Hedge Fund Trading System Operator recruitment
Trading system operator supports daily trading and market data related operations. This is a technical supporting role. The perspective candidate will spend about 70% of time monitoring various trading and data processing applications, trouble shooting trading and market data related issues, and help portfolio managers and other users in the company on specific inquiries regarding trading or market data, while spend about 30% of time doing development (see details below).
Key Responsibilities:
- Monitor trading system and trading strategies for any real time issues, such as network connectivity problem, trading violation, fix incorrect trades etc, and notify affected users as necessary
- Prepare reports on trading PNL, reconcile trades with brokers
- Monitor various market data retrieval applications for possible quality/availability issues and apply fix, or escalating to internal or external parties for further investigation/fix.
- Develop programs to handle trading operations and production process monitoring, enhancing existing system ( mostly using Perl and some shell scripting)
- Trouble shoot market data related problems such as; data delay, missing data, inaccurate data and coordinate with appropriate party to solve the problem
- Perform investigations on the production system and answer inquiries regarding trading issues from Portfolio managers
- Help users of market data get familiar with the data content, collaborate with data vendors on clarifying data usage, format etc.
Requirements for perspective candidates:
- Interested in applying technology to real situation, comfortable working in fast paced working environment, detail oriented and capable performing task under tie pressure
- Effective problem solving both independently or as member of a team
- Good communication skills: must be fluent in English, spoken and written
- Background in Computer Science, Engineering, Math Physics, with minimum Bachelor’s degree, Masters or above is preferred. Proof of good academic record (such as GPA or other relevant test scores)
- Experienced with working under Linux environment. Proficient with common utilities such as find/grep/awk/sed/ls/cut/cp/tar/ps/ssh etc. Familiar with Vi or Emacs for editing files
- Experience with scripting language, Perl and shell scripting are required, knowing Python is a plus. This requirement can be dropped/loosened only if candidate shows strong ability in other required skills, and successfully demonstrate he/she can pick up the skill in reasonable time frame.
- Knowledge of C/C++, common algorithms and data structures (binary tree, sorting, etc) and Object Oriented design. Familiar with compilers, debuggers under Linux (gcc, g++, gdb)
- Familiar with database operations (with MySQL), including schema building, query, data loading, backup, restore
February 11, 2012
• Tags: Hedge Fund Trading System Operator recruitment, Information Technology careers in the Singapore • Posted in: Financial