Lead, Proximity Development (Commodities & Markets IT)

Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment bank in London seeks a Team Lead for the DevProx team. This role involves managing day-to-day operations, ensuring project deliveries, and developing tailored software applications for the Commodities Market. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in IT systems development, a strong understanding of commodities trading, and proficiency in .NET technologies. This position emphasizes both leadership and collaboration with various stakeholders across the organization.

Qualifications

• Business experience in development and maintenance of IT systems.
• Experience in commodities trading is highly desirable.
• Strong experience with .NET technologies.

Responsibilities

• Provide direction to team and manage project deliveries.
• Develop pricing tools and market data applications for trading.
• Ensure support and maintenance following agile methodologies.

Skills

Development & maintenance of IT systems

Understanding of derivatives

Exposure to front-office

Commodities trading business knowledge

Experience in people management

.net C#

.Net Core

Entity Framework

WPF

Microservices

ANGULAR / ANGULAR JS

Databases SQL Server

Databases Oracle

Databases MongoDB

JetBrain Rider

Good communication skills

Strong experience with Agile methodologies

Ability to work with teams globally

Experience in liaising with Senior Management

Ability to work in a demanding environment

Job description

Overview

As a Team Lead, manage the DevProx team on a day to day basis and serve as first point of contact between Dev Prox and the business and other IT teams. Provide direction and manage key deliveries as per business requirements. Additionally be responsible for organizing and managing business prioritization of deliveries, ability to communicate at different levels of management.

Working on projects for CM IT DevProx team (PROximity DEVelopment), responsible for providing the business (Commodities Market) with flexible, scalable and tailored user software applications where proximity developments and resources are necessary.

Responsibilities

• Main stakeholders will include, but not be limited to Front Office (trading, sales and structuring); the team also provides control and support teams where necessary (Middle office, Risk). The role is hands on and will develop and manage some of the projects from initiation to delivery. Main development is around pricing tools, market data internal contribution, risk management tools, reporting tools.
• Main Developments:
• Pricing tools for all commodity assets (energy, metals, carbon emission, indexes, gas)
• Market data (real time contribution, end of day,) for the same assets
• Reporting for support function (deal valuation, market data)
• The team will also ensure support and maintenance of all its development and work within an agile framework.
• Provide the business with software applications:
• Following in house proximity development lifecycle comprising the following step:
• User needs collection and anticipation.
• Analysis of these needs and definition of the required specifications.
• Multiple solutions proposal: where applicable, provide the sponsors with studies comparing the different options and solutions to facilitate strategic decision making.
• Implementation and delivery of retained solutions.
• Support and documentation.
• Bug tracking, continuous software evolution.
• Make recommendations regarding architecture, technologies and IT solutions
• Analysis, problem solving and escalation
• As part of the global proximity development team, transpose and follow its software development standard, methodologies and procedures
• Cooperate with CM IT Quants, MOA, MOE and other relevant teams
• Carry out training and skills assessments at regular intervals
• Ensure proper support during trading hours and manage on call support for the desk in US
• Manage the team roster to ensure there is ample support available on site in London during business hours
• Ensure system stability and work towards mitigating operational risk and production outages.

Key Skills

• Business experience — required:
• Development & maintenance of IT systems
• Understanding of derivatives
• Exposure to front-office
• Commodities trading business knowledge is highly desirable
• Experience in people management
• .net C#, .Net Core, Entity Framework, WPF
• Microservices
• ANGULAR / ANGULAR JS
• Databases SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB
• JetBrain Rider
• Good communication skills (business-oriented and technical-oriented)
• Strong experience with Agile methodologies, Sprints, Kanban Board, Sprints review, Dev Ops solution
• Ability to work with teams and stakeholders globally
• Experience in liaising with Senior Management – Head of Desks, Business Managers, Senior Front Office users
• Previous experience in working with Banks and FI’s.
• Ability to work in a demanding environment with strong business exposure

At Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB), we are dedicated to fostering a workplace that values diversity and inclusion in every form, encompassing gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, and background. We believe that an inclusive environment not only provides equal opportunities for our employees but also enhances our ability to deliver exceptional outcomes for our clients and the communities we serve. We are committed to accommodating individual needs and making reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to ensure all candidates can fully participate.