Technical Analyst

FlexTrade Systems

The Team-

Technical Analyst

About You-

You are good at both client-facing and technical aspects to provide a high-quality technical relationship between our clients and the Client Services team:

Relationship Management:

• You love to liaise with clients directly to define and understand business and workflow requirements.
• You know how to manage client expectations.
• You act as the primary technical contact to allocated clients for new requirements, support, and project deliverables.

Support:

• You respond to reports of problems via phone and email.
• You are good at troubleshooting and investigating to create appropriate solutions to immediate problems.
• You provide periodic updates about investigations to the clients. Publish RCA notes upon conclusion of the investigation.
• You can collaborate with development & QA teams to get application defects fixed. Apply patch releases into UAT & Prod environments. Communicate release notes to the clients and other relevant parties.
• You are comfortable with morning shifts starting 8 am on a rotational basis.
• You can work occasional bank/public holiday cover and weekend work may be required.

Implementation and design:

• You can formulate the business and workflow requirements into technical solutions.
• You use technical design and development skills to resolve complex problems across many different
• platforms. Build tools and scripts in shell scripts/perl/python/C++ etc. to automate or assist in the maintenance and implementation of the systems.
• You can work alongside developers throughout the firm to design, build, test and deploy custom solutions.
• You know how to on-board client and broker connections to our FIX network.
• You love to implement and test new FX liquidity providers onto the FlexTrade liquidity aggregation engine.
• You work with teams across the firm to continually improve the product and drive future innovation.

Job Requirements

The suitable candidate should have-

• Bachelor's (or higher) degree in Engineering/Technology or equivalent acceptable industry certification.
• Experience in client interaction and support roles for a duration ranging between 4 to 6 years.
• Technical expertise and a desire to improve in the following technologies: Linux/Unix, Shell-scripting, Perl/Python, C, C++.
• Good communication skills (written & oral), ability to communicate confidently and concisely to both business and technical experts from clients and colleagues.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate solutions.
• Ability to occasionally build solutions using Shell scripts/Perl/ C++ to address problems while supporting/maintaining the systems.
• Well-organized work habits with attention to detail.
• Ability to work under pressure while remaining calm.
• Positive & passionate work attitude, motivated and result-oriented.
• Working experience with EMS/ OMS/ Trading platform development projects in /all of the following domains will be advantageous: Capital Markets (Equity, Derivatives), OTC/Listed Foreign Exchange (FX) Markets.
• Prior exposure to the following will be considered an advantage: FIX protocol, and concepts of Algorithmic Trading.

FlexTrade does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an authorized agreement for a particular SOW (Statement of Work) in place is hired: such resumes are deemed the sole property of FlexTrade.

FlexTrade Systems, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected by law.