Senior ION Consultant

• Hybrid work
• B2B - long term engagement

• Sector

  : Investment Bank

Overview

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on configuration, integration, and testing of ION MarketView eTrading components
• Platform re-engineering to provide a stable and maintainable platform for the business
• Direct engagement with business stakeholders in Trading, Sales, and COO teams.
• Implement changes and upgrades to the ION MarketView pricing and eTrading platform.
• Ability to provide L2 Production support
• Coordinate and organise changes with external vendors, markets, ECNs and infrastructure teams
• ION topology tuning to create and maintain a high-performance platform
• Writing documentation, user guides, regular demos
• Performing user verification testing with various groups during project go-live
• Ability to run projects end to end without monitoring

Ideal Candidates

• 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 perimeter 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