Trade support Engineer
We are looking for several trade and production support engineers, to work on different clients activities: Equity derivatives (warrants mainly), Equity Flow and High Frequency trading.
As the Trade Support Engineer, you will be responsible for operating the team’s strategies during market hours, which will involve working closely with the team's traders and with Infrastructure and Systems teams. In this high-performance environment, immediate awareness of trading and systems issues and swift responses are essential.
The role is business oriented as well as technical. It involves front-line sales, trader and dealer application support. Technical knowledge is required for diagnosis of trading floor support. Strong interaction with the local IT teams: Network, System, Database and business team will ensure the best responsiveness for the users. Since a lot of the systems are global ones, the duties of this role involves daily to weekly interactions with piers in the support team in other regions as well as developer in Europe.
The scope of systems includes applications developed in-house, vendor trade processing platform (MarkIt) and external connectivity (Fidessa Portal, Bloomberg), as well as customized vendor solution (iC, a transversal Customer Relation Management system based on Microsoft Dynamics)
Your other responsibilities would include:
· Monitoring and Documenting the systems - Develop new monitoring tools when required
· Participate to Test and Roll-out of Trading applications (new version or software)
· Operating and monitoring existing trading strategies
- Adjusting trading and risk parameters to suit market conditions
- Developing tools and scripts to conduct more detailed post-trade analysis
- Reconciling PNL for trading strategies with internal accounting
- Gathering data for new and existing markets
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
- Hands-on knowledge of UNIX, NT, SQL required, PHP, javascript.
- Basic knowledge of Linux and shell command-line tools
- Basic programming (C/C++) and scripting (Perl/Python/Shell) skills
- Very strong attention to detail
- The ability to notice, analyze, and debug problems quickly and effectively
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- The ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
- Interest in trading and the financial markets
French is a plus
We are looking for Junior (2 years’ experience) to senior engineers.
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