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Description
Primary Responsibilities:
- FIX Client Integration and day to day management of production FIX Interfaces to our Electronic Trading environment.
- This position involves extensive interaction with our external clients and Equities Business Unit.
Typical Activities:
- Electronic Trading Interface design, client interface configuration.
- Working with Clients to establish Connectivity, Execute Unit and Certification testing.
- Participate in testing of new versions binaries and execute upgrades of existing environments.
Skills Required
- At least 3 to 5 Years Experience working in the Financial Services Industry
- TCP/IP basics
- Strong UNIX background - including understanding of file systems, symbolic links and process management
- FIX - should have some experience with FIX and Client Connectivity, Order Flow Routing and Electronic Trading.
- Candidate should have experience implementing change to a production trading environment
- Excellent Communications skills - both verbal and written
- Team player that can function as part of a group and can maintain their composure while working under pressure.
Skills Desired
Additional Skills that would make candidate competitive:
- Strong Business Acumen - experience with ECNs, DOT, booking and Electronic Trading
- Series #7
- Experience working with compliance and regulatory groups on issues related to Electronic Trading
- Sybase - ability to understand relational database table schemas - does not require DBA skills.
- Perl and KSH scripting
- Experience optimizing systems and performance (speed at which systems perform)