Overview
Ph.D. Search and Selection are experts at the discreet hiring of investment banking, broking and hedge fund IT staff at VP/Director to Managing Director level. We recruit technical specialists in:
We generally look for front office technical people who have a computer science or engineering degree and a minimum of 3 years commercial experience in trading technology. Our clients pay base salaries between £75k to £200k and for managing directors packages in excess of £500k.
We expect that all our candidates have a stable career track record, have a strong aptitude for the business and have the ability to do technical design as well as implementation.
In this section, you will find the necessary requirements that need to be fulfilled for each respective grade:
Managing Director
You are an technical expert who is currently a global head or sector expert within Equities, Fixed Income, FX, Commodities, Credit Derivatives, Risk or operations.
You will have progressed your career from developer through various stages of team leading to senior management and have 10+ years experience within a major investment bank, market maker, broker, asset manager or hedge fund. In your career to date you will have significant demonstrable achievements in managing large teams and designing trading systems that have added significant demonstrable value to the business in terms of capacity, latency, STP, complexity and globalisation. You will have a track record of managing business stakeholders, budgets and bringing in major programmes on time to budget.
All candidate applications are treated with utmost discretion and we have opportunities in UK, Europe, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and New York.
Please contact: managing.director@phdit.com
SVP/Director/Executive Director
You are an technical expert who is currently running a section within Equities, Fixed Income, FX, Commodities, Credit Derivatives, Risk or operations.
You will have progressed your career from developer through various stages of team leading to senior management and have 7+ years experience within a major investment bank, market maker, broker, asset manager or hedge fund. In your career to date you will have managed teams and designed trading systems that have added significant demonstrable value to the business in terms of capacity, latency, STP, complexity and globalisation. You will still be relatively hands on and have a strong aptitude for the business and enjoy working with traders and risk professionals. You will have a track record of designing and implementing at least 3 major trading systems in your career to date.
All candidate applications are treated with utmost discretion and we have opportunities in UK, Europe, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and New York.
Please contact: svp@phdit.com
VP/Director
You will be a technical expert within Equities, Fixed Income, FX, Commodities, Credit Derivatives, Risk or operations in any of the following categories:
In all cases we look for all developers/team leaders/architects/infrastructure candidates to have expert hands on experience of at least of the following.
Development Skills
Middleware
Databases
Infrastructure
We expect all BA’s and project managers do have a deep understanding of design, architecture and implementation using a combination of all the above technology. We will also expect that candidates have a hybrid skill-set where the can work on the design, implementation and support of the systems they develop.
You will have 4+ years experience within a major investment bank, market maker, broker, asset manager or hedge fund. In your career to date you will have designed trading systems that have added significant demonstrable value to the business in terms of capacity, latency, STP, complexity and globalisation.
All candidate applications are treated with utmost discretion and we have opportunities in UK, Europe, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and New York.
To apply please contact: vp@phdit.com
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