| 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 |
| Markit Equities provides a suite of products designed to give immediate access to the data required for equity derivative trading. This encompasses indices, dividends and ETPs delivered in one validated and cross-referenced feed. |
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| Role Summary |
| The candidate will be involved at the forefront of financial product initiatives in areas where Markit Group Ltd is the leader. They will integrate with the Equities programme as a technical team lead and WPF specialist, and oversee the implementation of one or more projects end-to-end. The role will be to head the US technical team of 2 resources (growing) and report to the Head of Technology in UK. The role will encompass being a WPF SME and will span the entire project lifecycle, with a focus on technical excellence from the project inception to its delivery:
- Requirement gathering; - Technical design; - Development; - Component test; and - Technical test. |
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| Duties and Responsibilities |
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| Business requirements: participating in business reqs meetings and defining Markit’s future technical architecture |
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| Technical design: using UML to model the required functionality in its entire depth and ensure industry best practices / design patterns are followed |
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| Development: producing thought leadership in the area of WPF and implementing technical designs. |
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| Component test: using automated framework to lock the code’s stability into a repeatable set of test scenarios. |
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| Technical test: specifying and executing performance, resilience, operability tests. Proposing code changes and enhancements to improve the system in these areas. Pushing our testing to the highest degree of automation. |
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| Business Competences |
| Educational Experience |
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| 5 years of technical experience |
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| Full project lifecycle experience |
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| Experience of UML |
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| Experience of WPF |
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| Experience of RDBMS technologies |
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| Experience of XML |
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| Commercial Awareness |
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| Experience working in the financial sector would be an advantage, in particular knowledge of dividends, indices and equities products, although is not explicitly required to apply for the role. |
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| Management Requirements |
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| Be comfortable dealing with senior individuals with a strong client and service orientation. As a result, any consultancy background or experience would be strongly preferred, although is not explicitly required to apply for the role. |
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Personal Competences |
| Personal Impact |
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| Strong analytical skills |
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| Proactive and able to work independently with minimal supervision |
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| Displays energy drive and stamina |
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| Open minded, flexible and willing to adapt to changing situations |
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| Delivery focused |
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| Communication |
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| Due to the global nature of our business, must be an excellent communicator, in both written and verbal forms. |
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| Teamwork |
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| Absolute team player |
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| Able to establish good relationships with individuals across the globe |
Contact Details |
| Interested applicants should send their CV and a covering letter to careers.europe@markit.com citing “VP, WPF Team Lead” 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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