Join the TradeHeader team: Consultant
Who are we?
As specialists in the use and customisation of data standards across capital markets and global payments, we enhance and customize your data and validate its quality.
TradeHeader’s offering in the area of financial data standards spans consulting, DevOps, and training. We have extensive expertise in OTC (over-the-counter) derivatives products and in messaging standards such as FpML, CDM, FIX Protocol and ISO 20022. We don’t just know these standards – we are closely involved in their design, their evolution and their stewardship.

What do our consultants do?
Consultants take a functional, technical, and collaborative approaches to solving the firm's core business problems. They don’t just analyze the business and make recommendations – consultants are involved in the design and implementation of the proposed solutions and are also responsible for communicating these decisions effectively and clearly.

What are we looking for?
- Bachelor’s degree in Physics, Math, Economics (with a quantitative focus), Engineering, or equivalent
- Master’s degree in Finance is a plus
- High attention to detail
- A high degree of curiosity with the ability to ask thoughtful questions and solve challenging problems
- The capacity to envision a variety of solutions and to clearly articulate them and explain the trade-offs
- The ability to use programming to implement solutions. Consultants don’t have to be software developers, but they should be able to use programming in a pre-established architecture
- A collaborative mindset that enjoys working with others and knowledge sharing to achieve the best results
- An eagerness to give and receive feedback in an open team atmosphere to better the overall result
- Practical experience with a programming language such as Java, XSLT, XQuery, Python, C++ is a plus.

Here are just some of the projects we're working on:
- Financial products data mapping between different systems
- Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR) - defining financial regulations as functional code
- Financial data standards (CDM, FpML, FIX, ISO 20022) parsers, converters, and validators
- Defining internal data models for financial institutions
- Research and design new product lines, including the use of AI in financial applications