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Jefferies 2022 Information Technology Full-Time Analyst / Associate Program - New York and Jersey City

Jefferies Group LLC, the largest independent, global, full-service investment banking firm headquartered in the U.S. focused on serving clients for 60 years, is a leader in providing insight, expertise and execution to investors, companies and governments. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia. Jefferies Group LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE: JEF), a diversified financial services company.

General Summary

Jefferies is actively recruiting qualified Undergraduate and Masters candidates to apply to the Corporate Information Technology Analyst/Associate program.
The individuals chosen for this program will be placed within one of the following Technology Departments at Jefferies: Global Information Security Technology, Cloud Computing Technology, Client Relationship Management and Analytics Technology, Equity Technology, Fixed Income Technology or Operations, Compliance and Corporate Data Technology.
  • Report to a senior developer or program manager
  • Participate in several key projects
  • Work with Leading edge technologies to help drive Innovation & Strategic Change amongst the firm’s businesses
  • Exposure across business aligned and functionally aligned technology areas amongst Jefferies locations
  • Access to senior technology management and cross functional and cross divisional initiatives

Jefferies Information Technology Organization is Leveraging Leading Edge Technologies to help drive Innovation & Strategic Change amongst the firm’s businesses leveraging best-in-class cloud-based technologies to replace legacy on-premises solutions to provide intelligent trend insights, actionable opportunities, decision support, and transparency into all client and business-related activities.

The program is a Five (5) Year commitment with a compensation agreement based upon predetermined annual salary increases and bonuses. Our firm promotes internal mobility across technology departments throughout your career at Jefferies. The placement of program participants within a specific technology department are subject to change based on the firm’s needs.

Technology Roles
  • Equity & Fixed Income Technology: working alongside our development & support of our Equity or Fixed Income Electronic Trading systems for automation with partnership with our cloud, big data, voice and natural language initiatives within the firm.
  • Operations, Compliance, & Corporate Data Technology: working alongside our development & support our Operations, Compliance and Data Strategy systems.
  • Cloud Operations & Engineering: working alongside our engineering, architecture and operations of services for public cloud and private cloud software and infrastructure applications working directly with application managers, Vendor OEM’s, researchers and data scientists to provide cloud services and real time security.
  • Big Data Engineering: working alongside our engineering, architecture and development of an Enterprise Data Lake in AWS. This team is at the forefront of Jefferies’ cloud initiative, leveraging best-in-class cloud-based technologies to replace legacy on-premises solutions to provide intelligent trend insights, actionable opportunities, decision support, and transparency into all client and business-related activities.
  • Graph Engineer: working alongside our graph database application implementations, ontologies, and big data to build and integrate data-driven intelligent solution into our business processes. We are leveraging best-in-class cloud-based technologies to replace legacy on-premises solutions to provide intelligent trend insights, actionable opportunities, decision support, and transparency into all client and business-related activities.
  • Analytics & Data Science: work alongside of our Data Scientists to help solve some of the most challenging NLP and Machine Learning problems to enable the firm to integrate data-driven intelligent solution into our business processes.

What we look for in a candidate
The applying candidate must be a high achiever, self-starter & self-motivated to get things done, an independent as well as team player. A passion and curiosity in cutting-edge technologies with the ability of bringing innovation and “out of the box” thinking to the roles. The candidate must also have good written and communications skills enabling interaction with individuals at all levels of the organization. Any previous experience or interaction working in the financial services industry, trading & risk management, and operations, Cloud and Big Data engineering is a plus. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
  • Design complete systems from inception to completion. Design, develop, test, and implement applications, interfaces, screens, forms, and reports
  • Document relevant work; user and technical documentation
  • Keep up with various advancements in technology
  • Work with users at all levels of the organization to understand and define their needs for applications and provide support for such users
  • Strong communications skills
  • Ability to learn and adapt quickly
  • Good problem-solving skills

Qualification Requirements
  • BS/MS degree, Computer Science, Data Science, Cloud Engineering, Financial Engineering, or Risk Management
  • Graduation date between December 2021 through June 2022
  • Sponsorship for non-US residents may be available
  • Solid knowledge of computer theory, architecture and algorithms
  • Knowledge of ontologies, and knowledge graphs
  • Strong Background in Statistics, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
  • Networking knowledge or experience is a plus
  • Technical Skills
  • Software Development: Python/MATLAB/SQL/C++/Scala/Java - Visual Basic, C# .Net shell scripts, PERL,JSON, Ruby, JavaScript, Angular 7, iQuery, HTML5, CSS3, XML desirable
  • Infrastructure: Networking; Application Security, Web servers, infra automation, data encryption, storage
  • Cloud Orchestration: SDK’s, CloudFormation, Terraform
  • Big Data Engineering: AWS technologies such as Kinesis, Lambda, EC2, Redshift, RDS, Cloud formation, EMR, S3, AWS Analytics, Spark, Databricks, AWS/Azure
  • Data Science: Statistics, Machine Learning & Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Graph Engineering: Ontologies, AllegroGraph Franz, Neo4J, OWL, RDF and SPARQL, GraphQL, Gremlin
  • Trading systems: Bloomberg, ION, Fidessa, Murex - API knowledge

At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences, and supporting a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.
 
Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity workplace. We practice equal opportunity for all, regardless of race, religion, ancestry, color, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, covered veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. In accordance with applicable law, we are dedicated to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs. Please inform your recruiter should you require accommodations throughout your application process.
 
It is Jefferies’ policy that all employees and visitors be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to enter any Jefferies office or participate in any Jefferies or client event in person. Should an offer of employment be made, your acceptance of that offer means that you will comply with this policy.