FIX Application Support Analyst / Fix Support Engineer, Equities Front Office Trading Division, Tier One Investment Bank recruitment
FIX Application Support Analyst / Fix Support Engineer, Equities Front Office Trading Division, Tier One Investment Bank
Introduction: Montash Associates have been engaged by one of our most prestigious banking clients to assist in the attraction and acquisition of a proactive FIX application support analyst to join a high profile technology team that is integral to the success of the equities trading division.
The Organisation: One of the strongest, most positively reputed financial services firms in the world.
The Team: An application support group that forms part of the equities trading division, this team is responsible for ensuring the stability of business critical client and server-based application processes and their associated infrastructure. This team is tasked with assisting the users of applications by acting as a first point of contact for both application and data queries.
The Project: Multiple, tactical
The Role: Candidates would be expected to perform the following roles:
- Proactive reactive ready-for-business checks
- Proactive reactive real-time monitoring of processes, connections trade flows
- Notifying the business unit of system issues or failures in a timely manner.
- Notify Compliance in a timely manner of regulatory issues.
- Liaise with external parties to resolve issues.
- System break/fix and user recovery
- Investigating and resolving data quality issues
- Investigation of user queries. E.g. flow breaks, booking issues, data issues. Liaison with operations and controllers where appropriate.
- Escalating problems to core development and engineering groups.
- Act as an escalation point for frontline.
- War gaming failure scenarios identify problems with outage recovery procedures. Work with necessary parties to ensure that these are resolved.
- Assisting the users with end-user computing issues.
The Skills:
The following skills are Essential:
- Good working knowledge of FIX.
- Strong technical, communication, analytical and problem solving skills.
- In depth understanding of Equity Cash and derivative trading concepts and ability to interact with traders
- Good understanding of operating systems (UNIX, Windows)
- Good understanding of SQL and Sybase databases.
- Professional ownership of issues
- Knowledge of scripting languages, ksh, Perl, Java, CGI, Visual Basic, HTML and XML.
- Can do attitude
- Candidates should have experience in the financial services industry.
Skills Desired:
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- Experience with Microsoft .NET
- Knowledge of C, C++
The Package: This firm are renowned for bringing in only best technologists. The remuneration on offer confirms this; a base of up to £75,000 plus an excellent benefits package and an uncapped discretionary bonus.
Contact: If this excellent opportunity is of interest, please contact paulk@montash.com or call Paul Kirtley on 0207 749 6069
Keywords: FIX, Application Support, FIX Application Support, FIX Support, Application Support, Support Analyst, Support Engineer, Equities, Equity Trading, Front Office, Investment Bank, London