Our client is one of the largest financial firms globally. Due to business needs, an application support engineer with a background in fixed ie or FICC is needed to join their team.
Role :
- Enhance, support and maintain the firm’smodities front, middle and back-office systems
- Work as a part of the global Application Support team based in Chicago, New York, London, San Francisco, Houston, Hong Kong and Singapore
- Proactively engage with PMs, Traders, and Analysts to resolve issues and identify improvement opportunities
- Documentmon support issues, trade flows and procedures on Confluence
- Roll out, setup, and educate end-users on new product implementations
- Support other geographic locations , monitor jobs running overnight in Asia, EU and US.
- Work with external vendors technical support teams to resolve issues and deliver strategic enhancements
- Provide escalation support for other regions, including evenings and weekends, on a rotational basis
Requirements :
5+ years of experience working with investment banks, asset managers,modity houses, investment advisors or associated software vendorsThorough understanding of the trade life cycle formodities products, such as Gas, Power, Oil, Metals, Ags or Freight. Must be able to discuss details of these products with Portfolio Managers, Analysts and Risk Managers.Experience supporting physicalmodities tradingExperience supporting Production environments within an ITIL framework and Development environments using agile methodologiesStrong troubleshooting and creative problem-solving abilities, including being able to interpret, understand and troubleshoot internally developed systemsExperience supportingmodities trading platforms such as Trayport Joule, WebICE and EEXExperience supporting CTRM / ETRM platforms such as ION Endur / CXL and OpenlinkKnowledge of Market Data services – Trayport / B-PIPE / MorningStarKnowledge of Messaging platforms – RabbitMQ / Solace / KafkaSQL experience across various database implementations, including MSSQLExposure to support of Linux, C++, C#, Python based applicationsOperate with a high degree of accuracy with close attention to detailStrong written and verbalmunication skills