Order Gateway Integration Specialist - London, United Kingdom - Squarepoint Capital

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    Role: Software Developer - Order Gateway Integration

    Team : Order Gateway

    Location(s): London

    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. With main investment offices in New York, London and Singapore, we emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning our investment, technology and operations teams functionally around the world.

    Position Overview

    The Order Gateway team develops and maintains Squarepoint Order Entry Gateways. We are looking for an Integrator with project management experience to join our Order Gateway team. You will be responsible to deliver our Business requirement for new venue or features implementation by integrating our Order Gateway products and solutions.

    A successful candidate would own delivery of new venues and features for our gateway connectivity, migrations, deployments and effectively integrating our gateway systems to our business requirements and ensuring our strategies teams to trade on new venues or leverage new feature on existing flows.

    Responsibilities :

  • Manage delivery of strategic initiatives in Order entry and Drop copy flows, owning projects from start to finish.
  • Work closely with developers and stakeholders on business and technical scoping of new projects.
  • Gather and refine requirement for venue onboarding both from internal and external stakeholders, coordinate and deliver implementation from front to back.
  • Write and review technical documentation such as exchange specifications, migration plans.
  • Own migrations such as hardware changes or moving our applications from classic to new generation platforms.
  • Clearly identifying and resolving blockers for our development teams from external dependencies.
  • Provide regular progress status reporting to stakeholders,
  • Manage communication with external vendors, exchanges, and providers to push forward the interests of the firm
  • Identify efficiency gaps on the team and work diligently to resolve them
  • Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related subject
  • 4+ years of relevant experience as systems integrator and exposure to Client/Exchange Connectivity systems.
  • Proficiency in Linux OS
  • Proficiency in FIX protocol
  • Good understanding of Trade Life Cycle.
  • Experience with Business-Driven Software integration, Application Lifecycle Management, Change and Release management.
  • Great communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • Ability to clearly articular concepts in both a technical and non-technical manner
  • Highly organized with excellent attention to detail
  • Experience with Jira and Confluence
  • Nice to have:

  • Project management / technical business analyst experience
  • Proficiency in C++ or Python
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines
  • Financial knowledge across various asset classes .