Senior ION Consultant

Project Description:

This role is an exciting opportunity for a hands-on ION MarketView Platform Specialist. ION is a key component of our eTrading platform, providing pricing and trading integration for mainly D2C and to a lesser extent D2D markets, for the Rates and Credit businesses. This role is an exciting opportunity to be part a global eTrading development team that is distributed over London, Bangalore, and Singapore.

The team are mainly focused on project work but also provide L2 support on a rota basis.

We have a huge book of work including enhancements requested by the business as well as performance improvements and mandatory & evergreen upgrades.

Skills required:

• Minimum 5+ years of experience

• Strong hands-on experience of ION MarketView. Detailed knowledge of MMI .NET, D2C & D2D Connectivity Gateways, TOMS, PXE, REFDATA, VMO, VMQ, Run List Manager

• Strong Fixed Income eTrading business experience

• Experience of ION perfmeter and RTD monitoring and tuning

• Experience of platform re-engineering, tuning and ION failover setup.

• Knowledge of Fixed Income trading environment in Rates and/or Credit businesses

• Strong communication skills both verbal and written. Ability to effectively interact with business stakeholders

• Excellent troubleshooting skills in a complex trading environment including pricing and trade capture issues

• Strong Linux experience, including shell scripting and python scripting

• Experience of using source control systems, in particular GIT and maven build & packaging

• Constantly challenging and seeking ways to improve platform consistency and maintainability