Front Office Support Analyst

Job Description

A well known quantitative trading firm currently seeking a Support Analyst to join Front Office Support team in Hong Kong.

Your Daily Responsibilities will include:

• Perform continuous real-time monitoring of production systems
• Act as a link between developers, traders and external brokers/exchanges, ensuring appropriate information flow when investigating problems relating to the production environment.
• Maintain technical/user documentation/confluence for new/existing systems.
• Gain a thorough understanding of the entire company's trading, Order Management Systems (OMS), market data, static data and settlement/clearing systems and workflows.
• Identify opportunities for improving reliability through the use of technology.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Preferably degree qualified professional with a major in Computer Science, or related technical discipline.
• Must have experience in the Financial Industry particularly around trading, market data, OMS, FIX protocol and other related systems - minimum two years.
• Preferably have an understanding of financial market, instruments, and market data across equities and derivatives.
• Must have the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with a range of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Must be able to work under pressure with changing priorities in a trading room environment.

Desirable Skills

• Experience supporting a trading room environment and working with closely with traders.
• Experience working with market data.
• Experience working on the Linux or Windows operating systems
• Experience with SQL.
• Technical skills in bash / PowerShell scripting, python, VBA, C# and/or other programming languages.
• A working knowledge of messaging middleware.