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Hi Guys,
I am lead to believe that quite a few of you work in IT in financial services, so hoping for some advice.
I am a recent graduate (2:2 in Computer Science from a pretty decent university, shame about the grade) and currently work as an implementation consultant for a small software company in the city, we make execution management systems and integration software.
I have worked on a number of projects involving on-boarding funds to our software, the roll out of compliance software and integrating disparate systems. My only worry is that my company does not seem to be growing or getting any new customers. Obviously I am very keen to stick with them, the issue is they might not be around!
Anybody have any advice on what I should be doing to improve my skill set/employability?
Currently I use SQL Server and Crystal Reports almost daily and would class myself as pretty competent with both. I studied Java at university, but haven't really coded since. Is it worth me sticking with Java (doesn't mix very well with SQL Server) or heading down the C# route...
I am also studying towards an IMC.
Anybody have any advice? Or am I on the right path?
Cheers
I am lead to believe that quite a few of you work in IT in financial services, so hoping for some advice.
I am a recent graduate (2:2 in Computer Science from a pretty decent university, shame about the grade) and currently work as an implementation consultant for a small software company in the city, we make execution management systems and integration software.
I have worked on a number of projects involving on-boarding funds to our software, the roll out of compliance software and integrating disparate systems. My only worry is that my company does not seem to be growing or getting any new customers. Obviously I am very keen to stick with them, the issue is they might not be around!
Anybody have any advice on what I should be doing to improve my skill set/employability?
Currently I use SQL Server and Crystal Reports almost daily and would class myself as pretty competent with both. I studied Java at university, but haven't really coded since. Is it worth me sticking with Java (doesn't mix very well with SQL Server) or heading down the C# route...
I am also studying towards an IMC.
Anybody have any advice? Or am I on the right path?
Cheers
I'm a software architect working in SQL/C# mainly plus other minor technologies in tax & accounting business.
Most of the work seems to be moving towards C# rather than VB & C++, although there are some 'hardcore' c++ jobs still around, especially in the markets I believe.
However, if you're not interested in the breakneck speed of the trading systems, I would personally concentrate on .NET specialising in 'The Cloud' (oh, that's so over-used now!) but basically writing software that runs over the internet, whilst the front-end will be in Silverlight/Flash/HTML5/ASPX etc, the back-end will still probably be in .NET.
Another left-field choice would be to learn Obj-C for iOS, or other technology for smartphones, just because it could make a CV standout in a crowd of desktop developers.
I don't use Java, but you only need to look at a lot of big websites to see they use Java extensively on their platforms.
That said, I would consider myself to be up there in developer standards, especially from a business POV, and I'm team lead & do project management, but the pay is not good outside the key areas along the M4 from London.
Good luck
Most of the work seems to be moving towards C# rather than VB & C++, although there are some 'hardcore' c++ jobs still around, especially in the markets I believe.
However, if you're not interested in the breakneck speed of the trading systems, I would personally concentrate on .NET specialising in 'The Cloud' (oh, that's so over-used now!) but basically writing software that runs over the internet, whilst the front-end will be in Silverlight/Flash/HTML5/ASPX etc, the back-end will still probably be in .NET.
Another left-field choice would be to learn Obj-C for iOS, or other technology for smartphones, just because it could make a CV standout in a crowd of desktop developers.
I don't use Java, but you only need to look at a lot of big websites to see they use Java extensively on their platforms.
That said, I would consider myself to be up there in developer standards, especially from a business POV, and I'm team lead & do project management, but the pay is not good outside the key areas along the M4 from London.
Good luck
I left doing JAVA after 6 years and cross trained onto .Net, everything in Finance seems to be moving to .net and so I would consider closely studying that along with things like Ncache, multi threading (proper multi threading mind) and their ajoining technologies.
I cant comment on WCF and WPF with GUI work as Im never allowed to play with the gui and stay hidden in the depths of the server in the engines and down stream feeds.
