Global Advisory & Markets, FICC SMM Production Engineer, AnalystAssoc, Sydney

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Fixed Income Currency and Commodities (FICC) Engineering plays a key role in the firms ability to provide liquidity and execution services for institutional clients around the world two important revenue drivers for the FICC Engineering we use both open-source industry standard and internal proprietary technologies to build cutting edge platforms for pricing execution and control over each of these millions of transactions.

Who We Look For

The FICC Systematic Market Making (SMM) business consolidates and expands the firms electronic market making and algorithmic trade execution. As part of the SMM Engineering team SMM Production Engineering partners with SMM Trading to develop and support the pricing and execution services for the firm and its clients. The team is primarily focused on site reliability engineering including driving automation improving real-time monitoring developing metrics to track performance and managing the release and deployment lifecycle. Team members help support the day-to-day operations of the trading desk and the electronic trading systems; the team is expected to interact closely with Trading & Sales business users.

Candidates must have the technical and analytical skills required to triage and resolve complex production issues and operate well in a fast-paced high-pressure environment. A propensity to automate manual tasks appreciation for large-scale distributed computing systems and a willingness to develop using a wide range of languages and frameworks will be necessary to succeed in the role. As part of a global support team you will provide operational and technical assistance for SMM applications and infrastructure both for external clients and internal business addition you will oversee every component of the production system to identify and resolve production problems as well as assess risk of systems changes.

Job Summary

• Technical and operational risk management of a fast-paced multi-asset electronic trading business
• Software development focused on creating sustainable systems and services that meet uptime and performance requirements through automation
• Finding opportunities for efficiency and cost savings in support process and physical environment
• Partnering with software and infrastructure owners to solve hardware/network issues
• Incident and crisis management
• Participation in system design consulting platform management and capacity planning
• Significant business interaction across FICC front office

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year of relevant professional experience for Analyst or 3 years for Associate
• Proficiency in one of the following: Python C C Java
• Aptitude for algorithms data structures and software design
• Experience with Linux operating system internals and/or networking concepts
• Strong analytical skills with an ability to quickly identify scope and impact of issues during high-pressure situations
• Solid communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks effectively

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems design maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with debugging and optimizing code as well as automation.
• Knowledge of financial markets
• FIX protocol knowledge

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