Thursday, January 28, 2010

FIX Message and Protocol Support in New York, NY

Thursday, January 28, 2010
Ajilon Consulting is a global provider of IT solutions with 40 years of experience and offices throughout North America, Europe, and Australia. We support clients' immediate and long-term business needs by delivering a wide array of consultative IT services and by providing contingent consultants on an individual or group staffing basis. Our contingent consultants possess IT skills that supplement internal client resources during workload peaks, fill critical areas of expertise, and staff mission critical projects.
With our parent company Adecco, we have a wide presence in North America and globally with more than 6,600 offices in 70 countries worldwide. Together we employ more than 700,000 associates on-assignment supporting over 150,000 clients.


You must be able to join Ajilon Consulting on a W2 basis, no corp to corp or H1 for this opportunity
Experience: Background and Responsibilities:
The candidate will be responsible for Electronic Trading Services external client on-boarding including FIX client/front end and vendor certification with ML Futures trading systems.
The candidate will work closely with front office production support teams in New York, London and Tokyo. The candidate will interface with the Electronic Platform Integration team for client on-boarding and with internal IT teams on scheduling and conducting client and vendor testing. Needs to be hands-on and can perform testing on his/her own.

Role Specific Responsibilities:
The candidate will be responsible for client on-boarding and certification in the US region and will also need to coordinate activities with the Client Take On, Production Support and EPI teams in the other regions.

Experience Required:
. Comprehensive experience in client and business on-boarding
. In depth knowledge in Equity and Futures products
. Experienced in FIX message and protocol support
. Experienced in UNIX environment a plus - know how to do editing
. Experience with a scripting language
. Previous experience in working with XML based configuration
. Previous experience with testing tools such as Certifix/Verifix
. Basic SQL skills (not necessary but will be a plus)

Personal Attributes Required:
. Excellent communication skills
. Willingness to undertake business travel on occasion related to role

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