A propos de Talan
Are you passionate about digital transformations, data, IoT or AI and are you looking to join a dynamic and ambitious team?
Don’t hesitate and join Talan!
For the last 20 years, Talan has advised Companies in the Finance and Luxury Goods Industries. Talan has helped its clients transform their businesses and deploy innovative projects globally. Talan is a global company present on five continents.
Today, Talan has more than 4,000 consultants and aims to exceed $1B in revenue by 2024.
Talan leverages innovation and operates in areas related to technological changes such as Big Data, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence.
We rely on both technological leverage and the strength of our DNA based on collective intelligence, agility, and a taste for entrepreneurship.
We’re looking for a market access application Support/DevOps analyst for one of our clients, a major Hedge Fund specialized in high frequency trading.
Responsibilities
Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Operate, administer and extend a 500 live servers platform, built with state-of-the-art and low latency technologies, connected to more than 40 Trading Venues, and processing from 10 to 30 million orders per day and a vast amount of financial information in real time
- Provide timely resolution of highly technical and specific user issues and requests
- Monitor performances, fine-tune processes and manage capacity planning to be consistent with the low latency expectation
- Manage high performing in-house order routing, feed handlers, pre-trade checks and trade reporting services
- Provide support to traders operating various strategies on a wide range of assets
- Work closely with Exchanges and Trading Venues to manage implementation of new services
- Collaborate with worldwide IT departments Implement new Market Access solutions for business initiatives
Technical Skill Set
- Proficiency with Unix/Linux system administration including troubleshooting techniques
- Scripting languages (notion in Python is a requirement, Shell, Perl, Korn are a plus)
- Experience with FIX protocol
- Basic knowledge in networking (TCP/IP, routing, multicast)
- Windows: maintain jobs, check network or shared drives, analyze memory
- Database: MySQL
Education and Experience
- 3 to 8 years’ experience in a Front office and support environment
- Be passionate, determined, and have intellectual curiosity
- Capacity to solve problems in a high-pressure environment, prioritize critical tasks and learn on the fly
- Results oriented, highly flexible, team player
- Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Ability and desire to work collaboratively
- Have the flexibility to experiment with novel solutions and the determination to test assumptions and conventional methods
- Have a thorough understanding of what client service is and a strong commitment to ensure they provide solid client service
Company’s Benefits
Talan’s offices are located in Union Square, right in the center of Manhattan. Our company benefits include:
- Competitive salary
- 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
- 3 weeks of paid vacation per year at hire and up to 5 weeks according to seniority (annual untaken vacation days are cashed out)
- 8 paid holidays
- 5 sick and 2 personal days
- Company health, dental and vision insurance plans
- Other benefits such as, commuter/transit benefits, Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and other company perks