Job description
Our client, a prominent financial services group with a great presence in the APAC market, is seeking a candidate to provide equity trading application support to the investment team.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for ensuring the smooth running of production Electronic Trading platform regionally including Fidessa, Bloomberg and in house applications
- Providing the highest level of service managing day-to-day support of all the front-office trading systems, including, FIX onboarding management, client connectivity, order management systems, algorithmic trading, Direct Market Access, and High Frequency Trading for co-location flows
- Located on the trading floor you will be required to maintain a high level of decorum to interact closely with regional and global business users, as well as other groups in Technology, to ensure issues are addressed and communicated in a timely manner to meet agreed SLA’s
- Work closely with developers and business analysts to coordinate system rollouts and application updates and providing feedback on production system performance, and investigate production problems and identify solutions
- Managing and resolving outages as efficiently as possible with a demonstrated ability to maintain communications with all stakeholders until resolution
- Driving operating procedure excellence in incident management, change management and problem management
- Proactively identifying potential production issues across the Electronic Trading stack and determining areas for continuous improvement
- 3+ years working experience in equity trading industry
- Educated to degree level in engineering or science discipline
- Experience working within production support within a financial service organization
- Good system knowledge of Unix/Ubuntu OS and SQL database
- Strong analytical, problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with FIX Protocol, troubleshooting experience in direct market access, high-frequency trading and algorithmic trading
- Knowledge of trading system support and FIX protocol & Connectivity
- Proactive, has initiative, diligent, hardworking. Willing to learn
- Team player as well as being able to work independently, ability and experience in leading a team would be an advantage
- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
- Able to work under pressure in time sensitive trading environment
