eFinancialCareers

• Company

  Markit

• Location

  UK-London

• Compensation

  Competitive

• Position Type

  Employee

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  18 Nov 2008

• eFC Ref no

  460544

The successful candidate will work with the Markit MSA development team to further enhance and scale the platform and participate in any future green field initiatives. Markit MSA provides a comprehensive, transparent and validated market share service for European equity markets.

Company Overview

Markit was founded in 2001 as the first independent source of credit derivative pricing and has recently been announced as the fastest growing private company in the UK. Today, our data, valuations and trade processing services are regarded as the market standard in the global financial markets, helping our clients to reduce risk, improve operational efficiency, and meet regulatory requirements.

As a private company with privileged relationships with 16 shareholder banks, Markit has unparalleled access to a valuable dataset spanning credit, equities and the broader OTC derivative universe. Our unique relationships with the bank shareholders give us the opportunity to work closely with these leading market makers to develop innovative solutions for the marketplace.

With over 1,300 institutions using our independent services as clients - including investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, central banks, regulators, rating agencies and insurance companies - we provide round-the-clock support from our offices in London, New York, Chicago, Toronto, Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Tokyo, Singapore and Sydney.

Technical Skills

Required:

• Advanced database skills (data modeling, normalization, performance tuning for batch-based or real-time databases and similar).
• Advanced SQL programming (Sybase or other major RDBMS) including stored procedures, optimization, transaction processing, monitoring and error handling. 
• Understanding the issues facing systems that load large volumes of data at high speed both from writing and reporting and perspective.
• Web applications development experience (Java Servlets, JSP)
• General Java skills (J2SE 5.0)
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX

Highly Desirable:

• JDBC / XML
• Experience in Sybase IQ or any column based database architecture
• Experience of working in the Financial Industry

Roles and Responsibilities

• Responsible for the development of a scalable time series database to handle multiple queries real-time
• Ability to work closely with the business to provide a product tailored to our business partners requirements
• Second-line application support of the production MSA system
• Active participation in releasing of the new code – sometimes out of business hours

Business Competencies

• Strong academics preferred, ideally a good honours degree or equivalent
• Consistent track record of delivery to excellent standards
• Able to work within a team environment with minimal supervision
• Ability to take a project through its entire life cycle
• Commercial awareness: the candidate should be comfortable dealing with senior individuals with strong client and service orientation

Personal Competencies

• Strong problem solving skills
• A delivery focused attitude to be able to meet demanding deadlines
• Must be self-starting, driven, assertive and positive
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to manage stakeholder relationships
• Strong team player who is comfortable working at all levels of the business and external stakeholders as required

Due to the high volume of applications we receive for each of our roles we are unable to respond on an individual basis.  If you have not received a response within 2 weeks of having submitted your details, it is likely that your application has been unsuccessful.