ION SME

Fantastic opportunity to join a world class banking environment, based in the City of London.

• Working with key stakeholders globally to provide trading solutions
• Coordination, planning, and execution of changes across proprietary systems, vendor platforms and third-party components supporting the Fixed Income desk
• Demonstrating a strong focus on identifying and implementing process enhancements to optimise system performance and elevating user experience
• Providing deskside L3 ION/e-trading support (and remote where appropriate) across Fixed Income including trading/sales desks, back-office and ION platform
• Providing L3 support to the production Fixed Income trade flow from execution on market to downstream systems, including BBG TOMS and back-office systems
• Liaising with other teams in supporting "add-on" functionality & up/downstream process flows for the Fixed Income Trading Desk. (e.g. Trade flows, end of day position marking etc.)
• Systems configuration:
  Follow set procedures to configure supported applications according to approved functional requirements. These requirements may form part of the project implementation, or may be part of production support
• Maintenance of PRD & DR environment:
  Be responsible for the working state of PRD & DR environments, ensuring they are fit for use

• Extensive experience supporting a live ION Trading environment with live market connectivity for Rates, Credit or Swaps desks with access to trading venues such as MTS, Brokertec, , Bloomberg, Tradeweb, Market Axess, iSwap, Tradition & EUREX.
• Strong experience providing technical support for Fixed Income Desks within an Investment Bank.
• Strong experience working with both project team & users.
• General understanding of financial markets and products, in particular Fixed Income & Rates.
• Strong trouble shooting experience within the ION environment
• Familiarity with Bloomberg TOMS for trade & position management
• Understanding & prior experience of full end to end cycle for quoting, trading, electronic trade confirmations, settlement, P&L valuations.

• Technical knowledge of ION components:
  • Platform
  • MMI
  • MDATA
  • Pricing (PXE)
  • Connectivity
  • Ticketing, Position, & Risk
  • Trading Tools
  • RFP Gateways/STP Server
  • VMO/VMQ
• Strong knowledge of:
  • Fixed Income financial products
  • Bond Pricing
  • Hedging
  • Market connectivity & STP
  • Refdata
  • Markit Wire
  • SWM  
• Strong knowledge of working on Linux Platforms.
• Intermediate knowledge of Sybase + TCL scripting.
• Basic knowledge of Transact SQL, Excel, and VBA
• Experience in using Bloomberg TOMS & Tradeweb Viewer for trade entry
• Use of JIRA
• Testing Experience