Sales Engineer/Project Manager - New York City

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Will be responsible for evaluating prospect requirements, creating opportunities for business by providing prospect awareness through product presentations and demonstrations of products/services offered in order to sell software solutions and consulting to financial services clients specifically in the securities trading industry. The Sales Engineer will work in a team environment with the Account Executives and will be able to answer all technical questions regarding the software and hardware. This person will give prospects a high-level overview of the product and it’s capabilities with an understanding of what the prospects issues are and what results they are wishing to accomplish, thereby creating a demo that is specific to their business needs, and demonstrating the items important to the prospect. Will develop client relationships and articulate client issues to management. Will also participate in crafting solutions for consultative opportunities.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:
*Must be very well versed in protocol design and implementation as well as all other areas related to system integration (networking, databases, programming languages, system administration, performance tuning, etc)
*Ability to configure software to align with prospect’s business processes
*Knowledge of object oriented design and programming experience using Java and/or C++
*Experience with FIX based trading systems and /or FIX based order routing systems is required
*An understanding of the Institutional Trade Flow and Trade Processing business, i.e. knowledge of FIX, Electronic Trade Confirmation, Straight Through Processing (STP) and the current industry initiatives
*Experience with Microsoft Project
*Must be able to travel 80% of time.

Must be authorized to work in the U.S., Sorry, no sponsorship available at this time.

Susan Wolf
Global Systems Staffing, Inc.
212-557-2444
sw@globalssi.com