Monitors and supports the firm’s technology infrastructure and in addition may act as an on-call support service to the front office users. Both technical and non-technical roles exist within infrastructure and systems engineering. For example, many banks use blade and/or grid computing to automate the trading of securities in e-trading markets such as Eurex and e-CBOT. A competitive speed for executing these transactions is vital and even a few milliseconds slower than the firm’s competitors can result in the company losing trades. Therefore, maintaining and monitoring the performance of the hardware that these systems use is essential.
Programme requirements
- Strong academic performance, on track for at least a 2:1 or higher at university
- Minimum 240 UCAS points (equivalent to CCC at A-level)
- Excellent quantitative and analytical skills are required. Some knowledge of at least one programming language is preferred.
- All participating sponsor firms have a diverse hiring policy so applicants from all disciplines are welcome – arts, humanities, languages as well as more numerically focused subjects such as computer science, economics, engineering and mathematics
- Candidates will need to be able to demonstrate drive, initiative and a genuine interest in the financial markets
- Applicants for the summer internship should either be in the penultimate year of their undergraduate degree or in the final year with plans to complete a one year master’s next year. Applicants for the one year industrial placement should be enrolled in a course which allows for one year’s work experience between the penultimate and final years of study
