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The Deal Capture group has recently been formed as a global team servicing all the Deal Capture needs for IRG and Forex. The team is concerned with the support, development and release of the various systems within the deal capture suite. The systems are used globally with major server hubs in London, NY, Tokyo and Singapore. The applications supported are used by Trading, Sales and Middle office.
There are 4 main applications managed by the Deal Capture group - FXT, Monaco, Star and Martini. They all, with the exception of Martini, in-house developed systems written in C++ 6.0/MFC, Oracle and based on a windows 2003/XP platform. Martini is a third party system used for Repo deal capture which links into the Star platform.
The Deal capture group is made up of several teams Support, Regression, Architecture, Configuration Management, Swaps development, Bonds/Repo development and FX development.
Job Description
EM ref - WP82
The FX Development role is specifically concerned with in-house development on the FXT platforms. The current focus for the group is concerned with re-evaluating the system design and integrating with the other Deal Capture applications while still continuing to deliver value to the business.
The FXT/Monaco application was put into production approximately 10 years ago. It has 3 major processing hubs globally (New York, Singapore and London). All sites are kept in sync with each other at all times and the application is now used in over 20 trading sites globally. It is currently under going a massive re-engineering program where key aspects of the architecture are being evaluated and a strategy for moving the application forward is being developed. This is being done while still continuing to add value to the business by adding new functionality to the existing framework.
The system has initially been developed using VC++ 6.0 on an NT4 platform. It implements a client-server model using Windows sockets, RV and MQ series. The back end database has recently been migrated from Ingres to Oracle and from NT4 to Win2K.
The FX Development team consists of 12 developers including 8 in London and 4 in Mumbai, who work closely with the FX BA team and the Deal Capture support and regression teams. The Deal Capture group has approximately 100 personnel consisting of developers, testers, BAs and configuration managers. Each developer provides overnight and intra-day support according to a rota. Overnight support is approximately done once every 5 weeks.
To be part of a 4-5 developers based in London, working in cooperation with the team in Mumbai (8 developers). On a daily basis, to design and develop new pieces of software or to enhance existing software to provide new functionality or to correct bugs. The quality of the code produced is very important, in particular, regarding maintainability and performances. The successful candidate would also be able to help to enhance his teams' quality by performing code reviews, providing recommendations to improve the legacy code and refactor inappropriate code.
To get involved in support if a major problem in production arises.
Finally, in the lead up to a major release, they would be expected to get involved with the regression testing of an allocated area of the system. |
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Bachelors
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English : Speak / Write Fluently
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EU National |
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Excellent C++/Windows; SQL on a relational database ; STL; XML
High level of motivation
Fluent English
Strong development methodology (code review, source control, build.)
Good communication skills (to liaise daily with teams in London and Mumbai, with the users, management, etc.)
TDD and agile methodology
C #
Experience of porting c++ projects to c#.
Previous experience in financial services.
Windows sockets; RV ; Visual Studio 2008 |
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BNP Paribas is a European leader in global banking and financial services and one of the six strongest banks in the world according to Standard & Poor's. |
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BNP Paribas
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