ION Application Support Consultant || Onsite in New York City

[Sachin Sharma]

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ION Application Support

12+ Months Contract

Onsite in New York City 10019 with potential for hybrid

 Interview: video and in-person interview

 

GC/USC only

 

Summary: To support electronic trading systems related to Fixed Income, Derivatives, FX, or Equities– including interfaces to other systems, the systems’ users and all aspects related to the systems’ operation. Past ION trading platform experience required.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide application support and knowledge for assigned systems and all projects related to these systems.
• This includes after-office support for nightly batch processes as well as miscellaneous processes or actions that can be done during non-business hours
• Provide functional and technical solutions for user or management requests.
• Design and development of effective and efficient systems applied to specific user problems and activities.
• Conduct feasibility studies, systems design and make recommendations on the appropriate action to be taken.
• Support Front office, back office, middle office and risk users during their daily activity
• Provide input to general architecture including hardware, network, tools, software, etc
• Provide support for BCP activities.
• Analyze and coordinate with development IT team based in Paris.
• Gather new requirement
• Follow up on special requests from management.
• Develop good relations with the business (FO, MO/Risk, BO), follow relationship with third parties, manage / assist members

 

Skills & Knowledge Requirements:

• Provide Day to day technical and functional support of the In house FIX Trading Gateways and ION Agency trading and processing applications to internal users of the investment banks (Traders, QA, technical teams, etc.)
• Hands on experience with ION MMI,ECN, and Fix Protocol, Strong Treasury and Bonds support experience
• Unix Shell scripting and knowledge of UNIX tools such as awk, sed
• SQL -Sybase DBMS and Stored Procedures
• Knowledge of Fixed Income / FX products like CDs, CPs, Bonds, Repo, Futures, Interest Rate Swaps, FX Spot, FX Forwards, FX Swaps, and/or Derivatives
• Microsoft Excel skills -Knowledge of financial markets
• Perl programming -Python -Visual Basic for Applications
• Knowledge of the electronic markets

 

Qualifications/Education Required: 6-year undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Finance