Developer: Graduate Programme 2025 - PHI Partners

About Phi’s Graduate Programme

Phi’s 2025 graduate programme starts in September. You will join Phi as part of a community of graduates – like-minded, talented young people with whom you will form not just professional but also social bonds that may last a lifetime.

Under our two-year programme, our graduates begin their journey at Phi with four to six weeks of intensive classroom-based training, delivered by our business and technical experts. After the intensive training, you will join your first client-facing team as Junior Consultant, and you will be assigned a Learning Buddy, a senior colleague who will help you navigate these first steps of your career.

Your training doesn’t stop there. You will continue formal training over the two years, and we will make sure time is made available for this. In parallel with the experience that you gain in your client role, we will give you all the support you need to develop the all-round consulting skills necessary for promotion to Consultant at the end of the two-year programme.

At Phi we pride ourselves that all our employees – including the most senior subject matter experts – are friendly and approachable. With a focus on teamwork and knowledge sharing, we value every employee and their ongoing learning and development.

About the role

As one of our delivery consultants, you will be assigned to one of our international project teams, in our delivery centre in Bucharest (Romania).

You will be:

• Working with a variety of different financial institutions across the whole capital markets sector
• Helping our clients run or transform their technology, or shape their technology strategy
• Playing an essential and effective role in both the client team and the wider Phi family: learning from our experts, supporting your colleagues, and constantly striving for excellence.

You may also get the opportunity to travel to different locations across Europe and beyond, if this is something that you would like to do. In the role of a Developer, your primary career focus will be technical in nature working within one of the various clients/assignment types.

Assignments could include:

• Working with bespoke business applications, vendor applications using API, databases, interfaces, integration and middleware platforms, infrastructure and cloud.
• Working closely with senior engineers, quants, and business analysts to understand project requirements.

Other:

• Gaining exposure to capital markets technologies, including trading platforms, risk systems, and market data solutions.
• Although you may have a primary technology as a focus, you can expect to work in multiple technologies in a wide variety of technical and project contexts
• Tasks could include new builds, new features, defect fixing, problem solving, liaising with client/peers to deliver fixes or new solutions
• Understanding the project lifecycle and software delivery best practice
• As well as hands-on software development, you can expect to gain experience in all technical roles across a variety of delivery models – technical analysis, release management, environment management, technical solution design and architecture, DevOps, Continuous Integration and Agile.

With experience you can become an expert in one or more technologies and/or move into a leadership role depending on your own interests

About you

We are looking for talented graduates who have an interest in pursuing a career in capital markets technology, in a consulting context – where each client is different, and each engagement provides a new challenge and a new opportunity for learning.

Education

• Minimum Bachelor of Science, Engineering or Computer Science
• Other degree subjects may be considered, with a minimum of six months of IT related practice in school or other external projects

Other skills and capabilities

• Object oriented programming at an education Graduates level or from personal projects Knowledge of basic algorithms
• Familiarity with Design Patterns
• Good scripting knowledge e.g. Bash, Shell, C-Shell, Korn-Shell, Perl, Python
• Additional skills in C#, Java, SQL, Shell Scripts, Perl or Python, XML/XSLTs would be a plus Generic SQL and some administrative knowledge about DBMS
• Debugging on Windows and Linux systems
• Good operating system knowledge on Windows and Linux

What we expect from our junior consultants

Quality & timeliness of delivery

• is highly self-motivated with a strong will to deliver outstanding work results on time
• respects and adheres to own and team schedules; complies to working hours, meetings and agreed delivery dates

Teamwork

• is a team player that works well with other people
• is able to transform constructive feedback into learning progress instead of conflicts
• is reliable & responsible
• is engaged and actively supports achieving team’s goals

Problem solving

• has strong analytical skills
• can identify most occurring problems uses creativity to find innovative solutions.
• can filter complex information into simple terms
• provides input in evaluating options using best judgement
• helps implement solution

Flexible thinking

• is naturally curious and understands the importance of continuous innovation and creativity as these skills are key for a successful career at Phi
• is resilient and learn how to tackle challenges whilst having a positive attitude in overcoming obstacles
• constantly learns and develops, can grasp new ideas and concepts quickly and applies this learning to ensure the best possible outcomes for our clients

Communication & relationship building 

• is a friendly and sociable colleague, keen to help people, with a strong service orientation
• is a strong communicator with the ability to summarise complex topics in simple terms
• inspires confidence and build trust in others
• is solution oriented in a no-blame culture, expressing ideas assertively

About our offer

• Competitive package in an international IT consultancy
• Accelerated career progression with 2-years training and development plan
• Working with market leaders and best people from the industry
• Work on client sites all over Europe or locally from Bucharest
• Gym-membership
• Health insurance
• Mobile phone

Next steps

If you think you have what it takes to become one of our expert consultants and to collaborate with some of the most talented people in their fields, contact us at careers@phipartners.com.

We receive a high volume of applications, and while we carefully review each one, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us within two weeks, unfortunately, your application has not progressed to the next stage.