As for the DB side Its all of a muchness, I dabble in SQL/Sybase and Oracle, but im not a complete guru in any... I get the job done and the system doesnt take a hit in speed then my job is classed as a success.
Are you going to study finance in depth so that you can work on PnL reports and Margins or was the financal aspect of the quuery just that you work for one?
I cant comment on WCF and WPF with GUI work as Im never allowed to play with the gui and stay hidden in the depths of the server in the engines and down stream feeds.
As for the DB side Its all of a muchness, I dabble in SQL/Sybase and Oracle, but im not a complete guru in any... I get the job done and the system doesnt take a hit in speed then my job is classed as a success.
Are you going to study finance in depth so that you can work on PnL reports and Margins or was the financal aspect of the quuery just that you work for one?
Du1point8 said:
I left doing JAVA after 6 years and cross trained onto .Net, everything in Finance seems to be moving to .net and so I would consider closely studying that along with things like Ncache, multi threading (proper multi threading mind) and their ajoining technologies.
I cant comment on WCF and WPF with GUI work as Im never allowed to play with the gui and stay hidden in the depths of the server in the engines and down stream feeds.
As for the DB side Its all of a muchness, I dabble in SQL/Sybase and Oracle, but im not a complete guru in any... I get the job done and the system doesnt take a hit in speed then my job is classed as a success.
Are you going to study finance in depth so that you can work on PnL reports and Margins or was the financal aspect of the quuery just that you work for one?
I want to study finance in depth, I actually find it all quite interesting. I am fairly comfortable working out simple PnL for equities over a trade/day/week/month/life period. Margins, not 100% but these are related to CFDs? How did you gain this knowledge, hands-on at work, or are there any books you can recommend?I cant comment on WCF and WPF with GUI work as Im never allowed to play with the gui and stay hidden in the depths of the server in the engines and down stream feeds.
As for the DB side Its all of a muchness, I dabble in SQL/Sybase and Oracle, but im not a complete guru in any... I get the job done and the system doesnt take a hit in speed then my job is classed as a success.
Are you going to study finance in depth so that you can work on PnL reports and Margins or was the financal aspect of the quuery just that you work for one?
Lardydah said:
Du1point8 said:
I left doing JAVA after 6 years and cross trained onto .Net, everything in Finance seems to be moving to .net and so I would consider closely studying that along with things like Ncache, multi threading (proper multi threading mind) and their ajoining technologies.
I cant comment on WCF and WPF with GUI work as Im never allowed to play with the gui and stay hidden in the depths of the server in the engines and down stream feeds.
As for the DB side Its all of a muchness, I dabble in SQL/Sybase and Oracle, but im not a complete guru in any... I get the job done and the system doesnt take a hit in speed then my job is classed as a success.
Are you going to study finance in depth so that you can work on PnL reports and Margins or was the financal aspect of the quuery just that you work for one?
I want to study finance in depth, I actually find it all quite interesting. I am fairly comfortable working out simple PnL for equities over a trade/day/week/month/life period. Margins, not 100% but these are related to CFDs? How did you gain this knowledge, hands-on at work, or are there any books you can recommend?I cant comment on WCF and WPF with GUI work as Im never allowed to play with the gui and stay hidden in the depths of the server in the engines and down stream feeds.
As for the DB side Its all of a muchness, I dabble in SQL/Sybase and Oracle, but im not a complete guru in any... I get the job done and the system doesnt take a hit in speed then my job is classed as a success.
Are you going to study finance in depth so that you can work on PnL reports and Margins or was the financal aspect of the quuery just that you work for one?
http://www.bpp.com/courses/examination-courses/cit...
I went for securities and investment, FSA regs and Exchange traded deriv Admin...
There are a few books out there that can help if you dont want the course:
Futures, options and other derivatives by John Hull
Computational Finance using C#
And then the list goes on
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