C# Front Office Developer

Environment

Within SOCIETE GENERALE’s corporate and investment banking arm, the ITEC Client and Trading Technology group is responsible for front-office systems development globally. Within this organization our department provides trader pricing and market-making tools and other trading system applications. The New York team is part of a global organization supporting trading activity in America, Europe and Asia. The New York team supports the rapidly growing New York trading desk with a combination of locally developed and global systems. This is an in-house development team spanning both tactical and strategic solutions aiming to provide quick solutions that can grow to permanent solutions that can be leveraged globally.

As part of the pre-trade IT department, the ABP development team is in charge of the development and support of all the pricers, risk and reporting tools of the AB business. The team provides an agile development capability to develop front-office solutions quickly for various US-based small to medium sized projects. This team of 4 people is based in the dealing room and manages applications deployed in Paris, London, New York and Asia.

Mission

Projects will involve working with ITEC and Front Office sponsors to build out the technology platform to support the needs of the ABP (Asset Backed Products) Trading Business.

Primary tasks include but are not limited to:
Work directly with the ABP traders, Risks managers to get their needs and support them (Sup level 1,2 & 3)

Leverage on the global tools and framework to provide Pricing and Reporting tools

Defining the architecture for new developments

Managing each initiative given by management from start to end

Work closely with the Quant team in order to integrate the new library into the systems

Collaborate with others teams (networking, systems, architects, others development teams..)

Improve existing processes in order to reduce support time.

Maintain pricing tools, optimize usage, monitoring

Give clear and consistent reports to the clients and management

Ensure business requirements are met

Ensure that release management / change management processes are followed

Document, train users and team members in your area of expertise

Rely on IT best practices to improve quality of his development

Leverage new technology (Big data, web UI) to deliver “Digital” tool to the clients

Profile

Competencies

Required:
Good written & verbal communication skills, appropriate to a given audience, (technical, functional, etc.), ability to communicate to a wide range of clients and support staff – traders, middle office, development, infrastructure

Experience in financial products (better if in the Fixed Income area) / financial industry business processes / trading system

Strong knowledge in risk analysis and pricing

Analytical skills

Rigorous

Dynamic, detail oriented, fast learning capacity and able to work in a high pressure environment, able to manage multiple tasks in parallel

Desired/ Plus:
Algorithmic skills

Strong knowledge of programming design patterns

Technical skills

Required:
.Net C# 4.0/4.5

VBA / Excel

SQL Server

Strong object-oriented programming skills