[rluhar]

You may want to check out the forums at wilmott.com or the forums at nuclearphynance.com

A lot of work in finance is also done in statistical programming languages like R. Some firms have also made big investment in vector processing / APL type languages like q (or k) and time series databases like kdb+.

Event processing / correlation platforms and programming is also gaining a lot of traction in finance. Progress Software's Apama platform, Streambase, and a bunch of other start ups are competing in this space as well.

Technology in finance is huge. It goes from building pricing models for derivatives and bonds (post under discussion), high frequency trading (FPGAs, event correlation,etc), to trade processing (high throughput transaction processing), to web app development (retail trading platforms, ebanking).... I could keep going on and on. It is wide field and if you are interested in working in technology in finance, it is safe to say you could find some nice in which you could use your skills. Obviously pay grades, job quality, etc. vary..

[dustineichler]

I'm only familiar with building pricing models. Thanks for the quick list and links. I kinda want to get into this.

Sans hat tip.