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Vacancy IT
Post London, Front Office Lead Developer REC510
Location London
Country United Kingdom
Post Number REC510

 

Job Title:

Front Office Lead Developer

 

Work Area:

Front Office Development Team

 

Main purpose of Job:

The role is to act as the technical design authority for the front office trading applications team. Reporting to the Front office IT Head, they will set the technical direction of the development team and manage the team’s technical work. This will involve designing, implementing, testing, and supporting applications and also analysis and writing of specifications.

 

People Management Responsibility:

Small team of developers

 

Typical Key Responsibilities:

 

  • Setting the priorities of the developers within the team, reviewing their work and acting as technical mentor

  • Devising possible solutions to technical problems, evaluating alternative solutions.

  • Involvement in day to day development and support activities in conjunction with team members

  • Interact directly with business users to gather and analyze business requirements thus establishing a detailed software requirements specification.

  • Interacting with 3rd party software vendors to evaluate technical fitness of solutions and interfacing with their architects to produce architectural roadmaps.

  • Taking direction from the Head of front office system as to the business requirements and priorities

Minimum Experience/Knowledge/Skills (Competencies):

 

We would generally expect the candidate to be educated to at least degree level in either Computer Science or another hard science or engineering discipline and a true passion for delivering quality software

 

ESSENTIAL

  • Circa 7+ years experience with Object Oriented languages (C++, C# or Java etc.)
  • Strong in at least on scripting language such as Perl, Python or Ruby.
  • Knowledge of trading fundamentals
  • Extensive knowledge of design patterns, refactoring, unit testing, automated regression testing and continuous integration.
  • Knowledge of Agile Methodologies (Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, DSDM, or other)
  • Understanding of modern source code management techniques
  • Experience of managing a small dynamic development team
  • Experience of scalable, high performance systems design, and performance optimisation techniques
  • The desire and ability to learn new technologies quickly
  • The ability to inspire others to create great code

DESIRABLE:

 

Experience with any of the following areas is desirable

  • a variant of Unix
  • Automated build and deployment skills
  • Commodities trading (physical & derivatives)

Reporting Structure: Front Office IT Head

 

Key relationships: Business Clients, Developers, DBAs, Testers & Support team

 

How to apply:

To apply for this Job please send your CV and a cover letter, stipulating which job you are applying for to the following email: hrjobs@trafigura.com

 

Please include the reference number and job title of the role you are applying to in the subject line of the email.