We are seeking a highly skilled E-FICC Technical Operations professional to join a global banking technology/trade-floor team supporting Fixed Income trading and risk platforms. This role is critical in supporting their trading desks across Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities, ensuring the smooth operation of a mixture of vendor systems and their proprietary order routing systems and associated trading infrastructure.This is a new role and requires building from the ground up, building and supporting, and identifying FICC issues and advising how these can be rectified and supported.This is a hands‑on role requiring strong technical acumen, a deep understanding of Fixed Income products, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast‑paced environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide end-to-end production support for Fixed Income trading platforms (Rates, Credit, FX, Bonds, Derivatives).
- Monitor and maintain system health, ensuring high availability and low latency of critical trading applications.
- Support and enhance monitoring capabilities using ITRS Geneos, initially within FICC and expanding to other asset classes.
- Create monitoring capabilities and enhancements to forestall future enhancements.
- Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve Real Time production issues, working closely with traders, developers, and infrastructure teams.
- Ensure continuous system stability and performance across all FICC trading platforms, supporting both traders and institutional clients.
- Serve as the local subject matter expert for EMEA FICC trading infrastructure, owning the life cycle of proprietary systems and vendor applications-including product releases, upgrades, and ongoing support.
- Support release management, change control, and environment management processes across production and non-production environments.
- Collaborate with development and the trade floor teams to drive automation, monitoring, and process improvements to reduce manual intervention.
- Provide technical expertise on connectivity, data flows, and integration points between trading, pricing, and risk systems.
- Contribute to capacity planning, performance tuning, and resilience testing.
- Support global follow-the-Sun coverage and participate in on-call rotation as required.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Tech Ops Support role within an investment bank or financial institution.
- Solid experience with Unix/Linux, SQL, and at least one Scripting language (Python, Shell, or Perl).
- Understanding of trade life cycle, market data flows, and risk management processes.
- Exposure to DevOps tools and practices (Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Splunk, AppDynamics, etc.).
- Strong communication skills and ability to interface effectively with trading desks, business analysts, and development teams.
- Understanding of the configuration structure across the FICC e-trading ecosystem is mandatory (Bloomberg, Broadway, MarketAxess, Tradeweb
- Knowledge of financial markets and technology is mandatory.
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Trade Floor Operations - FICC in City of London employer: Marcus Donald People Limited
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