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I’m doing a search for one of my financial clients in New York City.
The primary responsibilities of this position include the testing and integration of new FIX Electronic Trading Order Management and Routing infrastructure. As a member of the Client Integration team, a candidate will be responsible for the development and integration of FIX Interfaces between the company and External clients. Daily responsibilities include managing the configuration and testing of proprietary FIX Router applications that provide clients with access to proprietary Front-End trading applications, strategy engines and direct exchanges destinations. This position involves working closely with Equity Business Unit clients, Application Development groups and Third Party Vendors to establish system requirements, design specification and FIX message format to accommodate the individual trading and order handling requirements of clients. The responsibilities of this position include the planning, execution and support of turnovers/upgrades to implement new infrastructure and upgrade existing systems in the production environment.
Skills Required: A potential candidate should have extensive experience with FIX protocol and a strong background in systems integration of Equity Trading applications and products. Having Experience working with ECN’s, and or Third Party OMS/Connectivity vendors are a major plus. This position also requires a solid understanding of connectivity, networks, firewall and TCP/IP protocol. An additional requirement is that the candidate must have experience managing configuration and application changes in an electronic trading environment. A candidate must be able to implement system changes in a global environment.
Skills Desired: This position requires a strong background in Equity Trading Systems, FIX protocol, and the UNIX operating system. Experience with using Sybase tables is a plus. The candidate does not necessarily have to be an expert in C++, but should have a general knowledge of programming including debugging and testing new versions of production binaries. I am looking for a candidate with at least 3 years experience in the Financial Services Industry as well as a B.S. in computer science or a similar degree. The candidate must have the ability to function in a trading floor environment and most importantly, work well under pressure.
Base Salary will depend upon the level of experience that the candidate brings to the table. The base could be anywhere from 120k to 140k and a bonus.
Please send your resume to michael@verticalsearchpartners.com in a word attachment
Michael MacAniff
Managing Director
Vertical Search Partners LLC
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