Trading Application Support Engineer

Responsibilities

• Trading Application Support – Level 1+ support of Fixed Income, Commodities and FX Trading System users.
• Build up an understanding of various trading, trade processing, and risk reporting systems, including Front-end trading, Trade Capture, Risk and Pnl, Trade Repository and Prime Brokerage clearing.
• Troubleshoot trade related issues and train users on various platforms.
• Fixed Income Algo Support – support Millennium’s proprietary platform for electronic and algo trading.
• Testing, capturing requirements, and marketing & implementing the algos with our PM teams.
• Production Monitoring Support – monitoring and support for intra-day and EOD jobs, platform performance, enhance and support of trade processing platform.

Qualifications/Skills

• 3 - 5 years front office trading support experience preferred
• Knowledge and understanding of fixed income products (Rates, Credit, Futures, Derivatives) Commodities and FX
• Good team player – one who is able to prioritize competing demands in a fast moving, high pressure, environment.
• Possesses a strong sense of urgency.
• Excellent written & oral communication skills
• Detail oriented, demonstrates thoroughness and strong ownership of work.
• Quick thinker & problem solver, able to think on their feet and make informed decisions to resolve/mitigate issues.
• Experience with 3rd party trading systems (Bloomberg FIT/ALLQ/FXGO/CDX/IRS, Brokertec, Tradeweb, MarketAxess, Trading Technologies (TT), WebICE, CME Direct, etc.) is a plus
• Experience with Bloomberg and/or Reuters is a plus
• Interest in financial markets & news a plus
• Unix shell experience a plus