ION SME

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

Primary Responsibilities

* 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. (eg 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

Experience

* 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, MarketAxess, 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 troubleshooting 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/Skills

* 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

- MarkitWire

- SWM / FPML_Converter

* 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

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