Job Description

Financial Markets (FM) is the Bank’s gateway to the professional markets around the world. Our primary function is to service the needs of ING’s clients with products, services and guidance. FM aims to be a significant player in our market leader and challenger markets, with an additional presence in all the major international markets and specialist expertise in selected emerging markets and products.

Your role & work environment

The Financial Markets Business Experts team, specialized in Derivative products, covering a wide range of asset classes (Interest Rates, Equities, FX, Commodities, Credit), supports the business in London, Brussels, Amsterdam, Singapore (Asian hub) and New York.

In this context, we are looking for a Financial Markets Quant Integrator to develop and extend the pricing functionalities of our internally developed platform.

Your main responsibilities as a Financial Markets Quant Integrator

Develop

• Integrate the C++ quant computation libraries into an internal Java application supporting pricing and risk functions (Market & Credit Risk)
• Develop real-time pricing functions to support trading desks, including high-frequency pricing
• Implement pricing library functions (database, GUI, web services, …)

Support

• Support market data capture and processing (bootstrapping, historical generation, scenarios, …)
• Provide L3 support to Trading / Sales / Market Risk Management

Innovate

• Keep a proactive eye on new technologies that can bring added value to the business and to the project in general

Who we are looking for

A colleague with a talent for taking it on and making it happen, enthusiasm for helping others to be successful, and a knack for always being a step ahead In other words, you strive to bring fresh ideas to life and embrace challenges in a fast-changing and complex environment. You are a naturally collaborative person who listens and invests in others to achieve common goals. You love to challenge the status quo and are eager to propose creative solutions to problems.

As a Financial Markets Quant Integrator you will also need:

• University degree with strong numerical and programming skills (Maths, Physics, Statistics, IT, Engineering, …)
• Several years of experience in an international framework
• Technical expertise in several of the following domains: multi-threaded core Java development, SQL Server / Oracle, Java Swing / AngularJS, C++, Apache Ignite / GridGain, OpenShift, Kubernetes
• Knowledge of financial products
• Soft skills: fast learner, flexible, team player, stress-resistant

We offer you

A clear purpose, a unique offer and a range of flexible compensation and other benefits:

• Personal growth & challenging work with endless opportunities to realise your ambitions
• An informal, dynamic environment with innovative colleagues supporting your endeavours
• A progressive and agile way of working, where new ideas are valued ahead of convention

Furthermore, within the Financial Markets Business Experts department, you can count on a range of opportunities to invest in your personal and professional growth with:

• Interacting in a mature project involving many individuals (80+ people) across BE/NL/RO
• Working in an Agile Scrum environment and with the ING Way of Working, evolving in the challenging business environment of Financial Markets