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Department of  Computing

Corporate Partnership Programme (CPP)

Our Corporate Partnership Programme is designed to promote the relationship between the Department of Computing and organisations who wish to recruit our students whilst investing in academic sponsorship. Students register their CVs in a database. Corporate Partners access the database to recruit students for graduate positions, summer internships and industrial placements. Corporate Partners also receive a package of other benefits aimed at raising their profile amongst our students. Companies who are interested in applying for membership should email cpp@doc.ic.ac.uk, or post us a completed application form.

We have launched an Applications of Computing in Industry lecture series. This timetabled series of talks is given by our Corporate Partners and is designed to inform our students about how Computer Science is applied to meet business challenges.

Current Benefactors

ARM

ARM designs the technology that is at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. Combined with comprehensive design services, training, support and maintenance, and the company's broad Partner community, ARM provides a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. Working at ARM is about working with the best people. ARM's people strategy is to provide an engaging environment for ARM employees where they can fully develop our personal and collective potential better than elsewhere.

ARM

Betfair

After launching the world's first successful online betting exchange in June 2000, Betfair has grown into a multi-billion dollar business with an established portfolio of online gaming products. Betfair is a major investor in new technology and employs over 400 engineers to produce one of the fastest and most resilient betting platforms available on the internet.

Betfair

Black Rock

Black Rock, part of Disney Interactive, is one of the industry's premier game studios. We're behind some award-winning games for the Xbox 360 and PS3, from PURE to the multi-million selling ATV Offroad Fury 3 & 4. Our latest project, Split/Second, is due for release next year. So it's a really exciting time to join us. You could be part of a 150-strong studio team, based by the sea in beautiful Brighton. It's a relaxed, friendly and focused environment, where you will enjoy a great work/ life balance, lots of freedom and some superb benefits. We recruit throughout the year for talented intern and graduate engineers with strong C++ skills and a passion for videogames.

Black Rock

Credit Suisse

Credit Suisse provides investment banking, private banking and asset management services to clients across the world. Active in over fifty countries and employing more than 45,000 people, we are one of the world's premier banks. Credit Suisse has around 10,000 IT professionals globally who work for the firm across almost every area of technology, from complex programming and client relationship management to information architecture.

Credit Suisse

Detica

Detica specialises in collecting, managing and exploiting information to reveal actionable intelligence. Combining technological innovation with in-depth industry knowledge, Detica has developed a unique, world-class security capability. Our business and technical consultants offer a range of core services from strategy formulation through people and process change to the development, delivery and support of software and hardware technology. Detica delivers projects of significant scale across government and commercial markets in the UK, US and around the world. We have offices in London, Gatwick, Guildford, Gloucester, Washington DC and Columbia.

Detica

Deutsche Bank (Group Technology and Operations)

Deutsche Bank is one of the largest, most technologically driven investment banks in the world. By embracing pioneering technologies and reengineering processes, Deutsche Bank's Group Technology & Operations look to deliver world class client service - it is our job to make the bank efficient and responsive today, whilst building a flexible infrastructure that will meet the demands of tomorrow.

Deutsche Bank

Formicary

Established in 2000 with offices in Europe, North America and Australia, Formicary is an information technology company that focuses on providing first class solutions for the financial services industry. We currently provide softwares and specialist services to many of the World's largest investment banks.

Formicary

Google

At Google, you have the opportunity to do impactful and challenging work no matter where you are. Our engineers work on exciting, cutting-edge computer science problems. We are also looking for the brightest minds in media, sales, marketing, finance and product management to help us change the world. We hire at all levels of academic experience for opportunities throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa including Dublin, London, Tel Aviv, Wroclaw and Zurich.

Google

IBM

IBM is the world leader in IT services and consultancy. Across industries including business, finance, health, retail, sport, media and entertainment, it's likely that an IBM system or solution is helping to provide the service. We offer a Graduate Scheme, Industrial Trainee Placement Scheme and Extreme Blue Summer Internship programme. Applications are now being accepted on our recruitment website for Graduate Software Development roles and Graduate Information Developer roles, as well as our 12-week Extreme Blue Summer internships (deadline 31 January 2010). We will be in touch with all students who register interest with us through the website.

