JAVA Developer – Front Office – Trader Solutions – Equity Derivatives

My Tier one Investment banking client are in the market for a JAVA developer to join their Front Office Equity Derivatives team, with a focus on developing desktop solutions for traders. These solutions are developed with C# front ends and JAVA on the server side – but cover RFQ, Deal Entry, market data and pricing.

Required skills: Strong enterprise JAVA experience is required for server side, web services & automated STP feed development. Strong XML experience is required, with the ability to understand and produce XSD schema definitions & XSL transforms. SOAP web services, JUnit / NUnit as well as experience of Ant/Nant or Maven for Build as also required. Candidates should also have experience with JSP / Servlets (be able to understand and develop web applications running under Tomcat) as well as JDBC for connectivity to and Oracle backend.

The JAVA developer will be required to deliver high quality, robust technical solutions for applications supporting up to 300 Front Office users. Alongside this, the JAVA developer will also be involved in architecting & designing solutions which are consistency with the team’s strategy – this will encompass both greenfield work and enhancements to existing designs.

This team is relatively young within the wider Equity Derivatives framework, but has seen incredible growth in terms of trading volumes, global coverage & the revenue it generates for the firm – as such this is an excellent opportunity to make a real difference in a dynamic environment.

For more information, please send in your CV or call in on 02073826485