VIE Electronic Trading Development Analyst

The Global Business Service Unit ("GBSU") department has worldwide responsibility for supplying Global Banking and Investor Solutions ("GBIS") with all the technology and operations resources necessary for them to function under competitive conditions in terms of technological standards, service quality and cost.

The GBSU technology division is responsible for front-office systems development globally, supporting trading activity in America, Europe and Asia. Focusing on Fixed Income, our group provides pricing tools, negotiation engines, market connectivity and other trading system applications. The New York and Montreal teams supports the rapidly growing New York trading desks with a combination of in-house and vendor systems. All teams in our group are co-located on the trading floor and have daily interactions with our users.

The Pre-Trade front office group supports the AMER Rates Desk.  Our functions include but not limited to business analysis, price distribution, trading tools development and reporting. We work as a global team with members located in New York, Montreal, London and Paris.

Tasks and responsibilities:

The position is for a C#/.Net developer who will work with the electronic trading team. The electronic trading team develops and supports software in an AGILE environment for price/inventory publication, inquiry management and straight through processing of electronic trades. Our software interacts with various external electronic trading systems and exchanges such as Bloomberg, Tradeweb, BrokerTec, Trad-X, MarketAxess,etc.

The position involves developing our strategic trading tool for dealer to client, and inter-dealer trading across Fixed Income. This position includes client and server-side development. The candidate will be involved in the entire development lifecycle including working with business analysts and working with the team through testing campaigns. The candidate will be expected to follow agile, continuous delivery and change management processes. The team follows a DevOps model, therefore the candidate will be required to work closely with the support team as well.

Primary tasks include, but are not limited to\:

- Building applications for various front office businesses

- ensuring all data and flows between other trading and settlement applications are maintained

- Managing each initiative given by management from start to end, meaning\:

- Work with users and business analysts to understand user needs and translate requirements into systems

- Work with senior developer to propose designs and implement the project accordingly

- Estimate effort and ensure timely delivery

- Ensure agile and continuous delivery methodology is followed

- Ensure code is well tested

-  Ensure that release management / change management processes are followed

-  Be responsible for the 2nd and 3rd level of support

- Assist the support team in the rollout of releases

- Give clear and consistent reports to the clients and management

- Collaborate with other teams (networking, systems, quality insurance, support, architects, others development teams)

- Rely on IT best practices to improve quality of development

- Participate as a motivated, proactive and highly contributing member of the global team

- Manage several streams of work concurrently

Due to the VIE eligibility criteria, a questionnaire will be provided. Please make sure to answer all the questions for an efficient analysis of your application.

PLEASE NOTE that since this program is primarily an international development program, candidates cannot apply to a VIE assignment in their own country of citizenship.

To facilitate the examination of your application by our English-speaking managers, we thank you for applying in English.

Studies & experience:

• Graduate with a Master's degree in Computer Science or related subject

• A degree in Finance is a plus 

Language skills:

• Fluent in English

Technical, operational & soft skills:

• Thorough knowledge of object-oriented programming

• Strong technical skills in .Net C#

• Multithreaded application development knowledge

• Understanding of messaging technologies

• Strong knowledge of programming design patterns including MVVM

• Source control tools, preferably Git.

• Understanding of agile development practices

• Proficient in Dependency Injection and Entity Framework

• Experience in CI/CD frameworks and standard DevOps tools (TeamCity, Jenkins, JIRA, ...)

• Knowledge of Fixed Income Products such as Bonds and IRS is a plus.

• Knowledge of Electronic trading (dealer to client and inter-dealer) is a plus

• Good written & verbal communication skills

• Analytical skills

• Rigorous

• Dynamic, detail oriented, fast learning capacity and able to work in a high-pressure environment

The VIE assignment in a nutshell

This VIE in Montreal is to begin on November 1st, 2024, but you need to plan 3 months between your application date and the beginning of your VIE assignment. It will last 24 months.

In case a visa is necessary, please make sure your passport is valid up to 6 months after the end of the VIE contract to not delay your departure.

The VIE is a specific contract, under Business France's eligibility criteria, opened to candidates under 28 and from the member states of the European Economic Space. For further information (including your financial indemnities), please see Mon VIE-VIA Business France.