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Analyst/Programmer

ROLE SUMMARY:
The role is for a Analyst/Programmer, to work in the global Derivatives Trade Capture team. It will involve working across a variety of Front-Office led technology projects, with a particular focus on developing and improving Credit Suisse’s strategic Trade Capture & Processing systems in the Flow, Exotic & Structured Notes products spaces, and improvements to the STP of these products to Back-Office systems & groups.

THE ROLE INVOLVES: 
  • Partnering with fellow IT colleagues and clients in the Front Office, Middle Office, Operations etc. to design and then implement solutions for complex business problems in the Flow, Exotic and Structured Notes product spaces:

o Design, Development and Testing of in-house solutions.
o Assisting Business Analysts and Software Architects converting business requirements into system solutions.
o Helping technology management to establish project scope and define priorities and timeframes.
o Monitoring, managing and reporting personal progress.
o Assist with System Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
o Assist with User Training.
o Provide 2nd-level support.

  • Working with Front & Middle Office users and Senior IT Management, along with Operations, Product Control and fellow Technology professionals, to understand, capture and manage requirements for improving and expanding the Derivatives business’s technology platform and its related business processes, on a global and regionally-specific basis. 
  • Contributing to the overall effectiveness of the Derivatives IT department. 
  • Play an active role in defining and improving the departmental Development and Support processes. 
  • Candidate may be expected to work some non-standard hours from time-to-time to participate in projects with New York and Singapore colleagues. Some week-end work is expected due to the global 24x6 nature of our systems, which limit opportunities for some changes in the production environment.

DIVISION/DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW:
The Credit Suisse IT department is responsible for the development and upkeep of all information technology systems within the bank.

The Derivatives IT division is a ‘front to back’ organization providing IT Development and Support for CS’s OTC Derivatives Business for front, middle and back office applications used by the global OTC derivatives business for interest rate, credit and equity derivatives, options and fund linked products. It is in the process of a radical redesign of its IT systems and architecture to meet the challenges of a major increase in trading volumes as well as improved STP and control. It encompasses both Front Office and Back Office IT teams and is closely aligned with the Derivatives Support Group – CS’s OTC Business division.

This role is within the Derivatives Trade Flow department within the Derivatives IT Division.

Derivatives Trade Flow provides development and support globally for OTC Derivatives trade processing across all trading entities and clusters within CS. The Department is responsible for many Business applications including TerraFirma, DOMAN, DTD, Trade Servers, JETS and documentation and settlement systems.

The brief of the department is to work with the users to design the optimum Straight Through Processing and control processes for all products, and to deliver solutions either through in-house development or implementation of third party products as well as support our legacy systems.

The architecture must be global, multi-entity (i.e. entity independent) and volume insensitive. The department also services market driven initiatives.

TO QUALIFY YOU MUST POSSESS: 
  • Applicants should have a strong Computer Science, Engineering, Arts or other Science degree, or equivalent commercial experience 
  • Applicants will ideally have a good Computer Science degree. 
  • 2-5 years commercial software development on multi-threaded GUI or server-side systems in medium-sized projects (4-6 people). 
  • Note that applicants will be working on a mixture of GUI and server-side components, so a flexible approach and a can-do attitude is a must. 
  • Must have developed GUI based applications in a structured environment. 
  • Interest in financial markets and an eagerness to get into Investment Banking IT is assumed, but experience is not required. 
  • Strong knowledge of and exposure to structured software development. 
  • Understand concepts of and will have worked under source code configuration management policies and tools. 
  • Candidates will have strong communication skills, proven ability to talk to users as well as other IT colleagues, and must be willing and able to work in a pressurised, results-driven environment 
  • Experience working in a dynamic environment 
  • Must of worked in team environment 
  • Investment Banking background 
  • Experience working in a dynamic work environment 
  • Full project lifecycle experience - i.e. requirements gathering, technical architecture, detailed design, build, unit, system, integration & user acceptance testing, release management and post-release support. 
  • Worked closely with QA/BA team 
  • Strong C# / .Net 2.0/3.5 framework. 
  • Visual Studio .NET 2005/2008 
  • Windows Forms/ WPF development 
  • Web Services oriented architecture 
  • Database & system design experience using Oracle or Sybase. 
  • PL/SQL (Oracle). 
  • Source & Version Control. 
  • COM Interoperability 
  • WCF 
  • Agile development technologies 
  • Commercial version control system (Rational ClearCase, Subversion). 
  • Exposure to industry quality standards such as CMM or CMMi. 

As one of the world's leading financial services group, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Founded in 1856, Credit Suisse has a long tradition of meeting the complex financial needs of a wide range of clients, offering advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally. The Credit Suisse Group is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 40,000 people. Further information can be found at www.credit-suisse.com.

Cultural diversity is essential to our success. As such, we employ people from more than 100 countries. Credit Suisse empowers employees to work openly and respectfully with each other and with clients, ultimately striving to deliver superior results while offering initiatives and programs to assist employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Credit Suisse is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of any protected category.

To the extent permitted or required by applicable law, a candidate who is offered employment will be subject to a criminal record check and other background checks before the appointment is confirmed.

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