Role: ION Platform Specialist
Location:8 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London
Fixed Income Department:
Part of HTS Global Banking and Markets, the FI etrading team has a proven track record of delivering critical front office e-trading solution and pricing. The team covers the main aspects of an e-trading solution (ie: pricing, market data, market connectivity, order management). A successful candidate will be working with a global team, that is spread over Paris, NY, and London, to build a multi-tier, high availability system that covers a large range of products; i.e.: government bonds EUR/GBP/USD, repos and IRS.
Project:
Part of Digital Growth Program for Fixed E trading, the candidate will be part of Majors Projects within the E-trading space to enhance HSBC global trading platform to supports new functionalities and next generation functionalities.
Responsible For:
- Implement business changes, upgrades to the ION Marketview platform including advanced bond pricing
- Continuous optimisation of ION topology including tuning to maintain a high performance platform
- Hands on configuration, integration and testing of ION Marketview components
- Create, update documentation and provide demos to the traders, business managers and COOs
- Coordinate and organise changes with external vendors, markets, ECNs and infrastructure teams
- Ability to run projects end to end without supervision
ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE (in order of importance)
- Good business knowledge on Rates and Credit products and the markets they are traded on and experience of the full product/trade life cycle
- Proven hands on experience of ION Marketview platform. Detailed knowledge of MMI.NET (master/slave, multi process, XAML RFQ, RFQ Designer), D2C and D2D connectivity gateways, TOMS, PXE, Curvebuilder, Refdata, VMO, VMQ, Trade Server, STP Server, Snapshot Manager
- Proficiency in platform automation tools such as ION DPLAYER/Shell or Auto Confx and keen interest in automation
- Performance and RTD monitoring using ION Perfmeter
- Good understanding of ION routing infrastructure, connections and protocols and experience on platform re-engineering, tuning and failover setup
- Considerable experience in Topology optimisation, Router tuning and platform resiliency
- Solid Linux experience including shell and python scripting (or PERL)
- Knowledge and experience on using source controls systems, build tools (maven or gradle) automated way of building and deployment of ION Platform components
- Strong troubleshooting skills in a complex electronic trading environment such as static data, pricing, RFQ life cycle, trade capture etc
- Automate, build productivity improvement tools to industrialise development on highly advanced in-house eTrading platform
- Experience of running ION platforms in COLO
IDEAL EXPERIENCE
The candidate has been part of E-trading/Pricing team or Algo Team for a major Trading House
strong knowledge with ION environment
ESSENTIAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES
- ION Marketview platform experience to an expert level
- Strong communication skills both verbal and written. Ability to effectively interact with business stakeholders.
- Experience working in DevOps model
- Solid experience & Understanding of trading activities and market data feeds.
- Ability to multitask several ongoing issues. This involves the ability to assess priority and make appropriate decisions quickly and effectively.
- Effective interpersonal skills and relationship-building skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with keen attention to detail.
- Self-motivated and directed, with the ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.