SQL Application Support Technician

Squarepoint is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for our clients. We have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute our success to rigorous scientific research. As a technology and data-driven firm, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms. Building on our quantitative research platform and process-driven approach, Squarepoint also runs discretionary strategies to augment our systematic approach and monetize opportunities which may not be suitable to be traded in a systematic strategy. Role: Trade Flow Support – Trading Application Support Manage global trading platform readiness: pre-trading & post-trading Provide monitoring and support for end to end transaction flow across the trading platform Intensive interaction with trading community, back office operations, brokers, exchanges, development and infrastructure teams Support scheduled changes: application deployments, network implementations and server maintenance Identify inefficiencies such as repetitive activities, manual processes and suboptimum tools/workflows to drive continuous improvements via automation, collaboration with internal and external teams 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 Experience in SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL) Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related subject Strong verbal/written communication skills required to support daily interaction with brokers, exchanges, and internal teams Experience with the Atlassian stack (JIRA, Service Desk, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo), Elastic Stack and Nagios Knowledge of ITIL is an advantage