WPF Developer

Sr. WPF Developer

Position: Contract- Hire

Visa: ,

Location, New York, NY

Length: 6 Month

DESCRIPTION

Company Profile

Our Client is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. Our Client can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Technology

Technology works as a strategic partner with our client business units and the world's leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. Our Client sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative trading systems, cutting-edge modelling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools. Our insights, our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients' businesses and to our own.

Institutional Corporate Technology (ICT)

Institutional Corporate Technology (ICT) is part of Technology. This group is responsible for developing enterprise applications for a diverse set of businesses including Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities, Investment Banking, Research, and Global Capital Markets. In addition, ICT provides technology solutions for client-aligned groups and company-wide divisions, such as Finance and Operations, post-trade functions within the Institutional Securities Group and standardized data and enterprise-wide services to provide leverage to the Firm's businesses.

Position Description

Sr. Level GUI developer to support pricing, trading, position and risk management of Fixed Income products using .Net (C#/WPF) and Web (HTML5) technologies.

Key Responsibilities
- Custom development of C#/.NET/WPF GUI components, integrating with existing server components (written in C++/Java/KDB) for pricing, trading, position and risk management
- Custom development of HTML5 components, integrating with existing kdb components for pricing, trading, position and risk management
- Active role in the design, development, testing and delivery of the overall system
- Build interface for controlling pricing and viewing risk more effectively, simplifying their controls for market-making and hedging.
- Deliver an integrated trader desktop across various Fixed Income trading desks*LI-ND1

QUALIFICATIONS

Skills Required
- Strong, prior experience as a C#/.NET user interface developer.
- Composite Application Design, .NET (4.x), WPF/WinForms, LINQ, Rx
- User interface / user experience design
- Multi-threaded application development, handling rapidly changing data, e.g. price streams
- Good problem solving skills

- Good communication skills is a must as this role involves working with the traders
- Highly motivated, results oriented and self-sufficient

- Experience working in Financial industry
- Fixed Income (Agencies: CMO/CMBS/MBS/US Agencies) knowledge
- HTML5 knowledge
- Database knowledge
- Ability/motivation to do some quick scripting in Perl/Korn Shell*