IBM

Microsoft Research

Microsoft Research Cambridge is one of the largest computer science research laboratories in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). With over 100 leading researchers from around the world across various disciplines, we work hard to provide a world-class academic environment that promotes creativity and independent thinking, while providing a challenging and open work environment.

Microsoft Research

Morgan Stanley

At Morgan Stanley, Technology works as a strategic partner with our business units and with the world's leading technology companies, to redefine how we do business in financial markets that are increasingly global, complex, and dynamic. Our technologists sit side by side with our traders, bankers, and investment management professionals, to explore how advanced technology can help us set new standards for excellence in the financial world. Join a company where you have a chance to make a rapid impact as a technologist. We offer a 6 month Industrial Placement Programme, a 10 week Summer Internship Programme and a Full-time Analyst Programme. We are currently recruiting for Full-time Technology Analysts for Feb 2011 entry (earlier start dates also available).

Morgan Stanley

Netcraft

Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath which provides Internet data mining, defences against fraud and phishing, web application security testing, and automated penetration testing. Clients include many of the world's leading Internet infrastructure and financial companies, and in particular, Netcraft's anti-phishing services are very widely licensed, ultimately protecting hundreds of millions of people.

Netcraft

Ocado

Ocado, the pioneering, award winning online retailer, is revolutionising the way people shop for groceries. With one of the largest automated warehouses in the world, leading edge inventory management and routing systems, innovative smartphone apps and a critically acclaimed web shop, our unique business model has enabled us to grow into a publicly listed company with a £600 million turnover in less than 10 years. Almost all of the software that runs our business is developed by Ocado Technology, Ocado's IT division, and we are continuously looking to hire more top flight computer scientists - and graduates in related disciplines - to build our next generation of software systems. From the combinatorial optimisation algorithms that fine tune our daily delivery routes to the machine learning techniques that drive our consumer demand forecasting, to our embedded control systems, and designing the user interface experiences that form the public face of our company to our customers, we will offer you new challenges each and every day that will require you to apply all of your education and creativity to solve.

Ocado

Paddy Power

Paddy Power is Ireland's biggest and most successful bookmaker and has a significant presence in the UK. We are currently seeking highly skilled IT professionals who can ensure our fast-growing IT department leads the company charge on innovation, time to market, quality of product, service, scale, leverage and value for money. Not only do we offer employment in a secure and growing company, but we are also a fun place to work. We strive to use the very best technologies and practices in solving interesting problems, with and for the most intelligent, imaginative and exciting colleagues (more information).

Paddy Power

Royal Bank of Scotland (Global Banking and Markets)

This is an exciting time to join RBS. Graduates and interns who do will find themselves at the centre of our regeneration, redefining RBS and delivering solutions that will shape not only our business, but the future of banking. With a commitment to giving career-building responsibility from day one, you will influence the strategic decisions we make going forward. To achieve the extraordinary, and to seize the opportunities at the heart of an organisation that is poised for transformation, start by visiting our recruitment website.

RBS

Trayport

Trayport is the foremost supplier of multi-asset class electronic trading and order matching software for Brokers, Exchanges and Traders worldwide. We develop, deploy and support high quality, highly resilient software for trading any asset class in any location in the world for cleared or OTC markets. Our software is used by some of the world's largest trading companies in high profile markets that include derivative and cash instruments.

Trayport

Winton Capital Management

Winton Capital Management is a world leading quantitative investment firm specialising in applying advanced statistical techniques and technology for the analysis of financial markets. Winton's unique culture of flexibility and innovation has allowed it to grow quickly and the company now employs 180 professionals across five locations in the UK and Asia.

Winton Capital Management

Current Members

Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With approximately 177,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$23.39 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2008.

