Monday, March 19, 2007

FIX Connectivity Support Engineer in new york, NY

Monday, March 19, 2007
Candidate will be working in the firm's global client connectivity development and support team to support equity, futures, options, and FX trading. Daily responsibilities:

. Firm wide client connectivity and order routing system support and configuration. Perform production problem investigation using the technical and analytical expertise and knowledge of the system to resolve problem effectively.
. client facing FIX connectivity certification at the session and application level
. system configuration for new connectivity client on boarding
. Translation of the client's business requirement to the appropriate configuration parameters
. business status reports
. internal application testing and trouble shooting
. Installation and configuration of the FIX applications and end to end testing functionalities and integration test.
. Performance tuning and regression testing of new software.
. Manage issues, bugs, and enhancement requests for Global Client Connectivity team.

Requirements:

. Good communication skills / task management skills
. Assertive self-starter with the ability to work independently and within a team.
. Familiarity with the full software development life cycle within the context of process and procedures as they pertain to test and industry standards.
. Strong analytical skills
. The ability to multi-task in an Investment bank environment.
. TCP/IP networking knowledge
. Prefer experience in JVM tuning and garbage collection.
. Prefer developer level knowledge on Java

Qualifications:

. College degree in Computer Science, Engineering or other technical major
. 3 to 5 years of Financial Industry experience with client/exchange connectivity systems and/or trading systems for Equity, derivative or FX instruments.
. Strong working knowledge of the FIX protocol and its application.
. Strong knowledge of UNIX and LINUX
. Practical shell scripting experience with a working knowledge of Perl .


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