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Algo Trading Lead Developer - Bonds


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*By balance sheet size - The Banker, Juillet 2025  

Reference

2025-100719  

Update date

22/10/2026

Job description

Business type

Types of Jobs - IT, Digital et Data

Job title

Algo Trading Lead Developer - Bonds

Contract type

Permanent Contract

Management position

Yes

Job summary

Crédit Agricole CIB (CA-CIB) Canada is the home of Crédit Agricole CIB Canada Branch and Crédit Agricole Services & Operations.

 

The Canada Branch has offices in Montreal and Toronto providing financial services to Canadian Financial Institutions, Banks, Pension Funds & SSA and to large Canadian headquartered international corporations.

 

Crédit Agricole Services & Operations is hosting a part of all Crédit Agricole CIB’s support functions, from KYC, Back Offices, Risk, IT, Legal or Finance supporting our growing operations in the Americas and complementing our European and Asian operations platforms in a “follow the sun” approach.

 

When you join CA-CIB Canada, you are joining a certified Great Place to Work employer, and a highly engaged workforce.

 

As the Lead Developer on the Algo Trading project within the Bonds division, you will coordinate and support the work of the Montreal-based team. You will ensure effective coordination with the Paris-based teams.

You will participate in the development and maintenance of trading algorithms and the related ecosystem.

 

YOUR MISSION

You will participate in the development of the algo trading platform for Bonds, Repo, Credit and UST.

You will provide level 3 support on this perimeter.

 

Management

  • You will supervise the team of developers based in Montreal
  • You will participate in the coordination of projects carried out between Paris, London and Montreal

 

Development

  • Produce quality code in compliance with CMI guidelines (CI/CD, code coverage...)
  • Participate actively in code reviews
  • Provide input on technologies used in the algorithmic trading framework
  • Monitor technological developments

 

Be a partner to the business

  • Support the business in implementing new algorithms, gathering information on their needs
  • Ensure that new algorithms fit into the existing architecture, and that they can be supported by the Run teams
  • Report proactively and transparently all development risks and problems encountered, and propose mitigation solutions
  • Work closely with development teams and stakeholders based in France
  • Participate in agile meetings across multiple sites and time zones
  • Contribute to cross-functional technical discussions with global teams (code reviews, architecture alignment, sharing best practices)
  • Ensure continuity and traceability of development work carried out in Montreal for the teams in France.

Position location

Geographical area

America, Canada

City

MONTREAL

Candidate criteria

Minimal education level

Bachelor Degree / BSc Degree or equivalent

Academic qualification / Speciality

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Level of minimal experience

11 years and more

Experience

You have 11+ years of experience in the development of real-time market and system applications. Experience with the bonds asset class would be a plus.

Required skills

  • Knowledge of pre-trade and eTrading systems
  • Knowledge of capital markets activities
  • Knowledge of bond products
  • IT knowledge or good IT sensitivity
  • Good relationship building skills
  • Diplomacy
  • Rigor and sense of organization
  • Spirit of analysis and synthesis
  • Verbal and written communication skills in English and French required (You will need to service Anglophone clients and work with Anglophone colleagues)

Technical skills required

  • Real time, low latency, multithreading, scalability, load balancing
  • Technology: Solace bus, ION bus, Java 11, KDB, Unix
  • Tools: IntelliJ
  • DevOp CI/CD: Gitlab CI, Sonar, Checkmarx