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Trading Applications Support Engineer

TSR Consulting
New York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 2/17/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/10/2025

About TSR :

TSR is a relationship-based, customer-focused IT and technical services staffing company.

For over 40 years TSR, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, TSR Consulting Services, have prospered in the Information Technology staffing business, earning the respect of companies both large and small with well refined candidate screening, timely placement, and a real understanding of the right skill sets required by our clients.

Mission & Vision

  • We do not believe in building a vision around the company but building a company around our vision, which is simply;

Every employee's voice matters, their effort is appreciated, and their talent is rewarded.

We challenge each employee daily, to raise the bar on how we treat our consultants and candidates. For far too long in this industry, candidates have been ghosted, lied to, or placed at a client and then forgotten about. Each day our staff works tirelessly at qualifying and placing, top talent with our clients, in a compassionate and caring manner.

Not every candidate is a match for the job, but every candidate and consultant will be treated with respect and professionalism.

Trading Applications Support Engineer

Job Description

  • Location : New York, New York
  • Type : Contract
  • Job #81579
  • Our client, a leading financial services company, is hiring a Trading Applications Support Engineer on a contract basis.

    Job ID# 81579

    Work Location : New York, NY

    Summary :

    As a member of the Reliability and Production Engineering team within Sales and Trading Production Management, you will be supporting critical trading applications in a fast paced, exciting, and dynamic Trading Floor environment. You will work within a team of technologists acting as the first point of contact for Compliance, Risk, High Touch Trading Desks, and Development teams.

    Our team is responsible for :

  • Coordinating the preparation and trading of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), working closely with NYSE, NASDAQ, BATS, and IEX.
  • Investigation of user queries. E.g. order rejects, trade breaks, exchange issues.
  • Liaising with clients, exchanges, vendors, and internal teams where appropriate.
  • Notifying the business units of system issues or failures in a timely manner.
  • Communicating with global counterparts when necessary.
  • Creation of new tools and automation of processes to better support and proactively monitor our environment.
  • Liaising with users and development teams on potential improvements to our trading applications
  • Proactive & reactive monitoring of processes, connections & trade flows.
  • Incident and problem management adhering to ITIL framework
  • Assisting Compliance / Risk on regulatory inquiries and user permissions.
  • Testing failure scenarios to identify problems and improve outage recovery procedures.
  • Qualifications :

  • Must enjoy working within a team and have the ability to communicate well cross functionally
  • Ability to translate business needs into technical specifications
  • Excellent problem solving skills and passion for developing new and creative solutions to complex problems
  • Ability to interact with Traders and the drive to learn about securities and markets
  • Good business knowledge of Equities would include the ability to demonstrate an understanding of different instruments and how and where they trade. This would also include the ability to describe an order book and the different order types that can be used
  • Understanding of SQL and Sybase databases.
  • Understanding of operating systems (UNIX, PC)
  • Understanding of real time distributed application architectures and experience with message based protocols e.g. FIX.
  • Incident management skills
  • Ability to own issues from start to finish, with a commitment to determining root cause and follow ups.
  • Proficiency in a scripting language such as Perl / Python and Shell
  • Knowledge of Agile methodology and cycle is a plus
  • Pay Rate : Upto $54.57 / hr

    Salary : $55

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