Trading Application Support

Company Description

For more than 20 years, Talan has been advising companies and administrations, supporting them and implementing their transformation projects in the UK and abroad. With a presence on four continents and a headcount of 5000 consultants, our ambition is to reach a billion turnover by the end of 2025.

In the UK, Talan counts 500 employees on several sites, the main being: London, Edinburgh, Chester, and Leeds.

Job Description

This role consists of managing the support of applications for the following desks:

• Index flow
• Emerging markets
• Commodities
• Equity financing
• Flow sales

Duties will include the setting of proprietary software for booking, pricing, and trading (manual and automated, market interface):

• Real-time settings
• Market data parameters
• Market access performance tuning
• Computation setup

Duties will also include electronic executions matching, new releases deployment, bug reporting, and new features or improvements requests to development teams.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Programming skills for scripting or small development (Python/PHP/Visual Basic/Unix Shell Scripts/C#/Java).
• Relational database knowledge.
• Must be able to thrive in a demanding front-office environment.
• Highly motivated team player but also capable of working independently.

Nice to have:

• Strong knowledge of financial markets, derivative products (equities and commodities).
• Electronic trading support experience.
• Knowledge of options and futures operations/clearing.
• Knowledge of Citrix servers’ management.

Additional Information: Hybrid working from Central London.