| Company Overview |
Markit is a leading, global financial information services company with over 1,900 employees. The company provides independent data, valuations and trade processing across all asset classes in order to enhance transparency, reduce risk and improve operational efficiency. Its client base includes the most significant institutional participants in the financial marketplace.
With over 1,500 institutions using our independent services as clients - including investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, central banks, regulators, rating agencies and insurance companies - we provide round-the-clock support from our offices in London, New York, Dallas, Toronto, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Henley on Thames, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney.
Markit is an entrepreneurial company and a fast-growing business. We continue to expand our presence around the world and offer exciting career opportunities across sales, customer support, product management, information technology and professional services. |
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| Department Overview |
| The TOTEM service, founded in 1997, provides the major market makers in OTC derivatives with definitive consensus market prices. More than 50 of the leading banks, trading houses and other investment professionals use the TOTEM service as the key independent check of their trading book valuations. The service encompasses the equity, interest rate, currency, commodity, credit and bond markets, providing comprehensive matrices of vanilla prices and a wide selection of exotic products. Markit TOTEM recently launched a daily service for Equities, FX and Commodity derivatives which requires additional operational support both in London and in Sydney. |
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| Role Summary |
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• Strong java developer with good commercial experience; development on Windows environment
• Experience with Spring / Hibernate
• Familiar with version control system, preferably subversion
• Database development skills, preferably Oracle
Desirable
• Some knowledge of OTC derivatives
• Familiar with best-practise unit and integration testing techniques
• Familiar with use of Maven on software projects
• Understanding of GUI development and multi-threaded nature of Swing
• Employ and possibly contribute to core internal framework and libraries |
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| Duties and Responsibilities |
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| Gather, analyse and refine business user requirements and rapidly develop front-end applications |
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| See projects through the entire development lifecycle and provide support in production |
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| Liaise with analysts, other developers, testing team and possibly clients |
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| Work well within a team; participate in and encourage a culture of sharing useful knowledge |
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| Business Competences |
| Educational Experience |
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| 2:1 or above degree in Computer Science or related field |
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| Strong, proven development experience, preferably in a financial environment. |
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| Commercial Awareness |
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| Understanding of basic derivatives terminology is desirable, but not essential. |
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Personal Competences |
| Personal Impact |
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| Strong analytical and mathematical skills |
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| Displays a positive, can-do attitude |
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| Proactive and able to work independently with minimal supervision |
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| Focused on delivery |
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| Open minded, flexible and willing to adapt to changing business requirements |
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| General interest in technology and it’s relevance to ones own work |
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| Communication |
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| Must be an excellent communicator both written and verbally. |
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| Teamwork |
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| Must be able to work in a team environment. |
Contact Details |
| Interested applicants should send their CV and a covering letter to careers.europe@markit.com citing “Senior Java Developer - Totem” in the subject line. |
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Due to the high volume of applications we receive for each of our roles we are unable to respond on an individual basis. If you have not received a response within 2 weeks of having submitted your details, it is likely that your application has not been successful on this occasion.
Please state in your covering letter that you are eligible to work in the location that we are seeking to make this appointment. We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer.
We kindly and respectfully request agencies not to submit applications.
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