Onboarding Analyst

Job Description:

A rapidly expanding fin-tech firm specializing in agency algorithms in futures and fixed income markets. The firms culture is founded on curiosity, creativity, and hard work and is based on tested quantitative research. The team is smart, innovative and constantly hunting for inspired solutions to reduce implicit trading costs and manage execution risk for their clients. They value individuals who are detail-oriented and seek perfection in their work. They are seeking an experienced analyst to manage the on-boarding of clients and vendor partners.

The candidate will organize and manage the full end-to-end certification, implementation and testing process, including:

• Coordinate the intake of new client, product and feature enablement requests into the formal project/task management systems
• Conduct regular structured progress and prioritization reviews with internal stakeholders in sales, coverage, product and technology
• The candidate will provide hands-on, technical delivery of client and vendor on-boarding and certification, including the coordination of network connectivity and inbound/outbound FIX conformance testing.
• The candidate will plan and prepare the implementation of production network routing and FIX gateways.
• The candidate will be responsible for the scheduling, execution and verification of the "go-live" in coordination with all technical and business stakeholders

Company Requirements:

• Experience with FIX protocol systems.
• Familiarity with basic network connectivity, including: TCP/IP, VPNs, LOA provisioning, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Linux, XML, bash, GNU command line utilities, SQL or similar database technologies.
• Ability to interpret Exchange and Vendor specifications.
• Ability to read/parse logs and process state management tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational and recordkeeping skills.

Suggested / Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of listed futures and cash treasuries markets
• Familiarity with onboarding project management processes and systems
• Experience with Broker, OMS/EMS, and Exchange UAT environment
• 3-6 years experience preferred