Société Générale is one of the largest European financial services groups. Based on a diversified universal banking model, the Group combines financial solidity with a strategy of sustainable growth, and aims to be the reference for relationship banking, recognized on its markets, close to clients, chosen for the quality and commitment of its teams. More than 117,000 employees, based in 60 countries, accompany 25 million clients throughout the world on a daily basis.

We are looking for an Intern for a period of 6 to 9 months, starting January 2025.

Take your chance and join our IT team at our SG Branch in Frankfurt!

Mission:

You will join our Application Trading DevOps team (4 persons in Frankfurt) within a larger group of 30 persons on the applications. The team is responsible for the tooling required by production team supporting one of the most critical applications used by traders in charge of the Market Making of Société Générale Listed Derivatives products. This application is in charge of OTC (Over the Counter) trading, pricing, volatility fitting, risk monitoring, streaming of prices, electronic negotiation in large volumes and high frequency computation & overall data updates.

You will work closely with our Production Support team and our development teams to maintain, develop, improve and decommission tools used by the 2 teams and additionally tools used by our customers, the Trading Floor colleagues in charge of Market Making (Traders and Sales). You will be in charge, together with the DevOps and Production Support teams, of monitoring our productive system and solve or prevent technical issues.

You will be at the heart of an industrial pre-trade information system involving hundreds of servers, processes and applications interacting in real time to allow the business to stream live prices of about 700k financial instruments and to negotiate electronically up to 1 million requests per day.

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Maintain, develop, improve and decommission tools used by teams withing our Market Making application scope
• Maintain well known technologies like ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger and more.
• Evaluate existing tools and formulate improvement proposals
• Investigate Issues raised by Traders through chats, emails, or directly upon request by our production team or on a voluntary base
• Coordinate end-to-end the resolution of an issue, communicate to the management and to the traders about the status and the estimated time of resolution
• Follow-up remediation actions leading to preventing next incidents of the same nature (monitoring enhancements, additional checks, information to users, feature implementations)
• Perform testing of new deliveries in non-productive environments
• Coordinate transversal projects with an impact in our perimeter
• Maintain and develop IT tools that improve the quality and profitability of the trading team
• Automate Front Offices processes
• Improve profitability through data analysis
• Optional: Help on developing Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning and/or Deep Learning)