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Job: Financial Developer
Financial Developer
Job #: 6176-DGS
Job Title: Financial Developer
Location: Natick MA
% Travel: None to Minimal
Area: Financial Developer
Job Summary
The Financial Products Software developer will design and develop tools for financial modeling and analysis, exploration and visualization. Specific tasks include developing graphical user interfaces, object oriented design of supporting classes, researching and implementing data analysis algorithms, defining needs through customer interaction and research, and interacting with domain experts.
Responsibilities
The Financial Products Software developer will contribute to design, specification, development, and testing of financial modeling and analysis tools. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team of programmers, scientists, engineers and marketing professionals to understand customer needs, and then translate those needs into effective product designs.
A suitable candidate will combine strong programming skills with a sound understanding of the mathematical and statistical foundations of financial modeling and analysis.
An ideal candidate will have honed these skills as a user or developer for one of the disciplines likely to form the main customer base for FMA products (portfolio optimization, fixed-income, econometrics and time series analysis, derivatives, etc.).
Specialist knowledge of data analysis techniques as they are applied in one of these domains would further enable the candidate to lead the development of downstream products customized for specialist use within that discipline.
Qualifications
Advanced degree in Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or Financial Modeling with an emphasis on the application of data analysis methods, quantitative/mathematical finance or econometrics.
Solid knowledge of, and track record in, programming for data analysis applications using MATLAB, Java, C++, and/or VB.
Industrial or research experience in one or more of the disciplines that make extensive use of financial modeling and analysis, for example fixed-income and derivatives pricing, interesting rate analysis, econometrics, portfolio optimization, etc.
Programming experience in MATLAB preferred.
3 or more years programming and product release experience.
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