About mthree
Since 2010, mthree has been helping clients solve their business and technological challenges. We are a technology and business consultancy with a global workforce delivering significant business and IT projects in some of the largest financial services organisations worldwide.
Core Services
• Consulting and Advisory
• Managed Services
• Alumni Graduate Programme
• Alumni Pro Programme
We have a global presence and are experts in delivering exceptional quality to our client base, providing consulting services across Risk, Regulation & Compliance; Vendor Products; Application Support; Application Development; Cyber & Information Security; Data Science and DevOps areas.
Our Alumni Graduate programme is an internationally recognised 2 year non-rotational pathway that has successfully shaped the careers of hundreds of Graduates worldwide. Our Alumni Pro programme is designed for Consultants who have either typically completed the Alumni scheme and don’t convert to our clients, or outside industry professionals who want to move sector or role.
Diversity and Inclusion
Through our diversity initiatives, we create a more representative workforce and enable our clients to achieve their own diversity goals. Our view is that diverse teams realise greater levels of success by creating a culture of inclusion, sparking a variety of viewpoints and offering career progression to a more diverse group of people. To support this statement, we are encouraging underrepresented groups to choose careers in Technology through Summer Internships and open events as part of our Diversity Network.
JOB SPECIFICATION:
Job Title: Java Developer
Client: Morgan Stanley
Area: Equity Sales and Trading
The Client:
Morgan Stanley 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. Morgan Stanley 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. Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.
The Department:
Morgan Stanley’s market leading institutional equity derivatives business is powered by a world class technology platform from front to back. Our platform manages the processing of Structured Products and OTC’s for the exotic derivatives business. This is a complex business area requiring smart, innovative, and self-sufficient developers to work closely with sales, trading and quants. As the business continues to grow, we are undertaking a programme of change to increase our external connectivity via REST and FIX; as well as a strong focus on improving our pricing tools. We are looking to build out a cloud ready,
horizontally scalable pricing system with zero downtime and single click deployment capability. This is an opportunity to get involved in shaping the pricing and workflow strategy and tooling. Reflecting the global nature of our business and systems, the team is distributed between London, New York, Montreal, Hong Kong and Mumbai. Our strongest location in terms of numbers is London, the ideal time zone for running a global team and where many of our business sponsors are also located. We are active in many out of work activities both socially and volunteering our time through various firm sponsored initiatives.
What you can expect:
• You will be a technically proficient and enthusiastic developer, with a desire to work on back- end application development.
• You will support and lead different phases of the product lifecycle including analysis, development and testing.
• You will develop new and existing components in Java. Previous commercially proven experience is required, with a strong desire to develop your skills more widely.
• Additionally, there is an opportunity to work with front end application development in HTML
5, Angular.
• You will be a proactive member of an agile development team, focusing on efficient application
delivery to meet business KPI’s.
• You will be expected to promote best practices in terms of TDD, development tools and
technologies.
• You will be a proactive member of an agile team, taking part in ceremonies and interact with
business owners and stakeholders as well as other agile teams across the fleet.
• The role will involve constant interaction with front office business users, analysing and gathering requirements.
• The role requires good collaboration with members from the wider global team, as well as neighbouring teams and systems such as pricing and trade capture.
• Equity derivatives product knowledge is not a pre-requisite but it is advantageous
Required Skills
• Practical Experience building Java Applications.
• Test-Driven Development (TDD) experience.
• Experience of Agile development techniques and a deep understanding of systems engineering, build and release management principles including continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Experience with application integration, software design patterns, frameworks, unit testing, automated testing, performance / memory analysis, and n-tier service-oriented architecture.
• Experience in sales and trading platforms or middle office trade processing systems in Equities
/ FX / Fixed Income / Derivation domain
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