Friday, November 15, 2013

[itroundtable] LEAD: Trading Production Support, NYC

I have a full time Trading Production Support position in New York, NY. Please see the description below and let me know what you think.   Salary range is to $110K.

If you are interested in discussing this further, please forward an updated resume and let me know a good time to contact you.  

If you are not interested, maybe you know someone who is.  Feel free to forward my details to anyone you think maybe interested.

Thank you for your time.

 
Best Regards,
Pete Di Staulo


Peter Di Staulo

O: 973-226-4228
C: 862.215.3555
pete@mdmsrecruiting.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/pdistaulo/

Team Overview:
The prime responsibility of a Rates Production Services team member is to manage the 1st and 2nd
line support to the trading and risk systems across the Rates business. The ideal candidate will
have strong technical and business knowledge of the Rates space including the tasks, and
requirements, of running within a fast paced trading environment.

Role / Principal Accountabilities:
Provide trade floor Production Services Support for a wide range of electronic trading platforms and
applications including Bloomberg and ION, in addition to maintaining our inhouse and vendor based
application solutions.  Ability to analyze and support electronic trade information, market data,
price valuation, and risk from various platforms is essential.  Business line coverage includes
Fixed Income bonds, bond spreads and global rates. Desirable skills would also include structured
and credit derivatives. The electronic trading platform architecture consists of multiple external
and internal applications designed to facilitate the successful execution of Rates, Credit,
Structured and Swap trades.

Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in trade floor Production Support.
- Working knowledge of Fixed income Rates products (Credit and Swaps a bonus).
- Minimum 1 year experience with service-based architecture.
- Experience with electronic trading applications have connectivity to external trading applications
  such as Bloomberg, Tradeweb,eSpeed and MarkItWire to send/retrieve information.
- Able to navigate in UNIX and Windows proficently, reading and understanding the UNIX file system.
- A good understanding ITIL practices.
- Able to troubleshoot problems in multiple environments.
- Strong technical and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication skills, ability to multi-task, and work towards tight deadlines. 
- Able to handle a fast paced trading environment.
- Experience of monitoring software and maintaining and improving rulebases.

Preferred Skills
- Fixed income and derivatives product experience
- SQL
- Autosys setup and configuration
- FIX Protocol
- ION Trading Platform
- STP solutions

Additional Information:
The ideal candidate will be a hard working, proactive individual with strong interpersonal and
communication skills who has a desire to drive continuous improvement and the ability to manage
multiple tasks at any given time. The Production Services group cover business hours from 7:00 AM to
7:00 PM it will therefore be necessary for the candidate to work either an early, or late, shift on
a rotational basis. 

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