Position Description

This role is part of the Global FIX connectivity team responsible for handling FIX connectivity requests from clients, vendors, brokers and exchanges

Key Areas of Responsibilities

• Daily trading operations support for various trading desks of High Touch & Low Touch cash Equities, SWAP desk and F&O desk. 

• FIX testing & certifications of FIX clients, FIX vendors, FIX brokers, internal & external dark & lit pools & exchanges.

• Work with infra teams to setup connectivity between external parties with the firm and able to maintain FIX network relationship. 

• Lead Support Analyst will also be working in shifts to support Asia / US and Europe markets.

• Lead Support analyst will be working in close with FIX team in CLSA Pune, US and Australia

• Perform other trade support functions when needed
   

Requirements

• Degree holder in Computer Science or related discipline(s)

• Minimum 3 years proficiency in FIX technology with good experience in FIX certification and FIX client on-boarding, preferably in Broker / Dealer environment

• Proven experience in Cameron FIX or Appia or other FIX engines

• Excellent knowledge of Cash Equity business, SWAP, Future & Options business in a DMA/DSA, Agency and Program FIX environment

• Good understanding of Trade Flow systems needed for DMA/DSA trade booking especially in ID markets like CONNECT, Korea, Taiwan and India

• Good knowledge of exchange rules of Asian markets

• 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

• Excellent communications skills and the ability to interact with Vendors and Traders
  
  Technology skills:

• Knowledge in FIX protocol (FIX versions 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 etc), and automated tools

• Knowledge in ORACLE (user level)

• Knowledge in Unix and Shell scripting

• Programming knowledge of Java, Python will be value addition

• Awareness of SRE concepts is an added advantage

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