What are the responsibilities and job description for the FIX Onboarding and Production Support Specialist position at Magma IT Technologies?
Job Details
Role: FIX Onboarding and Production Support Specialist
Location: New York City, NY (Onsite)
Duration: Long term
Job Description:
Seeking a hands-on FIX Onboarding and/or Production Support candidate who will support Equity products including high touch and low touch workflows. Our team supports the front office, middle office and back office processes but our primary focus is support the FIX gateway and FIX client onboarding. Familiarity with pre and post trade matching solutions is a plus.
The ideal candidate will bring their experiences, best practices, and a collaborative attitude to help drive initiatives. To be successful, one must be able to effectively communicate on a business (traders) and technical level (OMS trade support and middle office).
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical and development support to internal and external clients and software vendors utilizing FIX (4.2/4.4) for e-trading, prices and STP in various financial products.
- Work with clients as well as Trading Desk to understand their FIX onboarding requirements and configure FIX settings to meet their needs.
- Build solutions to existing platforms based on client and business feedback.
- Work with external software vendors that have integrated with our systems, or vice versa to ensure FIX onboarding, Testing and Production support are in line with the Business objectives.
- Coordinate the release of new applications and FIX configurations and enhancements with external clients
- Identify and manage any integration issues & Provide 3rd level of support to production issues relating to FIX and Application Support Documenting procedures and training internal support teams
- Work collaboratively with multiple agile teams to help deliver end-to-end products and features, seeing them through from conception to delivery Develop and maintain solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring Continuously evaluate existing systems with industry standards, and make recommendations for improvement Sustain and improve the process of knowledge sharing throughout the OMS trade support team.
Skills:
- Ability to read and understand scripting/programming languages such as Bash, Python, Java
- Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Understanding of system administration in Linux environments
- Strong knowledge of configuration management tools, communication, and documentation skills.
- Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills
- Strong Problem solving and troubleshooting skills. Attention to details and ability to maintain accurate records .
- Ability to work independently and as part of team
Education:
- Min 5 years experience working with FIX protocols with deep understanding of FIX messages and order routing.
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or related field (or 10 years experience)
