (e.g. Sophis, Murex, Summit, Calypso), IT Transformation& Innovation.As part of Quanteam Group, Quanteam UK (incorporated in 2010) has today more than 80 consultants, working for major Capital Markets players in London.THE PROJECTOur client an American Global Investment Bank is looking for engineers to develop a structured notes trading platform for their Pre Trade Equities Team.Our client would like to build an agile Structured Notes Trading platform in order to get rid of used, old and manual processes they used to operate with. They want their platform to be able to handle RFQs that can support structured notes, amongst otherfeatures. It will be used for booking, it must show the representation of notes themselves clearly as well as being able to provide risk and accuracy of the notes identified. They have been working on it for a year or so now, and would like to acceleratethe pace of development, which they anticipate will take 2-3 years. They currently have a high-level architecture, which will require a more in-depth analysis, as this need to become a globally consistent platform.Their team, on the technical and quantitative side, is growing and both will play a vital role in developing the platform and the team around it. Our client must reinforce their technical teams at the backend and the frontend as well.RESPONSIBILITIESThe developers will need to act as subject matter experts bringing in their counsel and insight to advise our client on what components will be needed, what they should do with these components, and how they should use them optimally.SKILLS AND EXPERIENCEMUST HAVES

• Experience in building similar systems, or have worked on similar projects
• Knowledge of structured notes/product
• Strong functional expertise
• Python based services, HTML 5 REACT, Connectivity
• Knowledge of FinSemble and OpenFin containers. Strongly required.

GENERAL SKILLS

• Must understand the challenges around the product modelling from an IT feasibility point of view (the product modelling will be done by the Quant team)

• Binding between UI & data
• Build agile systems so that in case the product set needs to be increased, they can add new products easily, without going through radical changes (such as, changing coding lines in the blotter for instance).

OPTIONAL SKILLS

• Knowledge of Quartz