Job Title:  ETrading Support

Location: Onsite in New York City 10019 with potential for hybrid

Mode- W2  contract

Duration: 12+Months Contract

Note: Interview: video and in-person interview

Job Summary: This is a Front Office trading or Pre Trade application support role. The more product knowledge with  fixed income, Interest rate derivatives, FX, the better. Client prefers pre trade support but if you have a post trade support they might consider as well.

Summary: To analyze, develop, implement, and support systems related to IRD IT and Securitization– including interfaces to other systems, the systems’ users and all aspects related to the systems’ operation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide application support and knowledge for assigned systems and all projects related to these systems.
• This includes after-office support for nightly batch processes as well as miscellaneous processes or actions that can be done during non-business hours
• Provide functional and technical solutions for user or management requests.
• Design and development of effective and efficient systems applied to specific user problems and activities.
• Conduct feasibility studies, systems design and make recommendations on the appropriate action to be taken.
• Support Front office, back office, middle office and risk users during their daily activity
• Provide input to general architecture including hardware, network, tools, software, etc
• Provide support for BCP activities.
• Analyze and coordinate with development IT team based in Paris.
• Gather new requirement
• Follow up on special requests from management.
• Develop good relations with the business (FO, MO/Risk, BO), follow relationship with third parties, manage / assist members

Skills & Knowledge Requirements:

• -Finastra Summit, ION, and/or Orchestrade Pre-trade application support knowledge
• -Unix Shell scripting and knowledge of UNIX tools such as awk, sed
• -SQL -Sybase DBMS and Stored Procedures
• -Knowledge of Fixed Income and any additional FX products like FX, CDs, CPs, Bonds, Repo, Futures, Interest Rate Swaps, FX Spot, FX Forwards, FX Swaps, Derivatives the better
• -Microsoft Excel skills -Knowledge of financial markets -Perl programming -Python -Visual Basic for Applications,Knowledge of the electronic markets