Accenture

Aspect Capital

Aspect Capital is a well established investment manager trading $4bn across 150 markets and 8 exchanges globally. Through a quantitative and systematic approach we aim to provide superior Alpha-driven returns to our clients. As a systematic investment manager, we rely on a highly scalable and effective technology platform in order to maintain our competitive edge. Working with a first class team, successful candidates will have ample opportunity to expand their knowledge and skills, innovate to solve challenging technological and financial problems and participate in a dynamic, hard working and friendly environment. Interested applicants should contact recruitment@aspectcapital.com

Aspect Capital

ATASS Sports

ATASS Sports is a statistical research consultancy providing high quality modelling and analysis for the sports industry. We combine expertise in statistical analysis and research with in-depth sports knowledge, and dominate the sports modelling industry in the UK and abroad. We attract graduates from mathematics, statistics and computer science, all of whom share an understanding of the value of statistical modelling and analysis in real world situations.

ATASS Sports

Amadeus Services Limited

Amadeus is a global market leading IT company that develops innovative technology solutions for the world's leading travel service providers. Our mindset and our business are truly global. We thrive by sharing information across borders and across businesses in working environments that foster open, fluid communication. We are looking for talented graduates to join us as Software Engineers and Functional Analysts with knowledge of C/C++, Java, NT, UML, Oracle, Assembler, TPF, TCP/IP and/or MQ Series.

Amadeus

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

At Bank of America Merrill Lynch, a culture of innovation is at the heart of everything the Technology group strive for. Join us, and you'll be integral to our growth agenda. We'll give you the highest level of training and mentoring support. And our diverse associate base means you'll be working with people with broad-ranging experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. In short, it's all here for graduates who want the freedom to shape their own lives, their own careers and their own destinies growing into leadership roles. The application deadline for full-time positions is 12 November 2010 and for internships 17 December 2010.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Barclays Capital

Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC. With a distinctive business model, Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrum of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs. Barclays Capital has offices around the world, employs 20,000 people and has the global reach, advisory services and distribution power to meet the needs of issuers and investors worldwide.

Barclays Capital

Bloomberg

Bloomberg, the premier financial technology firm, offers exciting opportunities for highly motivated software developers to build and enhance its state of the art line of products. You will join a team and gain responsibility for the full lifecycle of a portion of our product, making a tangible contribution to the design, implementation and testing of software. We recruit throughout the year for interns and full-time software developers.

Bloomberg

Citi

Citi, the leading global financial services company, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 140 countries. The organisation is passionate about what it does and is looking for graduates who want to be a part of that vision. Citi needs exceptional individuals, which is why it provides the brightest and best with an opportunity to make a difference, and ultimately a compelling career path. Citi is a great place to start a career. Full-time and internship opportunities exist across a broad set of businesses including Investment Banking, Capital Markets Origination, Sales & Trading, Global Transaction Services, Private Bank, Risk Management, Human Resources and Technology. At Citi graduates won't just achieve their ambitions - they'll exceed them.

Citi

Citrix

Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of virtual computing solutions that help companies deliver IT as an on-demand service. More than 230,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to help them build simpler and more cost-effective IT environments. A career with Citrix provides unequalled opportunities for impact and success. You'll be working with cutting-edge technology including virtualization and cloud solutions. We are looking for bright and enthusiastic graduates in computer science or related field to join our experienced team in developing and testing our existing and new products towards our vision of consumer driven access to Cloud-based computing.

Citrix

Gloucester Research

Gloucester Research Ltd produces investment research, software and IT systems for use in investment management. The company was founded in August 2001. Since inception, Gloucester Research has been focused on achieving the best combinations of technology and trading ideas. Every day we invest in our people, systems, networking and software with the goal of producing integrated automated trading platforms for systematic trading strategies. Over the years since we started, we have developed a sophisticated research platform to leverage investment knowledge in a systematic way. Our systems software and trade settlement services are used for trading in markets around the globe and around the clock.

Gloucester Research

Imagination Technologies

Imagination Technologies Group PLC (LSE:IMG) is a global leader in multimedia and communication silicon technologies. We create and license market-leading processor cores for graphics, video, multi-threaded embedded processing/DSP and multi-standard communications applications. Target markets include mobile phone, handheld multimedia, home consumer entertainment, mobile and low-power computing, and in-car electronics. Imagination has corporate headquarters in the United Kingdom, with sales and R&D offices worldwide.

