Associate

Job Description (Posting).

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in technology preferably on the buy-side, sell-side, or trading vendor.

• In depth knowledge of Fixed Income markets and its trading technologies for both dealers and institutional clients.

• FIX Protocol certification/connectivity experience a must.

• Ability to produce a concise, functional FIX specifications from start to finish that can be used as well as received by clients, partners, and vendors.

• Ability to lead technical discussions with clients, technical staff and vendors.

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and technical writing.

• Ability to document certifications and provide production with training.

• Gather and communicate client requirements to other team members in other regional offices.

• Experience with SQL on any DBMS - MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and Sybase database environments required.

• Knowledge of Fixed Income buy-side and sell side order management and trading systems.

• Demonstrated administration and operation in Linux and Windows.

• Functional knowledge of networking, TLS encryption, proxies, firewalls and stunnel.

Basic programming or scripting language (Perl/Python) preferred

Detailed Responsibilities

• Perform FIX API based certifications with various third-party vendors, Liquidnet clients and partners.

• Work with OMS Vendors to define workflows and specifications for FIX integrations.

• Support Liquidnet QA/UAT environments including, backend processes, FIX connections and vendor/partner OMS/EMS components.

• Build, maintain, and test certification environments.

• Help train members and Liquidnet teams on new product features.

• Work with team to test new functionality and creative solutions to existing issues.

• Escalate problems as needed to local or global Production Support teams and Development.

• Work with technology teams on enhancements to problematic workflows.

• Work with OMS Vendors to define specifications for FIX or other proprietary integrations.

• Support Liquidnet proprietary interfaces for various OMS vendors.

• Manage client application upgrades and new functionality deployments.

• Work closely with the sales team to support our core customer base.

• Build, maintain, and test demo environments.

• Manage new feature validation across the region - sales team / customer focused.

• Help train members and Liquidnet teams on new product features.

• Provide support for SQL and FIX Technologies for in-house applications and client OMS integrations.