Trading System Lead – Front Office

$130-$200K

Responsible for managing Front Office trading systems. You will be working very closely with the traders and business team, and lead a small team of Trading System Administrators. This position leads the support and assurance initiatives for trading applications, while managing deployment tasks such as software installations, patch upgrades and code deployments, and coordinates with development, infrastructure teams and external vendors.

Responsibilities:
-Responsible for the multiple silo based environments (including production) for core business applications covering electronic trading, pricing and risk systems across multiple product groups.
-Work with development team in regression testing functionality, stress test servers for capacity and performance.
-Contribute to the quality of service lines by measuring, identifying and communicating about applications at their early inception.
-Work with the business teams and lead analysis and project development.
-Work on tactical development and tools development for the traders and business.
-Do functional analysis and documentation.
-Manage direct communication with Traders, Business Managers and Development Leads.
-Escalate hot issues pro-actively and ensure all stakeholders are kept abreast of issues and development.

Qualifications:
-Experience managing production and support on key financial markets systems, including bug-fixing, development and code enhancement.
-Strong experience supporting traders and trading desks is a must.
-Solid knowledge of Trading Systems Applications, OMS, FIX engines.
-Proven experience of application support and administration.
-6-8 years UNIX/Linux, Perl, Python, Scripting, problem solving and support experience in a financial markets environment.
-C++ is desirable.
-Experience with testing methodologies and test tools desirable.
-Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

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