MDS Infrastructure Technical Analyst recruitment
Job Purpose:
Market Data Infrastructure Technical Analyst working as part of the EMEA MDS Engineering and Operations team.
- High profile problem resolution and root cause analyses for market data infrastructure and application issues.
- Design, implementation and testing of upgrades and new installations for Market data based systems.
- Contribution to meetings and conference calls with other technology and business teams
- Contribution to meetings with the controls and compliance team via RCSA and Audit.
Primary Technical systems in scope will include:
- Reuters RMDS (inc. RTIC, P2PS, DACS, DTS)
- Reuters 3000Xtra
- Reuters Dealing 3000 / Matching
- EBS Dealing
- Contributions Systems (Gissing Contex)Bloomberg
- Aspen Graphics
- CQG
- Direct exchange feeds (Rdfd) (Eurex)
- Broker feeds
Responsibilities:
Provide support for market data systems by solving high-profile problems and performing root cause analyses for market data server-based and data display applications.
Design, implementation and testing of upgrades and new installations for Market data based systems. Providing technical consultation and guidance to other staff.
Work on continuous improvement of MDS monitoring systems, identify and proactively resolve issues that could impact system performance, reliability and usability.
Ensure that defined Citigroup standards for change management and problem management are adhered to.
Coordinate with MDS groups globally on definition and implementation of common standards.
Development Value:
- Build knowledge of market data systems, working with an experienced team implementing the latest technologies.
- Build system support skills, working in a highly organized environment where procedures are continuously improved for efficiency.
- Build market data industry knowledge through exposure to and evaluation of new systems/technologies. (Training will be arranged as applicable)
- Build client/customer relationship skills
Skills
Knowledge/Experience:
Strong market data systems knowledge and experience of undertaking complex MDS system design and implementation work.
Knowledge areas of particular relevance are:
- Reuters RMDS (inc. RTIC, P2PS, DACS, DTS)
- Reuters / EBS Dealing
- Reuters APIs: RFA, SFC, DACS API
- Bloomberg APIs/Interfaces
- Contributions Systems, Gissing ConteX
- Other MDS systems, such as Aspen, CQG, Blackberry solutions, Tick Capture Engines
- Tibco Rendezvous messaging
- ITRS Geneos (NetAgent) monitoring, other system monitoring tools
- General network design, multicast routing
- Experience of writing general project and market data system test documentation
Skills:
The candidate should have good knowledge at least one of the following areas have excellent knowledge of the others, as well as have a good understanding of Enterprise Architecture methodology.
- Solaris, AIX, Linux, Windows
- RMDS
- Reuters / EBS Dealing
- MDS Desktop components
- Designing for production, resilience, scalability, performance
- Project Management, Issue resolution, vendor management
Exceptional candidates who do not meet these criteria may be considered for the role provided they have the necessary skills and experience.
Competencies:
- Teamwork
- Excellent communication skills (including listening)
- A positive, pro-active and self motivating attitude
- Ability to work on multiple projects/tasks at one time. (Time management / prioritisation)
- Ability to work under pressure, to challenging time-bound targets
- Relationship building, especially with customers/clients
- Good attention to detail, especially in respect of documentation
- Strong problem solving skills
- Design skills; ability to think independently, formulate and communicate original ideas
Valuing Diversity:
Demonstrates an appreciation of a diverse workforce. Appreciates differences in style or perspective and uses differences to add value to decisions or actions and organizational success.