My client is one of the fastest growing investment banks.  Despite the market turmoil they are growing and looking to start turning their enormous cash piles into market profit.

They have established one of the best trading teams in the market across FICC and the structured credit trading operation is led by one of if not the leading structured credit derivatives figures in the world.

They have now built a word class research team which is led by one of the best quants structured credit quants in the world and he has hired 8 of the best structured credit quants that the world has to offer.

The team are all very strong C++ programmers and they have built a library which is now in place. 

The team is looking for a strong C++ COM expert who will be the teams "in-house" C++ / IT expert.  You will undertake a range of small to medium projects which related to the underlying infrastructure for the structured credit traders and Quants.  These are not just tactical although all strategic projects will be run through the group IT function which is based in Europe.

You will be responsible for wrapping their library in a COM wrapper so that it can be deployed on a 900 CPU grid.  You will also work on XML serialisation and de-serialisation.  You will need to very numerate and they expect you to have a 1^st class degree from a top University at the very minimum.  You will ideally have experience of working on a trading floor with traders and quants although this isn't a pre-requisite.  In terms of C++ you will need to be an expert in particular with templates and template meta-programming.  You must be up to date with the latest techniques in this regard.  There is a strong chance that they will be building their own database within Sybase as the Summit/Sybase database has been poorly designed and has significant performance issues. 

This is one of the most exciting clients and opportunities we have seen in the last 18 months and is an excellent opportunity for someone from IT who wants to move into the business and work with some of the best minds in the business where the money is made and the decision made.

For more information and a confidential discussion, please call me, Desmond Stockdale, directly on +44 203 170 6366 or email me on ds@phipartners.com

To apply:

Please contact Desmond Stockdale on +44 (0) 20 3170 6355 or ds@phipartners.com

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