Trade Support Engineer

Trade Support Engineer

Looking for a Lead Trading System Engineer to help expand technical operations. The successful candidate will work very closely with traders and business team, while leading a small team of Trade Support Engineers. This position will be responsible for the configuration management, support and assurance of proprietary trading applications in multiple production silos. This position is expected to manage and coordinate with development, infrastructure and external vendor teams to provide superior performance and availability to each production application.

Responsibilities:

-Be responsible for configuration management of multiple production silos, covering multiple asset classes.

-Be responsible for the uptime, capacity, performance among other aspects of day-to-day operations of trading systems.

-Work with development team in regression testing functionality, stress testing application servers for capacity and performance.

-Contribute to the quality of the trading service lines, by participating in product development, starting with the inception stage.

-Work on tactical, tools development for the traders and business team.

-Manage critical and direct communication line with Traders, Business managers and Development Leads on all aspects of projects.

-Escalate hot issues pro-actively and ensure all stakeholders are kept abreast of issues through resolution.

-Creating extensive documentation and procedures.

Mandatory Qualifications:

-6-8 years of solid experience in UNIX/Linux, LAMP, Networking, Perl, Python, Sybase SQL, Shell Scripting.

-Minimum of 5 years of experience managing production & support on key financial markets systems.

-A bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

-Prior experience supporting traders, trading desks is a must.

-Proven experience of application support and administration.

-Solid knowledge of Trading Systems Applications including OMS and FIX engines.

-Proven problem solving experience, turning around with solutions in a demanding timeline.

-Solid communication and interpersonal skills applicable to a dynamic trading environment.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

-Experience with software analysis, leading to bug-fixing, development, code enhancement is desirable.

-Experience of C++ is desirable.

-Experience with testing methodologies and test tools desirable.

Jobs, Chicago, Trade Support Engineer, Unix, Linux, Perl, Python, Scripting, Sybase