Operational Support for Trading Systems and Users – Interest Rates Cash and Derivatives.
Key Responsibilities:

- Frontline problem resolution from trading desks.
- Production ownership of;
- B2C and B2B Trading Systems
- Trade Capture
- Pricing, Position and Risk systems (Cash & Derivatives)
- Market Connectivity and Trading infrastructure.
- Liason with Vendors and Markets for support and new products.
- Escalation / ownership of chronic technical issues in production environment. Manage system recovery with other members of the team and developers and coordinate communication with affected users.
- Work with other functional / product team to troubleshoot and resolve inter-system and cross asset class issues.
- Utilise experiences and desk knowledge to provide/assist development recommendation for system enhancement (internal developers and vendor).
- Create / Maintain / Update support documentation for trading platform.
- System administration tasks required day-to-day operations of the trading platform.
-Participate in projects and deployments. Includes product enhancement to existing markets and new business development.

Requirements:

Skills Required – Excellent Unix / Linux knowledge.
- Excellent RDMS skills (preference Sybase)
- Shell scripting and Perl/Python.
- Good knowledge of electronic financial markets. Connectivity and pub/sub understanding desirable.
- Experience with real-time pricing & risk systems would be an advantage.
- Good communication and inter-personal skills a prime requirement.

 

Location: New York, NY

Salary: $100,000 – $120,000

Contact: Kendal Ridgeway