What are the responsibilities and job description for the FIX Onboarding and Production Support Specialist position at VSG Business Solutions LLC?
f-f interview in NYC (or possibly Jersey City)
contract : six months with likely extension
Key skills : FIX Onboarding, Python
Location : New York City on hybrid basis (2-3 days / week)
Local candidates strongly preferred, interview will likely be f-f for final round
This is for a foreign bank
Title : FIX Onboarding and Production Support Specialist
Job Description :
Seeking a hands-on FIX Onboarding and / or Production Support candidate who will support Equity products including high touch and low touch workflows. Our team supports the front office, middle office and back office processes but our primary focus is support the FIX gateway and FIX client onboarding. Familiarity with pre and post trade matching solutions is a plus.
The ideal candidate will bring their experiences, best practices, and a collaborative attitude to help drive initiatives. To be successful, one must be able to effectively communicate on a business (traders) and technical level (OMS trade support and middle office).
Trade Support Duties :
- Provide technical and development support to internal and external clients and software vendors utilizing FIX (4.2 / 4.4) for e-trading, prices and STP in various financial products.
- Work with clients as well as Trading Desk to understand their FIX onboarding requirements and configure FIX settings to meet their needs.
- Build solutions to existing platforms based on client and business feedback.
- Work with external software vendors that have integrated with our systems, or vice versa to ensure FIX onboarding, Testing and Production support are in line with the Business objectives.
- Coordinate the release of new applications and FIX configurations and enhancements with external clients
- Identify and manage any integration issues & Provide 3rd level of support to production issues relating to FIX and Application Support Documenting procedures and training internal support teams
- Work collaboratively with multiple agile teams to help deliver end-to-end products and features, seeing them through from conception to delivery Develop and maintain solutions for operational administration, system / data backup, disaster recovery, and security / performance monitoring Continuously evaluate existing systems with industry standards, and make recommendations for improvement Sustain and improve the process of knowledge sharing throughout the OMS trade support team.
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