At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage global trading platform readiness and support end-to-end transaction flow.
- Company: Dynamic trading firm with a focus on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, health benefits, and potential bonuses.
- Other info: Great opportunity for growth and learning in a tech-driven industry.
- Why this job: Join a fast-paced environment and make an impact in the trading world.
- Qualifications: Experience in trade flow support and proficiency in Linux and scripting languages.
The predicted salary is between 100000 - 100000 £ per year.
Position Overview:
- Manage global trading platform readiness: pre-trading & post-trading
- Provide monitoring and support for end to end transaction flow across the trading platform
- Quickly identify, analyze and correct alerts & issues and/or escalate to minimize trade flow impact and preempt outages
- Incident management: create and send reports following established process
- Intensive interaction with trading community, back office operations, brokers, exchanges, development and infrastructure teams
- Support scheduled changes: application deployments, network implementations and server maintenance
- Oversee automated processes, scheduled jobs and regular reports
- Manage users’ requests: track requests, review approvals, updates, resolution, closure, etc.
- Identify inefficiencies such as repetitive activities, manual processes and suboptimum tools/workflows to drive continuous improvements via automation, collaboration with internal and external teams
Required Qualifications:
- Hands on trade flow support experience a must
- Proficient in Linux OS
- Proficiency with Bash and a scripting language such as Python or Perl required
- Detailed practical knowledge of FIX. Ideally, familiarity with native exchange protocols
- Experience in SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL)
- Familiarity with Kdb+ is a plus
- Working knowledge with TCP/IP, multicast, tcpdump, clocking (PTP, NTP) – a plus
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related subject
- Highly organized, detailed, control oriented, enjoys solving problems and brings in a "take charge" attitude
- Strong verbal/written communication skills required to support daily interaction with brokers, exchanges, and internal teams
- Self-motivated individual that takes initiatives and has an ownership & accountability mindset
- Must show the ability to make quick decisions and establish priorities in a multi-tasking & fast-paced environment
- Experience with the Atlassian stack (JIRA, Service Desk, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo), Elastic Stack and Nagios
- Knowledge of ITIL is an advantage
Trade Flow Support - Trading Application Support employer: Squarepoint Capital
Squarepoint is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters collaboration and innovation among elite professionals in the trading industry. Located in New York, employees benefit from competitive compensation packages, including discretionary bonuses and comprehensive health and wellness plans, while also having ample opportunities for professional growth and development through mentorship and training programs. Join us to be part of a forward-thinking team that values your contributions and supports your career aspirations.
We think you need these skills to ace Trade Flow Support - Trading Application Support
Trade Flow Support
Linux OS
Bash
Python
Perl
FIX Protocol
SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL)
