Senior Application Support / Production Management, Derivatives, Options and Futures, Market Making, High Frequency, HK recruitment
Senior Application Support / Production Management, Derivatives, Options and Futures, Market Making, High Frequency, Python, C++, Perl scripting, Hong Kong
Our client, one of the largest Hedge Fund companies, is looking for a Senior Production Management / Application Support Analyst for Equities Derivatives. The ideal candidate will have excellent technical skills including scripting languages, ability to read different codes, and Equity Derivatives product knowledge. They also need to understand the trade life cycle preferable in a market making environment.
This individual will be an integral part of the business and will be involved in administration and maintenance of our trading operations, troubleshooting, developing scripts and other tools to support the trading systems operations, working closely with the global network and development teams, and provide general support directly to the traders and quants.
Candidates must have a strong background in financial technology management, ideally within Equity Derivatives. This is an excellent opportunity to perform a high profile role in a world leading hedge fund that is investing heavily into Asia Technology.
Key Responsibilities:
- Production management tasks with initial focus on Equity Derivatives
- Interface with Regional and Global development groups to ensure delivery meets the required standards
- Global project work in the ITIL focused Production management arena to streamline and drive forward platform capability and associated controls especially focusing on strategic plans
- Detailed knowledge of all business flows, the application architecture and the hardware configuration for supported applications
- Take lead where required under crisis management situations and effectively advise and communicate to traders
- Provide application software and hardware support including driving the development of tools needed to provide effective control and support
- Define new operating system, infrastructure, application and business oriented monitoring alerts and coordinate their integration into existing monitoring tools
- Escalate all unresolved issues to senior management as appropriate
- Essentially take a view to safeguard the production environment and act as gate keeper for all changes and ensure development includes all necessary documentation for each Change request: release notes, test plan + scorecard, backout procedures etc
Essential Skills:
- Unix system tools and scripting / Windows shell scripting
- SQL (IBM UDB, Sybase, MS-SQL, Oracle)
- Products – stocks, futures, options, equity swaps, variance swaps, structured products
- Market Data – basic understanding Reuters or Bloomberg
- Basic understanding of PL calculation, greeks and PL attribution
- Knowledge of trading life cycle is necessary
- Development with C++ on Linux is preferred
- Strong technical troubleshooting and problems solving skills under pressure
- Excellent communication skills in both spoken and written English is a must
If you would like to find out more about the role, please contact Noel Lau on +852 2544 4477 or noel.lau@bahpartners.com
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