Trade Support / FIX

Imported from previous forum

Major New York City Institutional Trading Firm/Broker Dealer seeks a
Product & Network Support Representative

This position provides product and network production support for their Institutional Members. Will be using FIX protocols.

Responsibilities include:

  • Providing day-to-day application support to their Members. You will answer usage questions, monitor for errors, provide upgrades, troubleshoot potential system defects and investigate improper usage on the Firm’s network.

  • Utilizing a proprietary network and application-monitoring tool to monitor usage and provide proactive diagnosis of issues

  • Liaising with Product Management and Implementation groups to ensure resolution of customer issues and to communicate customer requests and suggestions

  • Creating and monitoring issues in an internal incident tracking system to identify problem trends. You will implement programs to resolve (e.g. more training, better documentation) these problems.

  • Assisting with product testing

Qualifications

· 2+ years of customer, trading desk or internal desktop support experience
· Experience in Win2K and UNIX environment
· Knowledge of relational databases such as Oracle or Sybase
· Experience with database query tools a plus
· Experience in the financial services industry (trading desk preferred a plus
· Knowledge of internet and publish/subscribe concepts a plus

The people calling are typically Traders and Technical customers calling (they often function as the technical support for their clients who don’t have a large IT staff). This group will also handle calls from the Firm’s Sales people.

Contact: jill@silversearchinc.com