E-business Derivatives Support

**E-Business Derivatives Technical Support**
**Location: London**
**Type: Contract (6 Months)**

E-Business Derivatives Support required to support a global investment banking client to provide functional and technical support. In this role you will be the main contact in IT on the trading floor, ensuring the trading platform stability, investigating functional and technical issues and driving platform and functionalities enhancements.

**Responsibilities**:

- Technical and functional support of the Derivatives execution platform
- Day-to-day management of production: monitoring, capacity management, incident management, problem resolution activities, change management.
- Day-to-day support of derivative algo trading platform, OMS/EMS, FIX messaging, client connectivity
- Responsible for efficient resolution of issues to minimize impact to clients and internal users including liaising with end users, team members, management, vendors, other internal IT teams.
- Perform activities related to implementation and rollout for upgrades of existing services
- Work closely with development teams, business analysts, architects, all infrastructure teams to design and setup new systems and improve existing platforms (resilience, high availability, performance, low-latency, new functionalities)
- Coordinate and organise changes with external vendors
- Plan, schedule, implement and document the change activities
- Improve team documentation, keep it up-to-date and share knowledge with global team.

**Essential skills**:

- Good knowledge of financial markets and electronic trading
- Good knowledge of derivatives products and execution business
- Excellent knowledge of FIX protocol and connectivity
- Excellent Linux knowledge
- Good knowledge of network technologies and protocols
- Basic scripting skills

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

**Location: London**

**Type: Contract (6 Months)**

E-Business Derivatives Support required to support a global investment banking client to provide functional and technical support. In this role you will be the main contact in IT on the trading floor, ensuring the trading platform stability, investigating functional and technical issues and driving platform and functionalities enhancements.

**Responsibilities**:

- Technical and functional support of the Derivatives execution platform
- Day-to-day management of production: monitoring, capacity management, incident management, problem resolution activities, change management.
- Day-to-day support of derivative algo trading platform, OMS/EMS, FIX messaging, client connectivity
- Responsible for efficient resolution of issues to minimize impact to clients and internal users including liaising with end users, team members, management, vendors, other internal IT teams.
- Perform activities related to implementation and rollout for upgrades of existing services
- Work closely with development teams, business analysts, architects, all infrastructure teams to design and setup new systems and improve existing platforms (resilience, high availability, performance, low-latency, new functionalities)
- Coordinate and organise changes with external vendors
- Plan, schedule, implement and document the change activities
- Improve team documentation, keep it up-to-date and share knowledge with global team.

**Essential skills**:

- Good knowledge of financial markets and electronic trading
- Good knowledge of derivatives products and execution business
- Excellent knowledge of FIX protocol and connectivity
- Excellent Linux knowledge
- Good knowledge of network technologies and protocols
- Basic scripting skills

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.