Solution Architecture Lead at BT
London, United Kingdom
Associate @ Working with the front office Fundamental Equities team within Goldman Sachs Asset Management to develop and support mission-critical trading applications. Direct and frequent collaboration with front office personnel, external vendors and service providers, and members of other technical teams, is of key importance in this role. Recent development projects have included: * Porting proprietary Order...
Associate @ Working with the front office Fundamental Equities team within Goldman Sachs Asset Management to develop and support mission-critical trading applications. Direct and frequent collaboration with front office personnel, external vendors and service providers, and members of other technical teams, is of key importance in this role. Recent development projects have included: * Porting proprietary Order Management System back-end services from a legacy Solaris platform to a new Linux-based cloud infrastructure, and transitioning multiple region-specific Order Management Systems to a unified global system. * Designing and developing a greenfield research support system to enable cross-team collaboration on research provider assessment and allocation of commissions. * Transitioning user authentication and authorisation mechanisms for a critical trading application to a role-based approach, transferring privilege management overhead from the application team to a support team. Other duties include initiatives to improve developer skills and to promote adoption of modern development and testing practices. From January 2013 to Present (2 years 11 months) London, United KingdomSenior Developer @ Working with investment bank clients including Morgan Stanley and Nomura on long-term software development projects. Agile test-driven development processes with short release cycles ensured timely delivery in response to rapidly changing requirements of internal and external users. Client projects were developed in globally distributed teams, using a wide variety of technologies but always placing a high priority on robust design and meeting the client's needs. Development projects included: * An integrated research, analytics, and trading application for equities and fixed income business, used by thousands of internal users and tens of thousands of external users. * An equities research application used by front office trading personnel to manage portfolios and measure performance, and to publish trade ideas to external clients. * A fixed income investment web portal to provide analytics and research content to internal users and external clients. Non-client duties included managing and implementing the security review process for internal software projects, improving the technical recruitment process, and developing internal corporate administration applications. From 2010 to 2013 (3 years) Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomSoftware Developer @ Software developer working on mission-critical projects for large-scale collection and analysis of network information. These projects involved highly specialised information and technologies, and were generally tackling specialised problems not addressed elsewhere in the technology sector. Contributed throughout the development lifecycle from inception to deployment, in a highly security conscious environment. Led the development of subsystems of projects for large-scale data analysis, and research tools, using a range of proprietary and open source technologies. Responsible for direct collaboration with end-user clients across divisions and partner organisations, developing software to address their specific requirements, and managing highly sensitive information. Additional duties included process improvement initiatives, and chairing risk analysis sessions. From 2003 to 2006 (3 years) PhD, Computer Science @ University of York From 2006 to 2010 MSc (research), Computer Science @ University of Durham From 2002 to 2003 BSc (Hons), Computer Science, 1st class @ University of Durham From 1999 to 2002 University of Oxford Jonathan Tate is skilled in: Java, Software Engineering, Test Driven Development, Object Oriented Design, SQL, XML, .NET, Multithreading, C#, Subversion, Agile Methodologies, Eclipse, UML, Git, Objective-C
Working with the front office Fundamental Equities team within Goldman Sachs Asset Management to develop and support mission-critical trading applications. Direct and frequent collaboration with front office personnel, external vendors and service providers, and members of other technical teams, is of key importance in this role. Recent development projects have included: * Porting proprietary Order Management System... Working with the front office Fundamental Equities team within Goldman Sachs Asset Management to develop and support mission-critical trading applications. Direct and frequent collaboration with front office personnel, external vendors and service providers, and members of other technical teams, is of key importance in this role. Recent development projects have included: * Porting proprietary Order Management System back-end services from a legacy Solaris platform to a new Linux-based cloud infrastructure, and transitioning multiple region-specific Order Management Systems to a unified global system. * Designing and developing a greenfield research support system to enable cross-team collaboration on research provider assessment and allocation of commissions. * Transitioning user authentication and authorisation mechanisms for a critical trading application to a role-based approach, transferring privilege management overhead from the application team to a support team. Other duties include initiatives to improve developer skills and to promote adoption of modern development and testing practices.
What company does Jonathan Tate work for?
Jonathan Tate works for Goldman Sachs
What is Jonathan Tate's role at Goldman Sachs?
Jonathan Tate is Associate
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Jonathan Tate works in the Computer Software industry.
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