Senior Trading Systems & Connectivity

Marex is a global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in the energy, commodities and financial markets.

The Group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services:
Market Making, Clearing, Hedging and Investment Solutions and Agency and Execution. It has a major franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, executing around 50 million trades and clearing 205 million contracts in 2022. The Group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers.

With more than 35 offices around the globe, and over 2,300 dedicated people enabling access to exchanges and technology-powered services.

The Senior Trading Systems & Connectivity oversees technical client onboarding and project management. The role is a part of the Trading Systems & Connectivity (TSC) team and provides technical trading support to all front-office, real-time trading, and market data systems. This team will oversee and handle projects for the Trading Support desk on an enterprise-wide basis when required.

Marex has unique access across markets with significant share globally both on and off exchange. The depth of knowledge amongst its teams and divisions provides its customers with clear advantage, and its technology-led service provides access to all major exchanges, order-flow management via screen, voice and DMA, plus award-winning data, insights, and analytics.

Responsibilities:

• Primary point of contact during the technical onboarding phase of screen-based trading platforms and FIX connectivity solutions for new and existing clients. This could include:
  • Requirement gathering.
  • Solution and design presentation.
  • Project manage system integrations.
  • Provide assistance through testing.
  • Configuration setup where required.
• Cross-team communication to ensure successful implementation through go-live
• Regular engagement with key Software Vendors and Exchanges, tracking ongoing projects, issue resolutions and product/service roadmaps.
• Conduct UAT ahead of Vendor / 3rd Party system changes and as part of conformance testing with clients and/or vendors to ensure risk and regulatory requirements are met.
• Coordinate the communication of scheduled system changes to client-facing teams, particularly those that require clients to take action.
• Obtain the relevant annual vendor attestation documents and due diligence questionnaires from 3rd Party Software/Service providers
• Maintain pricing schedules in relation to fees for usage of ISV solutions.
• Validate approval and reporting requirements have been met, prior to enabling algorithmic trading features
• Assist with requests for exchange and compliance reporting.
• Process requests to create, manage and decommission Exchange API Session/Keys, including maintaining records for audit, reporting, and billing purposes.
• Submit new service requests for Legal, Accounting, Risk, and Information Security Approval via Peoplesoft
• Continually monitor TSC inbox for requests and events.
• Conduct ongoing review of manual processes to identify improvements, including but not limited to, keeping Exchange connection IDs clean, consolidating ISVs and connections, administering review of all internal IDs, and implementing best practices.
• Understand and adhere to Compliance rules and how role relates to the regulatory framework.
• Must be comfortable with occasional needs for evening, weekend, and holiday coverage.
• Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the SEC, FINRA, NFA, CFTC and other applicable exchanges.
• Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
• Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
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  At all times complying with Marex’s Code of Conduct:
  • To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role, or any other activities for which you have any…