RAD Quantitative Developer
Company: BlueCrest Capital Management
Location: New York
Posted on: May 2, 2024
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Job Description:
Job Title: RAD Quantitative Developer
Location: New York
Department: Technology
Permanent
Department Overview:
The front office RAD technology team are responsible maintaining
and building trading desk tools, both bespoke to pods and general
to a desk.
The team sits within the Front office technology group which also
contains Quant Research and the Risk and Data Technology teams.
Role Overview:
The primary focus of this role is to face off to the traders and to
meet any of their RAD tool requirements. These requirements vary
from the small e.g. risk reports using data outputted from core
systems, to the large e.g. trading workflow and risk systems,
scenario tools etc.
Any technology can be used to fulfil these requirements and a
pragmatic approach has to be taken at all times, key factors are;
time to market, is it fit for purpose, code reusability. The
traders prefer Excel front ends, hence there is a lean to this
technology, but these excel front ends are generally underpinned by
C# library functions, Mongo and Sql Server databases.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with front office
experience to further grow their exposure to cross-asset products
and to deliver a solution whose benefits are highly visible and
desired by the business sponsors.
Experience required:
At least 4 years Finance / Technology. Plus strong technical or
mathematical degree.
Essential: C#, Excel, Sql Server, VBA, & Front office
development,Fixed income and Derivatives business knowledge.
Desirable: Commodities, FX, Equity business knowledge. Python
About You:
In this role you must be self-motivated and able to face off to
senior business users on the trading desks and the risk desk. You
must be able to gather requirements, design elegant but pragmatic
solutions and implement them through to release.
This is a highly technical role, requiring the ability to
understand oo and how to build re-usable library functions within
the code quant library framework. This implies that the candidate
should be very comfortable with the full software development
lifecycle and should be able to demonstrate adherence to best
practices in all areas of their work.
Delivery is key in this role as is the ability to balance rapid BAU
change whilst progressing with longer term strategic
development.
BlueCrest is committed to providing an inclusive environment for
its workforce. As an employer, we provide equal opportunities to
all people regardless of their gender, marital or civil partnership
status, race, religion or ethnicity, disability, age, sexual
orientation or nationality.
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Keywords: BlueCrest Capital Management, Bloomfield , RAD Quantitative Developer, IT / Software / Systems , New York, New Jersey
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