Our client is looking for a Trading System Engineer to help expand their technical operations. The successful candidate will be working very closely with their traders and business team. This position will be responsible for the configuration management, support and assurance of their proprietary trading applications in multiple production silos. This position is expected to manage and coordinate with development, infrastructure and external vendor teams to provide superior performance and availability to each production application.
If you aspire to:
- Be a Front Office Trade Support Engineer
- Provide technical expertise to support and enhance core trading applications.
- Demonstrate an ability to analyze complex business/technical problems and make sound technical decisions proactively and in a self-directed manner.
Responsibilities:
- Configuration management of multiple production silos, covering multiple asset classes.
- The uptime, capacity, and performance among other aspects of day-to-day operations of trading systems.
- Working with development teams in regression testing functionality and stress testing application servers for capacity and performance.
- Contributing to the quality of service lines by participating in product development starting with the inception stage.
- Working on tactical tools development for the traders and business teams.
- Managing critical and direct communication lines with Traders, Business Managers, and Development Leads on all aspects of projects.
- Escalating hot issues pro-actively and ensuring all stakeholders are kept abreast of issues through resolution.
- Creating extensive documentation and procedures.
Qualifications:
- Prior experience supporting traders, trading desks is preferable.
- Proven experience of application support and administration.
- Solid knowledge of Trading Systems Applications including OMS and FIX engines.
- Solid experience in UNIX/Linux, Networking, Perl, Python, Sybase SQL, Shell Scripting.
- Proven problem solving experience, turning around with solutions in a demanding timeline.
- Solid communication and interpersonal skills applicable to a dynamic trading environment.
- Experience with software analysis, leading to bug-fixing, development, code enhancement is desirable.
- Experience with testing methodologies and test tools is desirable.
- Knowledge of market data systems and/or order entry.
Education:
- An undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related engineering or science curriculum
If you would like to be considered for the position of Trade Support Engineer, or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team
