Responsibilities:
- Work with Front Office Traders and investment professionals to culminate business requirements
- Solve real time trading issues and make suitable judgement calls on operational risk
- Help with deployment, checkout and QA testing of connectivity with counterparties
- Manage connectivity to the street whilst working closely with brokers to certify new sessions and troubleshoot live trading issues with brokers
- Work in all aspects of user / strategy application assistance for the Asset manager Equity team
- Work in conjunction with back-office teams to remedy issues related to security setup, trade booking, corporate actions, price breaks and bookkeeping entries.
Requirements:
- 5-10 years of work experience in a relevant area
- Bachelors Degree (or above) in Engineering or Computer Science or a related field
- Knowledge of trading and / or risk systems
- Experience with Unix, Linux
- Experience onboarding and certifying new connections to counterparties
- Knowledge of working with parsing exchange provided security information
- Proficiency in shell scripting language
- Knowledge of FIX and binary protocols
- Experience with databases such as Sybase or SQL
- Understanding of trading workflows - DMA, Algo, SOR
- Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical colleagues alike (written and verbal)
- Passionate about solving investment business problems using technology and fundamentals
- Proficient context switcher in fast-paced, mission critical environments
- Detail-oriented approach to solving problems
- Strong work ethic
