Senior Support Analyst, FIX connectivity, Information Technology

Key Areas of Responsibilities

• Support Analyst will be part of the Global FIX connectivity team responsible for handling FIX connectivity requests from clients, vendors, brokers and exchanges.
• The duties include daily trading operations desk support for various trading desks of High Touch & Low Touch cash Equities, SWAP desk and F&O desk.
• The duties also include FIX testing & certifications of FIX clients, FIX vendors, FIX brokers, internal & external dark & lit pools & exchanges.
• The person should be able to understand & work with infra teams to setup connectivity between external parties and with the firm and able to maintain FIX network relationship.
• Support analyst will be working closely with regional FIX teams in Hong Kong, Pune, New York, Japan, London and Sydney.

Requirements

• 6 – 8 years experience with 3 minimum of 3 - 5 years proficiency in FIX technology with good experience in FIX certification and FIX client on-boarding
• Proven experience in Cameron FIX or Appia or other FIX engines
• Excellent knowledge of Cash Equity business in a DMA/DSA, Agency and Program FIX environment
• Excellent knowledge of SWAP, Future & Options business in a DMA & DSA FIX environment
• 3-5 years of experience in a Broker / Dealer environment
• Good knowledge of exchange rules of Asian markets (HK/China CONNECT/JP/KR/SG/TW/AU/IN/ID)
• Good understanding of Trade Flow systems needed for DMA/DSA trade booking especially in ID markets like China Connect, Korea, Taiwan and India
• Good understanding of Order Management Systems like Fidessa, Flextrade etc
• Good understanding of Front end systems like Bloomberg, ITG etc
• Good exposure in FIX testing tools like VeriFIX
• Good exposure in FIX monitoring tools like KIBANA, Grafana, Logstash, Elastic search, ITRS, etc
• Good exposure in change & incident management tools like SNOW
• Must be self-starter and be able to work independently
• Willing to undertake other Trade Support functions
• Ready to work in Trading floor (high pressure environment)
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to interact with Vendors and Traders
• FIX development skills (not mandatory but good to have)
• Rollout FIX projects individually
• Knowledge of SRE will be added advantage