Application Support Engineer - Equities
Application Support Engineer - Equities
Job Title: Trade Application Support Engineer, US Equities
Work model: 4x a week in office, Manhattan
Comp: 200-500k total compensation
Summary: A leading multi strat hedge fund is looking for an application support engineer to join their growing equities team. A successful candidate will have automation experience in Python. The role will have a high level of interaction with the investment staff including Portfolio Managers, Traders, and Analysts, to proactively discover and understand issues and potential workflow/system improvements. They must have experience directly supporting the demanding needs of a growing equities business.
Responsibilities:
- Support Equities investment staff who leverage a full stack of Equities focused applications, including Equity Trading, Position, PnL, Risk, Reporting, Research and compliance systems.
- Enhance, support and maintain the firm's Equity front, middle and back-office systems
- Proactively engage with PMs, Traders, and Analysts to resolve issues and identify improvement opportunities
- Document common support issues, trade flows and procedures on Confluence.
- Work with external vendors to resolve issues and deliver strategic enhancements
- Provide escalation support for other regions, including evenings and weekends, on rotation
- Work in person 4+ times a week
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience supporting an Equities investment/trading desk within investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers or associated software vendors
- A thorough understanding of Equity products e.g. Cash Equities, Futures, Options. Must be able to discuss details with Portfolio Managers, Traders, Analysts, Operations and Risk Managers.
- Strong troubleshooting and creative problem-solving abilities, including being able to interpret, understand and troubleshoot internally developed systems
- Experience scripting tools in python and/or PowerShell for support purposes
- SQL experience across varioabase implementations
- Experience supporting OMS/EMS equity platforms such as Flextrade, Virtu Triton, SpiderRock
- Experience in supporting applications hosted on Linux, Cloud (Kubernetes, AWS)
- Knowledge of Messaging platforms - Solace, Kafka, RabbitMQ
- Experience troubleshooting market and static data related issues that impact trade flow
- Familiarity with enterprise scheduling tools such as ActiveBatch, Airflow, Control-M, AutoSys
- Experience using/building monitoring on platforms like ITRS Geneos, Zabbix, LogicMonitor
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