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Hatstand Vacancy







Graduate Trainee - Technical Services HS208

Hatstand (www.hatstand-ltd.com) are looking to recruit IT graduate trainees to join a 2 year scheme for our leading clients (Major European / Global Investment Banks). This is an exciting and challenging opportunity.

The trainee role will involve the following disciplines:

• Formal training on specific internal systems
• Close working relationships with both the business and the technical teams.
• Reviewing and communicating software release changes from the appropriate development teams
• System testing and quality assurance
• Liasing with product providers regarding problem resolution and enhancement/project delivery
• Liasing with the Front Office business and IT groups
• Management of problems, ensuring effective and timely resolution and communication
• Identifying and resolving potential system problems
• Project lead, co-ordinate and implement system releases
• Update relevant applications and system documentation for the various support and technical groups
• Take ownership of client issues and manage them to resolution
• Manage client / vendor expectations
• Effectively communicate issues to Business and IT Managers
• Contribute to communication and cooperation between regional technical teams to facilitate consistently high standards of client services globally
• Work effectively under pressure with strong sensitivity to deadlines
• Support clients by providing technical expertise and knowledge to maintain agreed service levels

Skills/Qualifications:

• Educated to degree level in a technical discipline (minimum 2:1)
• Self evident interest in IT
• Willingness and desire to understand distributed systems (Solaris, Linux server-side, XP/.net client side) any prior experience beneficial
• Database knowledge beneficial: oracle, Sybase desirable
• Some experience of applications development (Java, C++). Perl/other scripting language beneficial
• A solid understanding and a deep desire to learn more about investment banking and financial markets
• Strong communication skills
• Demonstrable technical skills / aptitude / attitude
• Clear sense of ownership and responsibility
• Observant, insightful and eager to contribute
• Motivated, ambitious and enthusiastic
• A willingness to learn new technologies and build a solid understanding of the business context of the applications
• Highly committed and dedicated
• Reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy are essential
• Must be articulate and highly literate in the English language.
• Ability to work in a high pressure environment.

2 year contract
£25,000 - £32,500 depending on experience




Email : recruitment@hatstand-ltd.com
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