The Global Leader in Microsoft Recruitment
Established in 2006 in Newcastle UK, Nigel Frank International has rapidly grown into the global leader in Microsoft recruitment. With additional offices in London, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, Dallas, Melbourne and Singapore, we offer our Microsoft Partner and End User clients unparalleled access to the widest range of high calibre candidates.
The front-office strats team continuously challenges the status-quo of the conventional approaches in financial services.
We are seeking bright individuals to join us in building the next generation of analytics systems and products running against large scale complex financial data sets. We are looking for candidates who have:
- Excellent software engineering skills
- Passion to deliver - our job is not done until the system works and makes bottom-line impact
- Quantitative rigour - data is drives everything we do
- Creative drive - we face unique problems daily that require applying unique quantitative approaches
- Great communication skills - as daily coordination with our global teams is essential
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work as part of the strats team. Deliver software components for data flow, analytics and UI from conception to production. Share ownership of end-to-end development and deployment of the front-office system
- Work with large and complex financial data sets unique to our business. Provide insights to data, build visualisations based on quantitative methods
- Interact closely with local and global engineering and other front-office teams
- Work with various technologies including Java/Python or C++, Linux, relational DBs/SQL and Goldman Sachs’ proprietary technologies: Slang and SecDb.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE'RE LOOKING FOR
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong academic background in a quantitative discipline (eg Computer Eng. / Science, Mathematics)
- Strong programming skills in one or more of Java, Python, C++
- Solid understanding of algorithms data structures, hands-on detail-oriented attitude
- Strong knowledge and experience in relational database technologies (eg Sybase/Oracle) and SQL
- Experience with basic automation scripting tasks required in Linux / Unix
- Full software development life-cycle experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Big data tools, distributed/data frameworks (Hadoop, Spark) is a plus
- Exposure/background in financial services/products, front-office background is a plus
- Experience in building data / analytics pipelines is a plus
- Web development experience using AngularJS/JavaScript is a plus
BENEFITS:
- private medical care
- life insurance
- sport club card
- lunch vouchers
- and personal accident insurance