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Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Software Sr. Engineer Specialty for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Staffing clients in New York, NY. Responsibilities :
- Leads, designs, develops, test and implements applications and system components, tools and utilities, models, simulation, and analytics to manage complex business functions using sophisticated technologies.
- Resolves coding, testing and escalated platform issues of a technically challenging nature.
- Responsible for defining opportunities across IT to maximize resource utilization and improve processes while reducing cost.
- Ensures that systems are monitored to increase operational efficiency and managed to mitigate risk.
- Mentors and trains other members of the team. Partners with Management, Dev, QA, production support and platform engineering teams effectively.
- Focuses on building relevant capabilities in the organization to keep pace with demand and best practices in the industry.
- Manages vendor/contractor partnerships to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- Designs, codes, tests, debugs and documents programs using Agile development practices.
- Operates in restricted to niche domains: such as Capital Markets, Quants, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning.
- Leads implementation of complex projects/initiatives on above domain.
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in hands on development experience in distributed environments.
- 7+ years of experience in one or a combination of the following: securities, quantitative trading, artificial intelligence, or machine learning
- Comfortable with dealing with the trading desks and preferably someone who is inspired to work with traders to solve business problems under pressure.
- With expertise in Excel/VBA, C#, SQL, Perl/Python, RDBMS, Real Time messaging, Unix, Linux
- Implementing pricing applications in Excel and various optimization associated with Excel programming, as well as experience working on industrialization of the spreadsheets (i.e. proper deployment of the Excel based apps to multiple traders)
- Domain knowledge of derivatives trading, pricing, and the models employed, in addition to all the soft market data that are needed for computing these models.
- Hands on Experience with Bloomberg API, Reuters API in Excel
- Computer algorithms, design patterns, data structure
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