Imagination Technologies

Infosys

Infosys Limited (NASDAQ: INFY) was started in 1981 by seven people with US$ 250. Today, we are a global leader in the "next generation" of IT and consulting with revenues of US$ 6.825 billion (LTM Q3-FY12). Our global footprint spans 64 offices and 68 development centers in US, India, China, Australia, Japan, Middle East, UK, Germany, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Canada and many other countries. Infosys and its subsidiaries have 145,088 employees as of December 31 2011. Infosys defines, designs and delivers technology-enabled business solutions for Global 2000 companies. Our offerings span business and technology consulting, application services, systems integration, product engineering, custom software development, maintenance, re-engineering, independent testing and validation services, IT infrastructure services and business process outsourcing.

Infosys

Maxeler Technologies

Maxeler Technologies provides comprehensive acceleration services for High Performance Computing (HPC) applications. We are a "one-stop" HPC shop with hardware, software and consulting staff that work with scientists and analysts in fields as varied as financial modelling and Geophysics. Our target is to deliver substantially increased performance. We combine HPC consulting and pioneering thinking with custom acceleration technology and HPC architecture to enable next-generation algorithms and provide a lasting competitive advantage. By augmenting an existing HPC infrastructure with acceleration hardware and corresponding software we accelerate our customers' applications by an order of magnitude, typically achieving 30x improvement in time of computation with significant reduction in required space and power.

Maxeler Technologies

Next Jump

Next Jump are a world leading web development company, providing corporate reward sites for most of the largest and most prestigious organisations in the FTSE100 including BT, HSBC, RBS, GSK and many more. We are looking for technology rockstars who are driven and enthusiastic and have a passion for cutting edge technology. Based in London, you'll be joining a fast-paced and rapidly-growing company that aims to make itself the best place to work in the world and therefore offer great perks such as free healthy breakfast, snacks and dinner every day, at least two trips a year to the head office in New York, private healthcare, gym membership, free laundry service, travel fun allowance etc.

Next Jump

Nomura

Nomura is a leading financial services group and the pre-eminent independent investment bank with worldwide reach. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in London, Hong Kong and New York, we have offices in over 30 countries and employ more than 27,000 people worldwide. Our Corporate Infrastructure is what underpins the success of the entire organization. Work in these areas with us and you'll be operating at the forefront of your field, as well as gaining a valuable insight into how Nomura operates on a global scale. Within our Technology division, get involved in developing new applications to implement cutting-edge standards, constantly staying at the forefront of technology. Develop an impressive level of technical knowledge and build skills in systems development and support.

Nomura

Orbis Investment

Orbis is a high-performing privately-owned global asset management organisation with around $17 billion under management in long equity and hedge funds. We have offices in Bermuda, London, Vancouver, San Francisco, Seoul and Sydney. We are always on the lookout for the brightest and the most talented people from any background. We don't have detailed job descriptions and have the flexibility to craft roles for the right people. We are currently recruiting into all our business areas including IT. We believe IT is integral to the business and has the potential to give us a competitive advantage in every facet of the organisation. Developers work closely with the business and deliver creative, efficient solutions. They get full exposure to the entire lifecycle of projects. All our IT systems are developed in-house using Microsoft VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET and SQL Server.

Orbis Investment

Oxford Instruments

Oxford Instruments aims to pursue responsible development and deeper understanding of our world through science and technology. We use innovation to turn smart science into world-class products that support research and industry to address the great challenges of the 21st Century. Our core competencies lie in analysing and manipulating matter at the atomic level and we focus on developing high-technology tools and systems that meet the stringent requirements demanded by our customers. Innovation drives the company. Since 1959 it has been the key to its growth and success. Oxford Instruments is a global company with offices and manufacturing sites in over 25 locations, world-wide. Customers benefit from local support, backed by an international network of teams, agents and distributors, all part of a robust, established public company.

Oxford Instruments

Quest Software

Quest Software (Nasdaq: QSFT) simplifies and reduces the cost of managing IT for more than 100,000 customers worldwide. Our innovative solutions make solving the toughest IT management problems easier, enabling customers to save time and money across physical, virtual and cloud environments. For more information about Quest solutions for application management, database management, Windows management, virtualization management, and IT management, go to www.quest.com.

