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Graduate Opportunities 2011-12 Phil Beevers Chief Architect John Wybrow Recruitment Manager 11 th October 2011. Agenda. Introduction to Fidessa Our Challenge Our Opportunities Our People Questions. Introduction to Fidessa. Fidessa... Is a significant UK-based software success story
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Graduate Opportunities 2011-12 Phil Beevers Chief ArchitectJohn Wybrow Recruitment Manager 11th October 2011
Graduate Opportunities 2011-12 Agenda • Introduction to Fidessa • Our Challenge • Our Opportunities • Our People • Questions
Graduate Opportunities 2011-12 Introduction to Fidessa • Fidessa... • Is a significant UK-based software success story • Provides trading systems to >950 firms around the world • Has 14 offices in 10 countries • Makes money and is growing • Has great technology and an appetite for high-quality people • Is making it easier to buy, sell and own financial assets of all types on a global basis
Investors Buy-side Firms Asset Classes Sell-side Firms Venues/Issuers Regulated Funds Retail Managers Shares Private Investors Exchanges Bonds Institutional Managers Brokers Commodities Governments Corporations Wealth Manager / Private Banks Real Estate High Net Worth Unregulated Corporations Currencies Hedge Funds
Graduate Opportunities 2011-12 Core Development Fidessa Trader Workbench Fidessa Server Resilience and Failover User desktop layout Scripting Monitoring Custom OCXs Custom .NET controls Java libs and applications C++ libs and applications Real-Time Grids Browser Controls XML Dialogs Generic server components Themes OpenAccess LLB SPatch Diagnostics User Prefs Real-time event notification OpenAccess 64-bit, in-memory database
Graduate Opportunities 2011-12 Core Development Talk is cheap.Show me the code. - Linus Torvalds
Graduate Opportunities 2011-12 Core Development void CUtl_RingBufServer::UnLockInternal(BOOLEAN wakeClients) { if (basePtr && wakeClients) { // Always broadcast; this is a no-op if no waiters fidos_atomic_add_64(&((TUtl_RingBufHeader*)basePtr)->wakeCount, 1); pthread_cond_broadcast(&((TUtl_RingBufHeader*)basePtr)->condVar); } mutexGroup->UnLockMutex(mutexNo); locked = FALSE; }
Graduate Opportunities 2011-12 Hosted Services • ASP, SaaS, Cloud… • Hosting, running and operating all that great software • A problem of scale • A requirement for agility
Fidessa Current & Proposed Data Centres Stockholm Toronto 1&2 London 1&2 Seoul Proposed 2012 New York 1&2 Tokyo 1&2 Chicago 1&2 Planned Q1 2012 Hong Kong 1&2 Mumbai Proposed 2012 LO1 – Woking, Surrey LO2 – London, E14 (closest to LSE) NY1 – Somerset, New Jersey (closest to NYSE, NASDAQ) NY2 – Trumbull, Connecticut TO1 – Markham, Ontario TO2 – Toronto, Ontario (closest to TMX) ST1 – Kista, Sweden (closest to NASDAQ OMX) HK1 – Cyberport Road, Hong Kong (closest to HKSE) HK2 – Quarry Bay, Hong Kong TK1 – Koto-ku, Tokyo TK2 – Higashi Ikebukuro, Tokyo (closest to TSE) CH1 – Downtown Chicago, IL (closest to CME for 2011) CH2 – Aurora, IL (co-lo with CME 2012) SY1 – co-lo with ASX primary SY2 – co-lo with ASX standby 6000 systems 500 firms 150 markets >$850 billion worth of transactions monthly Sydney (est go-live Q4 2011)
Graduate Opportunities 2011-12 Enterprise Services • Small number of large customers – 85% of tier one firms • Multi-million dollar, multi-year relationships • Big fish, little fish • Integration, customisation, flexibility • Cutting edge of business and technology
Graduate Opportunities 2011-12 Breaking News… 11th October 2011 – Citi has selected Fidessa to provide it with a class-leading workflow and trading platform for the bank's global listed derivatives business.
Graduate Opportunities 2011-12 Our Opportunity • We’re looking for: • Software Developers • Consultants • Support Analysts • We can offer: • Quality Training • Career Progression • Travel Options • Strong, friendly culture
Graduate Opportunities 2011-12 Our People