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The Foreign Exchange (FX) Trading & Sales desk assists clients in managing their exposure to currency risk by offering a range of financial instruments. This is a critical function for our clients and the firm, and the products offered range from vanilla spot trades to exotic structured derivatives on major and emerging market currencies. In addition, the FX desk also encompasses Emerging Debt Markets desk that actively trades conventional fixed income instruments like bonds and credit derivatives.

Over the past few years, the FX industry has become increasingly electronic, with e-commerce, STP and internal automation being major focus areas for our business leaders and, in turn, the technology team. The business maintains a high trade volume and involves significant risk – technology plays a key part in managing both of these factors.

The FX Trading & Sales Technology team is responsible for building and supporting the systems used to run this business globally. In addition to building many of the e-commerce applications some of the systems under our team's responsibility include applications to perform trade entry, position & risk management, and order management.

FX business has active trading desks in New York, London and Tokyo. Our team has a global imprint with developers in the different locations sharing responsibility for applications development and working closely with the traders and salespeople in those locations to define new requirements.

Foreign Exchange is an incredibly dynamic business and is a growing source of revenue for the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities division, and for the firm in general. Coupled with the drive towards automation and e-commerce, this role should provide a number of challenging opportunities for the analyst/developer.


ROLE SUMMARY:

The role of Analyst/Developer involves a number of different responsibilities:
Create robust technical infrastructure to deliver efficient solutions for FX E-Commerce clients.

In the area of analysis and design, you will work with the traders, salespeople to define requirements for new business initiatives, applications or enhancements to existing tools. We benefit from a set of users that is very focused on technology, so there will be a great deal of contact with the trading and sales users.

Working with other developers on the global team, you will implement, review and test software for the trading desk. This role will require the Analyst/Developer to work on all stages of the software development cycle and with users from several locations.

To maintain a close relationship with the trading and sales users, we are seated on the trading desk, and provide day-to-day support of the applications we have implemented.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

-2 to 8 years of work experience.
-Strong programming skills in one or more procedural/object oriented languages (C/C++, Java).
-Experience with distributed systems and message oriented middleware concepts highly desirable.
-Work experience in financial services industry a plus.
-Working knowledge of UNIX.


RELEVANT SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:
- Either MS in CS/EE from an Ivy League school or a PhD in CS/EE from any other colledge
-Solid communication and interpersonal skills are a must given that the role will involve liasing with traders & salespeople.
-Excellent Analytical skills.
-Experience in developing mission-critical applications.
-Ability to work with other teams to make sure proper standards are followed and also to reuse existing architecture.
-The firm and the department are very focused on using technology to increase profitability, so it is also critical that the person in this role is willing and able to adapt to different technologies to achieve that goal.


PROBABLE DAILY ACTIVITIES OF A NEW EMPLOYEE:

-Implementing new software and enhancements to existing systems
-Meeting with users to understand business flows and define requirements.
-Contributing to Quality Control (Code/Design reviews)
-Understanding system Infrastructure and how Currency Trading business functionality applies to it.
-Production support.

Email resume in Word to jeffaltman@cisny.com ONLY IF YOU HAVE THE EXPERIENCE SOUGHT. Please include the job code with the position.

NO RELOCATION. NO VISA TRANSFERS. NO 3RD PARTIES. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES.

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