FIX Onboarding Engineer

MUST be local to New York City.

Major Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting connectivity requirements for the Equities Trading desk.
• Setting up connectivity & onboarding clients for Equity Trading platform using FIX and other similar protocols;
• Performing electronic trading connectivity testing & certifications.
• Monitoring electronic trading systems and serverside software to ensure systems are working correctly.
• Identifying troubleshooting and responding to emergency situations impacting live trading.
• Working with the traders to understand & implement client connectivity requirements.
• Develop test plans for enhancements & new modules of vendor provided software. Work with users to certify enhancements.
• Escalating problems proactively and ensure all stakeholders are kept aware of issues and their development.
• Working with the vendor testing & deploying enhancements to the Equities trading systems.
• Creating and maintaining a knowledge base support scripts documentation and procedures.
• Supporting the applications that are used on trading desks.

Required Qualifications:

• 2 years IT support experience in the Equities electronic trading environment.
• 2 years of experience in FIX client connectivity and onboarding clients.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a strong customer service orientation.
• Must be comfortable using standard UNIX utilities to debug trace and problemsolve.
• Very strong troubleshooting debugging and analysis skills.
• Knowledge of FIX messaging protocol and be able to conduct client testing.
• Experience with and understanding of databases.
• VB/Excel/Perl/Bash and/or other scripting experience.
• Understanding of trade and market data feeds.
• Experience working on a trading floor supporting mission critical applications
• Strong educational background with BS / MS in Computer Science Engineering or related area.

Other Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Java ability to read code and make modifications is a plus.