Derivatives Risk Application Developer Glasgow   £Excellent salary and benefits

NetworkersMSB are currently recruiting for an experienced Derivatives Risk Application Developer within the Global Analytics Team for a Leading International Bank.    

 The role will require the successful candidate to:  

·  Develop and maintain product implementations to functional & technical specifications.

· Work within a defined quality assurance process.

· Investigate, debug and resolve issues with pricing the derivative products.

· Becoming familiar with the financial products and other business aspects related to the application.

· Liaise with developers and the business analysts in other locations and to understand requirements and identify technical solutions.

· Liaise and work with those responsibly for the first and second line production support of the application to resolve production issues. This includes assisting trader support teams and other development teams in investigating identify and resolving application related issues.

· In due course participation in the teams' intraday 3rd level support rota.

· In due course participation in the teams' out-of-hours 3rd level support rota. 

Technical Competencies:

· Relational databases (Sybase preferred, with other major database product experience considered)

· SQL/stored procedure programming

·  XML

· Strong analytical skills

· Numerate, comfortable working with numeric data

· A understanding of development processes

· UNIX  (editing files, basic commands)

Essential Experience:

· Experience in a professional development environment preferably in a delivery role

· Strong SQL including performance tuning

· Good team working abilities, including working with remote teams

· Ability to manage dependencies and proactively anticipate and creatively deal with issues

· Working within controlled software development lifecycle processes

Desired Experience:

· Experience in an investment banking environment

· Experience in UNIX shell scripting, use of command line features.

· Programming experience in Java or C++ is not expected but would be of value

Education

Numerical degree or equivalent

Job Reference:   RC-J057620 – DRAD

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