Fidessa Application Support Engineer/Analyst

Overview

Hybrid
$70 - $100
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 6 Month(s)
No Travel Required

Skills

Business Analyst
Application Support
Fidessa
Options
Trading

Job Details

Fidessa Application Support Engineer/Analyst, Local Candidates only

Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)

Duration: 6 months +

Core Skill: Looking for someone who knows Fidessa Enterprise support/BA with strong US Options background. Would be sitting directly with a trading desk helping them get up to speed on the product and if it worked out well and they had strong US Options.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for the Fidessa application used by traders, sales and middle office on the trading floor.
  • Responsibility includes software releases, configuration, monitoring and support of all production system components and infrastructure.
  • Support, develop and maintain system scripts
  • Ensure system availability, performance, capacity, and monitoring through proper response to incidents, events and problems.
  • Troubleshoot technical or functional issues in a complex financial environment to provide timely resolution, with various applications and platforms that are global.
  • Partner with global development and application support teams in New York, Montreal, Paris, Bucharest, Bangalore and Hong Kong. Additionally, collaboration and support with Production support in Bernstein Institutional Services (BIS)
  • Position being on the main trading floor, extensive interaction is expected with traders, sales, developers and quants.
  • Gaining in-depth exposure to both the business and technology aspects of equity derivatives business.
  • Bring a passion to stay on top of DevOps trends, experiment with and learn new CD technologies.
  • Help or mentor other members of the team, preach and spread DevOps as religion in the firm.
  • Develop applications and scripts to automate manual operational tasks as well as build custom real-time monitoring tools and reports.

Experience Needed:

  • 5+ years experience in financial services industry
  • Broad understanding of multiple asset classes, including equities, options and synthetic swaps.
  • Ability to prioritize tasks and problems in a dynamic environment
  • Fundamental understanding of Ion s Fidessa application
  • Undergraduate or Graduate degree in Computer Science or related concentration.

Technical Skills:

  • Comfortable working on UNIX / Linux (Sysadmin, Shell Scripting, etc.) and Windows environments.
  • Experience working with relational databases, excellent SQL skills.
  • Understanding of Python and experience trouble-shooting issues

 

 

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