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AHL Electronic Trading Developer

Location:
London
Business unit:
Technology Group
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Contract term:
Permanent
Posted date:
13 Jul 2010
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Man is a world-leading alternative investment management business. With a broad range of funds for institutional and private investors globally, it is known for its performance, innovative product design and investor service. Man manages around $40 billion.

The original business was founded in 1783. Today, Man Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100 Index with a market capitalisation of around £4 billion.

Man Group is a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and the FTSE4Good Index. Man also supports many awards, charities and initiatives around the world, including sponsorship of the Man Booker literary prizes. Further information can be found at www.mangroupplc.com.

AHL Electronic Trading Developer [3441]

This is an outstanding opportunity to join one of the most prestigious technology teams in algorithmic trading.  We're looking for algo trading systems developers to work as part of small team of electronic trading professionals including quantitative researchers, traders and operations staff, in order to design, implement and maintain the electronic execution components processing the market signals resulting from the AHL algorithms.  This includes execution strategy design, high frequency signal generation to advise the strategies, and connectivity to liquidity sources.
 

Requirements:
Technology and Business Skills

  • Exceptional technology skills; recognised by your peers as an expert in your domain
  • Extensive Java experience, OO design and patterns - C++ and relational database knowledge an advantage
  • Experience in trading and exposure to capital markets
  • A proponent of agile development methods; continuous integration, unit testing, refactoring and related approaches
  • Experience of distributed, concurrent processing server-side development
  • Proficient working on all major platforms - Linux, Windows and UNIX; working knowledge of various scripting languages
  • Experience of a range of open source frameworks: Spring (or other DI), log4j, junit, eclipse, maven
  • Experience of event driven, asynchronous architectures and messaging/market data processing
  • Knowledge of statistical methods and probability and their application to trading systems an advantage
  • Experience in the front office technology group of a trading organisation (hedge fund, investment bank) is an advantage

Personal Attributes and Management Skills

  • Significant post graduate experience in software development, preferably in finance
  • Strong academic record and a degree in a subject with good mathematical content and computing exposure or Computer Science, Maths, Engineering or Physics from a leading university
  • Intellectually robust with a keenly analytic approach
  • Able to establish and maintain a close working relationship with research academics, traders and senior business people alike
  • Confident communicator; able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views
  • Focused on delivering value to the business; relentless efforts to improve how that is done




                                                                                                                                        

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