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Offre d'emploi 956

eTrading Application Production Engineer

Permanent contract

A propos de Talan

For more than 15 years, Talan has been advising companies and administrations, supporting them and implementing their transformation projects in France and abroad. With a presence on four continents, the group anticipates revenue of €350 million in 2020, for a headcount of more than 3,500 consultants.

In the UK, Talan count 230 employees on several site, the main being: London, Edinburgh and Chester, Leeds.

This role is a position within the Rates and Credit eTrading Application Production team in London which is part of the APS eSolutions group (Application Production & Support - eSolutions). This a global team providing services to the global Rates and Credit businesses within BNP Paribas CIB Global Markets trading room.
The team provides technical support for all back-end components running on Rates and Credit eTrading environments (more than 800 servers – Windows or Linux).
The team also manages connectivity to many electronic trading venues (CME, EUREX, ICE, MTS, Brokertec, eSpeed, Tradition, Bloomberg, Tradeweb, MarketAxess, LSE, XETRA,…)
Production systems are mainly installed in London, New York, Tokyo and Singapore and a lot of them live 24/5.
Follow-the-sun support model is used involving teams in London, New York, Montreal, Singapore and Mumbai.
Systems are complex so as part of support activities the range of technical skills involved is wide.
All team members are expected to quickly develop, or already have, a good understanding of eTrading systems (not necessarily Rates and Credit asset classes).
The team is responsible for supporting globally the ION platform, in-house pricing applications, algorithmic trading components, STP,… for Rates and Credit businesses.
Team members have applications and technologies allocated to them and they are expected to take ownership and be, or quickly become experts in these areas.
Out of hours work is regularly required, particularly at weekends on a rota basis. On-call support is also provided by the team.
Responsibilities:
 Day-to-day management of production : monitoring, capacity management, problem resolution activities, change management.
 Responsible for efficient resolution of issues to minimize impact to clients and internal users including liaising with end users, team members, management, vendors, other internal IT teams...
 Assist in the development, design and implementation of technical support systems.
 Perform activities related to implementation and rollout for upgrades of existing services.
 Work closely with development teams, business analysts, architects, all infrastructure teams to design and setup new systems, improve existing platforms (resilience, high availability, performance, low-latency...).
 Coordinate and organise changes with external vendors, markets, ECNs.
 Plan, schedule, implement and document the change activities.
 Improve team documentation, keep it up-to-date and share knowledge with global team
Candidate Profile:
 Strong all-around IT background and proven experience in electronic trading markets on similar environments.
 Strong understanding of Linux (Redhat) operating systems to be able to tune operating systems platforms for optimum performance.

Essential skills :
 Scripting (Python, Shell, SQL....) and development skills for administration, monitoring and support tools.
 Good network and firewall infrastructure understanding.
 Good understanding of multicast messaging (ideally in a Tibco Rendezvous environment).
 Project management skills to deliver medium scale projects.
 Ideally good knowledge and experience on ION technology
Personal Attributes :
 Team player.
 Self motivated.
 Strong analytical skills, follow-up capability and problem solving ability.
 Detail-oriented and organized.
 Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
 Capable of prioritizing tasks and multi-tasking projects.
 Flexible and adaptable to new environments. Quickly learn new systems/products.

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