Role

CMA seeks talented developers looking to gain experience creating high performance software systems for the financial market. The successful candidate will develop domain knowledge of OTC financial markets and gain experience of producing production quality software.

Company Background

Credit Market Analysis Ltd (CMA) is the leading provider of real-time pricing aggregation services and data products for the OTC credit and credit derivatives market. CMA's services enable traders, portfolio and risk managers to improve P&L performance through better, faster trading decisions. CMA has over 120 customers - Investment Banks, Hedge Funds and Asset Managers - worldwide. The company, founded in 2001 by financial market professionals, has offices in London (headquarters) and New York.

CMA Quotevision™ is an advanced real-time, front-office information management service which enables investment professionals to make sense out of the deluge of pricing information they receive from their trading partners via email and messaging systems, enabling rapid decisions for trade execution purposes.

CMA Datavision™ is a high quality, consensus based, end of day price verification data product for Bonds, CDS, Indices and Tranches, used primarily for mark-to-market, flash P&L, research and analytics purposes. It is sourced from the front-office information pools of 30 leading buy-side firms, with a broad geographical distribution among Hedge Funds, Asset Managers and buy-side desks of Investment Banks.

CMA NAVigate™ is a secure, web-based solution for receiving independent OTC valuations and streamlining the management of the mark-to-market process, delivering independent OTC valuations for CDS, interest rate and FX derivatives, immediate plans to build out this asset class.

CMA is a wholly owned subsidiary of CME Group

Key responsibilities will include:

• Engineering and testing software using C# on a Microsoft .NET technology stack 
• Contributing to design and planning meetings
• Reviewing technical documentation for correctness

• Liaising with the infrastructure team to ensure systems are deployed and supported correctly

Key requirements include:

• Currently studying or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence or closely related subject
• Proven programming ability with C# 3.5, Linq and Entity Framework
• Experience engineering unit tests with NUnit and/or VS.Net
• A keen interest in technology and software development
• Excellent problem solving skills and a deep thinking analytical mindset
• Calm under pressure and able to manage projects to deadline with minimum supervision
• Open, positive, fast learner with excellent attention to detail

• Good interpersonal, written and oral communication skill

Technical and other preferred skills:

• Exposure to Microsoft .NET
• Experience with ETL projects
• Knowledge of ASP.Net web applications and ASP.Net MVC 2.0 applications
• Background in finance and an exposure to wealth management software systems 

Placement Period: 4 months

Reporting Line:

Program Manager

Compensation:

Competitive

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