Front Office Developer Cover Letter

I would like to submit my application for the front office developer opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In my previous role, I was responsible for day-to-day voice operation support and central monitoring of all IVRs, application servers and speech servers.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Good understanding of the Fixed Income domain
• Experience developing multithreaded desktop applications in C#/WPF
• Experience developing scalable Data Visualization solutions
• Performance Tuning and Memory Profiling
• Strong business knowledge in some or all of the following asset classes (Listed Equity and Options, Equity Derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives, Credit Derivatives, FX)
• Compliance reporting experience preferred
• Experience with reporting and BI tools
• C#, WCF, WinForms, WPF, Asp.NET MVC

I am excited to be applying for the position of front office developer. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

Previously, I was responsible for 24/7 operational support for Informatica servers (Power Center and Powerexchange) and recover servers in case of system failures;.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Good knowledge of design patterns and best practices
• Experience in designing and building web services
• Experience in developing in Java to be able to support some java based applications
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to work with business, and also with core platform team in Paris
• Deep experience in C# using .net framework and object-orientated software design and programming
• Communicating with strategists and other stakeholders.*LI-AW1
• Experience of sell-side Equities, Cash or Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) trading (beneficial)
• Excellent Unix and scripting

Please consider me for the front office developer opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

Previously, I was responsible for maintenance, support and enhancements to TM1 Web and Application servers.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• OMS & Portfolio Management system experience preferred
• Experience working with financial services messaging protocols is highly desirable FIX, Swift
• Experience with Straight-through processing (STP) requirements and technology
• To work closely with the project manager / business analyst and other team members to create and maintain new and existing Client Facing applications
• As an application developer, work through the backlog of stories and technical tasks within agile development sprints
• Work on the end-to-end solution, both GUI and server side development
• Provide 3rd line support, working with either the support team or with the business directly
• Be involved in release management tasks, working in collaboration with the application support team

I would like to submit my application for the front office developer opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In my previous role, I was responsible for holiday / sickness coverage for other MO functions - across the FI cash (public assets) and derivatives and Transformation team.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Contribute to technical improvements, especially code re-factoring and enhancing unit test coverage
• Work with teams based both in London and Mumbai
• Strong knowledge of structured products and FO business processes
• Agile / TDD
• Be a key contributor in the application development team
• Coach junior developers
• Provide training and support to end users, to a range of dependent teams, including testing team and production support team in other regions
• Ensure timely, effective, and quality delivery of software into production, both at an individual and team level

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the front office developer position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for hands-on administration and technical support for Windows / Linux servers and provide technical troubleshooting support on the applications/servers hosted on the environment.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• KDB/Q (beneficial)
• C# & WFP (beneficial)
• LMB/UMDS (beneficial)
• Respectful, intellectually curious
• Takes ownership of work, cares about our success
• Experienced .NET developer (or senior Java developer motivated to gain an in-depth .NET knowledge)
• Very good in C# and .NET Framework 3.5 or newer
• Very good in object oriented design and knowledge of design patterns