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Front Office IT Support Engineer
MARGO
London
On-site
GBP 40,000 - 80,000
Full time
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Job summary
An established industry player is looking for a Front Office IT Support Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced front-office environment, providing essential IT support for financial products such as Forex, equities, and derivatives. With a focus on real-time settings and market access performance tuning, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring optimal operations. The company promotes a culture of growth through tailored training and development prospects, allowing you to advance your career in IT consultancy. If you're a motivated team player with a passion for finance and technology, this is the perfect opportunity for you.
Qualifications
- Strong programming skills in Perl, PHP, or Visual Basic for scripting.
- Proficiency in relational databases and both Linux and Windows environments.
Responsibilities
- Manage real-time settings and market data parameters.
- Assist in incident management and deployment of new features.
Skills
Job description
Margo is a Tech Native consultancy covering high value-added IT expertise for the market finance industry. We believe that the smart alliance between complex IT topics and the finance area brings the most challenging topics to our consultants: low latency, multithreading, high data volume…
Joining Margo as an IT consultant is the promise to be part of a human-sized company with an internal monitoring and tailor-made training policy that assures you to develop your skills.
Its offers are organized around 3 main expertise: IT Support, Rapid Application Development, and Software Development.
Margo is seeking a Front Office IT Support Engineer to integrate its teams within a worldwide corporate and investment bank.
- Real-Time settings
- Market data parameters
- Market access performance tuning
- Computation setup
- Incident and change management
- Electronic executions matching
- Deployment of new versions and features
- Bug reporting
- IT projects assistance
- Forex
- Equities and derivatives
- Emerging markets
- Commodities
- Risk and PnL
- Credit and rates
- Exchange-traded funds
- Convertible bonds
- Programming skills for scripting or small development (Perl/ PHP/ Visual Basic/ Unix Shell)
- Relational database knowledge and proficiency in both Linux and Windows environments
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Ability to thrive in a demanding front-office environment
- Highly motivated team player but also capable of working independently
- Knowledge of financial markets
- IT/Trading support experience
- Team leader: manage a team of several people
- Production engineer: more technical, having more exposure to the code side of things
- Rapid Application Developer with more exposure to development aspects
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