Location : NYC,NY
Duration : 6+ Month Contract
Short Description :
Sr Front End C # - WPF/Winforms Developer Equity Derivatives
Main Function
This contractor level hire will undertake a C#/ WPF development role within the Desktop Solutions team in Equity Derivatives Technology. The Desktop Solutions team delivers sales and trader facing applications to solve problems covering RFQ, Deal Entry, market data and pricing. This particular project entails introducing trade capture for exotic options for the structured flow desk into our existing system. Products such as barrier options, cliques, reverse convertibles, etc. Our application will handle the Sales and Trading workflow, termsheet generation, trade capture and interaction with the official books and records application. The team takes projects from initiation through to delivery and hands over to first line support team.
The person fulfilling this role carry out all the defined duties and responsibilities to enable the team to continue delivering high profile, high value projects.
Person Requirements
• C# / WPF
• Asynchronous messaging - Solace, SmartSockets or similar for pub sub. MQ for queue-based messaging.
• Nunit
able to follow continuous integration, test driven development approach using Nunit and other development tools.
• XML – able to understand and produce XSD schema definitions and XSL transforms. Use from within Java and .NET applications using standard DOM/XPath APIs.
Must be able to select appropriate, possibly unfamiliar, technologies for a task and use them to implement solutions to tight deadlines. Should be keen and able to use unfamiliar technologies through self study.
Other useful technologies
• VBA/Excel
• Worked in Agile
• Good knowledge of Equity Derivatives and Trade life-cycle.
• Java
Interpersonal/Team skills:
• Team player who can balance individual objectives with those of the team.
• Strong communicator who will use both verbal and written communication with team members, other members of IT and business stakeholders. Able to influence others to achieve win-win outcomes.
• Use initiative to highlight any issues or risks to project success and suggest solutions. Should use own knowledge where possible but proactive about effectively using the time of others.
• Able to review work undertaken or being planned by others, highlight issues and recommend solution.
C# language skills to a very advanced level on features up to C#3
Design skills
Proper TDD (test driven Dev) using Mocking frameworks (experience in any is fine but we are currently using RhinoMocks)
IOC containers (again, experience in any is fine but we are currently using Castle)\
WPF and MVVM
Domain experience (IB – Equity Derivatives preferred).
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