Production Support – Listed Derivatives Expert SME

Description de la mission

We are currently recruiting for an experienced production support engineer to join the Exchange Traded Derivatives Execution group at an international investment bank.
This is a techno/functional support role supporting client connectivity (FIX), OMS/EMS, Algorithmic trading, post trade components (STP) and more.
Sitting with the derivatives HT and LT sales traders and quants on the trading floor, you will be the main IT contact of the business and closely working with them to ensure smooth business operations. You will be in charge of monitoring, ensuring the trading platform stability, investigating functional and technical issues and driving platform and functionalities enhancements
A strong IT knowledge with coupled with very good understanding of the derivatives products and execution business (with a focus on algorithmic trading) is required to perform on this role.
Responsibilities:
Technical and functional support of the Derivatives execution platform
Day-to-day management of production: monitoring, capacity management, incident management, problem resolution activities, change management
Day-to-day support of: derivative algo trading platform, OMS/EMS, FIX messaging, client connectivity …
Responsible for efficient resolution of issues to minimize impact to clients and internal users including liaising with end users, team members, management, vendors, other internal IT teams…
Perform activities related to implementation and rollout for upgrades of existing services
Work closely with development teams, business analysts, architects, all infrastructure teams to design and setup new systems and improve existing platforms (resilience, high availability, performance, low-latency, new functionalities…)
Coordinate and organise changes with external vendors, markets, ECNs
Plan, schedule, implement and document the change activities
Improve team documentation, keep it up-to-date and share knowledge with global team
Essential SKills
Strong production support & engineering experience
Strong Unix/Linux
Scripting experience
Business knowledge: Derivatives products and execution
FIX protocol
Networks and protocols
Extra nice to have skills:
Algo trading
ITRS Geneos
Please submit your CV immediatley in order to be considered for this role
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