Your environment
You will be part of the IT- Client & Trading Technology Team Team in Asia which is composed of around 60 people dedicated to the Equity and Equity derivatives business in the Asia Pacific region. The team is mainly based in Hong Kong.
Your role
You will be part of the Market Access Development team, in charge of developing and maintaining a wide range of in-house electronic trading solutions, spanning from order management and market data systems, to operational risk management tools.

At the crossroad between Front, Middle and Back Office on one hand, Financial Exchanges and third party providers on the other hand, market access systems aim at providing a fast and reliable interface between our core business lines trading applications and various electronic exchanges. In order to face with the high volumes and the very low latency required by real time automated trading, systems are in permanent evolution, implementing state of the art technologies and algorithms, and subject to a continuous monitoring.

Software Developer role:
• Study the impact in our trading systems when other entities (exchange , broker, etc) change their systems and/or interfaces with us
• Study new business/IT requests, gather user requirements and write specifications
• Design and implement the required modification (in due time in case of hard deadlines)
• Deliver quality software by passing the validation tests
• Monitor our production systems from time to time to anticipate any potential issues
• Be proactive by proposing enhancements from which the business/IT can benefit (performance or functional improvement)
• Handle level 3 support
• Coach junior staff

Project Manager role: (small projects ~ 50 to 100 man days)
• Accountable to deliver projects according to quality, time and budget criteria
• In charge of the communication towards management, business and within the IT team
• In charge of the Planning & Coordination (Software Development Life Cycle)
• Participates and follows-up all development phases
1. specification to gather user requirements, with the help of business analyst(s)
2. design, with the help of architect(s)
3. development phase, with the help of the development team
4. test phase, with the help of the QA team
5. installation/deployment phase, with the help of the support team

Your profile
• University graduate in Computer Science or related discipline
• 3 to 5 years of Developer / Analyst Programmer experience preferably in Investment Banks
• Strong knowledge on Order Management System
• Strong knowledge in C++ and OOD (Object Oriented Design), Unix shell scripting
• Good knowledge of Equity or Equity Derivatives business
• Project management experience is an advantage
• Good command of both written and spoken English
• Good communication skills and ability to work independently
• Technical Environment: Unix Solaris, Linus, Windows 2000/XP

Your careers path
You will build up recognized expertise and skills which will enable you to progress within Société Générale Group.