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Form of workSenior Developer
6 month assignment
Jersey City NJ
The primary function of role is to support, maintain and enhance an application called STAR. STAR is a trade processing system responsible for the deal capture of Interest Rates Derivatives , Futures, Bonds, MBS and Secondary Loans, and the subsequent passing of the trades through Middle Office to Back Office, to risk and to reporting systems.
STAR is the backbone of the Rates Trade Processing IT suite.
- Over 2,000 regular users
- Booking over 1.5 million trades a month
- Users across Europe, the Americas and Asia
Typical domain activities:
- Develop new enhancements as requested by the business (this could be from Front, Middle or Back Office). Enhancements can be in the form of new financial products, new booking methods, improving functionality, reacting to audit points, regulatory requirements etc.
- Maintenance - bug fixing, intra-day technical support and infrequent overnight 3 rd line support.
Day to day responsibilities:
- As a developer, the main responsibilities are to design and develop new pieces of software, to enhance existing software to provide new functionality requested by the business and to correct bugs. For the majority of projects Business Analysts provide requirements for the developers to work with.
- In the lead up to a major release, developers are expected to get involved fixing regression bugs, maintaining the automated regression tests and assist with the regression testing of an allocated area of the system.
Technical Environment:
- C++ (Visual Studio 2015 - migrating to VS2022)
- C#.NET 4.8 and .NET 6 in a Windows environment
- CppUnit for unit testing
- Python and Robot for automated regression testing
- Oracle 19c, SQL and stored procedures
Profile: We are looking for candidates with a passion for programming and problem solving with the following skills :
- Good C++ programming skills
- Working in Scrum or another Agile environment
- Strong technical and problem solving skills
- High level of motivation
- Good communication skills
- Ability to work with other teams in remote locations and autonomously in New York
- Experience of technical support for STAR users, plus IT teams that interface with STAR
- Proactive and flexible approach to dealing with challenges
- Fixed Income experience or other financial domain knowledge is desirable, but not mandatory for the right candidate