Quest Software

Shazam

Shazam started out 11 years ago as a music recognition app before the advent of smartphones. We are now the 4th most downloaded app, have 150 million users in 200 countries and have evolved from music recognition to also provide a full music experience from recommendations to buying the track. Our next exciting step is moving into TV. We are a fast growing company that have kept our start-up feel. The office is in Hammersmith and we have a full games room, free bagels on a Friday and free beers on payday Friday!

Shazam

SunGard

SunGard is a global leader in software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. We serve more than 25,000 customers in more than 50 countries worldwide. SunGard Financial Systems provides mission-critical software and IT services to institutions in virtually every segment of the financial services industry. Our technology accounts for and manages more than $25 trillion in investment assets and processes more than five million trades a day. SunGard offers careers that combine the independence of working in a small entrepreneurial environment with the global scale and resources of a Fortune 500 technology company.

SunGard

SAP (Germany)

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device - SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. The SAP Innovation Center Potsdam (near Berlin) is a new initiative at SAP to bring innovative ideas from academia and our customers into new or existing SAP products. We are currently looking for interns and full time employees to join this exciting new team. Enter 'Potsdam' as a search term in our SAP Career Center to find the job postings.

SAP

TNG Technology Consulting

TNG Technology Consulting is a value-based consulting partnership focused on high end information technology. We support our customers with up-to-date tools and innovative ideas. Our mission is to analyze and solve the strategic or routine IT problems our customers have. By relying on teamwork and fast communications, each customer can access the expertise pool of the whole company. We hire only the best experts. Our people have the freedom to grow and the responsibility to do so. We believe that a rational cooperation between ourselves and our customers is both achievable and mutually beneficial.

TNG Technology Consulting

UBS

Information Technology has revolutionized financial services, and UBS is on the front lines of its global advancement. Headquartered in Zurich and Basel, UBS serves a discerning, international client base through our wealth management, investment banking and asset management businesses. Our IT professionals are responsible for building and maintaining applications and a systems infrastructure with the capacity to meet the technological challenges facing UBS both now and in the future.

UBS

Yell

As Yell moves from being a purely paper based advertiser to an online digital agency, our Technology department is constantly evolving and growing. We explore the potential of new ideas, technologies and market trends and develop programs and apps to meet demand. Yell Labs have launched a number of free apps for the mobile market including an Augmented Reality app and a Yell for Bikes app. For more information on our latest products, see Yell's Linkedin page.

Yell

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CPP Corporate Partners

Imperial Department of Computing students represent some of the top software engineering talent in the UK. Our Corporate Partnership Programme is designed to assist your organisation in the recruitment of our students through access to a package of benefits. One of the key benefits of membership is access to a database of students seeking employment opportunities in organisations like yours; the database contains student CVs and you can search by type of employment sought, industry sector and degree course.

Corporate Partners may login in here to access our database of student CVs.

Corporate login

You can find your Login details in your CPP membership letter. If you have forgotten you login details or wish to apply for membership, please email cpp@doc.ic.ac.uk for guidance.

DoC Students

The Corporate Partnership Programme provides DoC students with the opportunity to benefit from our enhanced relationship with partner organisations by assisting students with their employment searches. In addition, any funds raised through the CPP will be used primarily for academic sponsorship to benefit students.

Through the CPP database we are providing the opportunity for our Corporate Partners to contact you directly regarding relevant employment opportunities according to the details you provide. If you are currently seeking an employment opportunity such as a summer internship, Industrial Placement or graduate employment you can upload your details and CV to the database. Our Corporate Partners have access to search the database for suitable candidates for their positions and by registering you give them permission to contact you regarding the opportunities.

Students may login in here to register CVs and details of employment sought.

Student login

It is easy to register. Simply login with your DoC username and password then select the type of employment you are seeking, the industrial sectors you are interested in and then upload your CV in PDF or DOC format. There is also the opportunity to upload additional documents such as a transcript or covering letter.

Once you have uploaded your CV you can login at any time to update your information. We advise that when you are not actively seeking an employment opportunity you deselect the corresponding employment type buttons.

DoC Admin Login

For any enquiries regarding the Corporate Partnership Program please contact us via email at cpp@doc.ic.ac.uk
 

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