Macquarie Securities Group (MSG) encompasses Macquarie's institutional and corporate stockbroking, equity derivatives and equity finance capabilities. It utilises its skills in research and risk management to originate equity-based financial solutions and products and services for client, globally.  The Equities Research Division within MSG is a market leader in the provision of research and investment advisory services. Due to growth, we have opportunities for experienced software engineers at varying levels within our Quantitative Research team in Sydney. 

In this varied and challenging role, you will provide IT support to the Quantitative Research team, primarily the manipulation of data and development and maintenance of custom analytic tools. You will have the opportunity to apply your technical knowledge to complex finance problems and to develop your finance knowledge.  

Ideally you will have:

• Strong tertiary qualifications in software engineering or equivalent
• A structured and consistent approach to problem solving and application support
• Sound object oriented application development experience (C# or Ruby)
• Good experience with MS Excel and VBA
• You must be a self-starter and be comfortable working autonomously
• The ability and interest to work in a team environment - code is shared
• The ability to work in an ever changing environment
• Flexibility to deal with conflicting / changing priorities and multi-tasking
• For the more senior role strong C# and SQL server experience
• For another role experience in various languages and environments; strong scripting and linux skills will be looked upon favourably but are not necessary