Luxoft is a global leader in high-end software development.
Luxoft is looking for talents with a passion for technology & ready to create original solutions. Once on board, you are invited to expand your knowledge & skills, offering you a continuous learning experience helping you stretch your potential.
So if you’re enthusiastic by the idea of accessing cutting edge technology & innovation to make an impact, why don't you join us?
- Work with project business and system analysts to clarify the requirements and then implement them
- Participate in code reviews
- Enforce standards and best practices
- Participate in Agile SDLC
- Proficient in .NET related stack of technologies, desktop applications and large scale cloud services for extensive calculations
- Strong Front-end skills (ASP, HTML, Java Script)
- Strong DB experience (MS SQL)
- Hands on experience in WCF, Web API, RESTful, SOAP, IIS
- Experience in Python and/or Java is a plus
- Experience with JIRA, GIT, TeamCity
- Understanding of Agile SDLC, Continuous Integration, Automated Testing, User Acceptance Testing processes
- Familiarity with financial markets, trading and investment management
- Very good communication skills
- Advanced spoken and written English
- Be quick learner and have a desire to learn the domain and its business processes
- Ready for the business trips (up to 3 months of initial knowledge transfer in LA is required)
The Customer:
Our Customer is one of the world's largest investment management companies. Based in Southern California, our client manages close to $2 trillion in assets and is looking for a new partner to participate in a full scale upgrade of their technology. We are looking for talented and ambitious people to work on the first engagement in the client's offices near Los Angeles, California. We have a huge opportunity to impress them and earn a large share of their new and existing business.
Overall project's description: Improvements in vehicle agnostic process
Applications involved:
1) Axioma Portfolio Optimizer (Portfolio Optimizer) - Commercial of the shelf (COTS) solution 2) Axioma Adapter - 'in-house' solution allowing reference data to be loaded into Portfolio Optimizer 3) Tableau reporting - tool for visualization of vehicle alignment results
Business Context: Vehicle Agnostic Alignment
By design fund investments are available to a certain number of (regions, securities, industries and etc) Vehicle concept was invented to make investment services possible for a wider range of clients. The ultimate goal for re-alignment process is to bring vehicle's return divergence as close as possible to underlying funds.
The business process of vehicle alignment by design have:
1) Intraday alignment transactions into vehicle in order to keep it within defined tolerance thresholds; 2) Continuous Vehicle Investment Decision Maker reviews of holdings and cash balances of the vehicle in relation to the fund; 3) Continuous reviews by Quantitative Research & Analytics Group (QRA) in order to determine a basket of securities / alternatives for vehicle investments;
The company successfully lunched pilot that proofed the concept of agnostic alignment in 2015-2016 and looking at phased implementation for a number of funds. As a result, some of the approaches that were suitable for pilot phase has to be adjusted.
The focus of this engagement is to allow scalability of the vehicle agnostic process as well as assistance to QRA / Vehicle Investment Decision Maker via visualized reporting platform.