Technology Programme

Opportunities in London and Switzerland.

The Programme

Our graduate trainee programme offers a unique opportunity to gain an in-depth exposure to the component parts of the Technology Group. The programme comprises of rotations through the key TG departments in London and Switzerland. Rotations will take place in the following areas:

  • Development and Delivery, which comprises multi-disciplined, business aligned, delivery focused development teams. This area gives highly computer-literate individuals the chance to acquire valuable development skills across a wide range of business-critical financial services software, from interactive web services to highly analytical quantitative trading models. As a full member of your particular development team, you can expect to work closely with your business colleagues, and be regarded as someone who can help to deliver real value and benefit.
  • Technology Group Operations creates cohesion and focus in TG by overseeing activities such as the budgeting process, Financial Reporting and Management Information as well as the functions of Information Security and Business Continuity
  • Infrastructure - the spine of the technology group, Infrastructure is comprised of the following multi-disciplined teams: Servicedesk, Desktop Support, WinTel Server Support, Exchange, Unix Administration, Network and Database Administration. Together, these teams provide key hardware maintenance and software support across 13 locations worldwide.

These rotations will expose the successful graduate to elements of Project Management, Business Analysis, Network support and the everyday challenges faced within a commercial Technology department. On completion of the programme the graduate will have gained unique valuable experience in technical and business issues with one of the world's largest hedge fund managers.

On completion, we will work with you to pinpoint the role that best suits your strengths and ambitions.

Your day-to-day experience

From your first day, you will begin to take on responsibility, as a fully operational team-member working on business-critical projects. Whichever team you join, expect ample exposure to various applications, providing you with an excellent platform for your career.

Infrastructure - this is an intense, busy and varied environment offering the opportunity to gain a grounding across all the different teams on a series of live projects. Typically, your hands-on experience could range from problem-solving on complex referrals with the desktop support group, to creating and testing backup databases with the DBA team, to providing a first-line technical support to our development teams through WinTel server support.

Software development - software development is critical to our business performance. The different development teams work closely with the business to understand system requirements and implement solutions, which may include any combination of third party, generic or in-house ingredients. Systems in general are based on C#, C++ or Java platforms. The delivery and development team use a software development methodology known as Agile, which offers the principle advantage of short delivery cycles to achieve greater flexibility and increased interaction between developers and customers.