Production Support - London, United Kingdom - Sanderson-iKas

Sanderson-iKas

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Sanderson-iKas London, United KingdomPosted 10 minutes ago Hybrid Contract GBP600 - GBP700 per day

Production Support
Algo Trading Platform

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
Daytoday management of production: monitoring, capacity management, incident management, problem resolution activities, change management
Daytoday 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, lowlatency, new functionalities...)
Coordinate and organise changes with external vendors, markets, ECNs
Plan, schedule, implement and document the change activities
Improve team documentation, keep it uptodate and share knowledge with global team

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