Market Data Engineer

Position Title: Market Data Engineer

NYC/Financial District

Compensation: $120 - $160k, doe

 PURPOSE

Role on Market Data Infrastructure team. Provide technical direction for quote and trading infrastructure. Knowledge of Unix, Windows,  Networking, Wombat, Reuters RMDS, Bloomberg, Thomson One, Royal Blue and other major marketdata systems. Provide good communication between marketdata users, technology staff and management.

 PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

· Design, deploy and support market data quoting and trading infrastructure.

· Provide project planning for relocations, systems installations and disaster recovery.

· Ensure documentation on all systems in use for production and disaster recovery and regulatory purposes.

· Ensure production problems, bugs, system problems/changes are documented and requests are acted upon promptly. Keep Senior Management advised of situations that may compromise agreed deliverables and/or affect production systems.

· Responsible for the dissemination of daily outages related to marketdata. Assess outages to distribute notification to the correct audience.

· Provides technical guidance and training to staff members regarding Reuters, Thomason Financial, Bloomberg, Royal Blue and all other marketdata applications.

· Participate in the evaluation of test results ensuring that system changes accurately meet business requirements and process service criteria, fit into the technical environment and that existing operations are not adversely impacted.

 JOB SPECIFICATIONS

· Strength in Market Data concepts: Datafeeds, stock exchanges and vendor reporting requirements.

· Knowledge of Fix, STAMP, QIX, SDP, SFTI, ECNs. 

· Good verbal and written communication skills.

· Knowledge of basic project management skills.

· Possess interpersonal skills enabling the incumbent to deal with and relate well with several levels of users and management.

 

Required:

· Knowledge of major marketdata vendor platforms such as Wombat, Reuters RMDS, TIBCO, Bloomberg, Thomson Financial and Inter Dealer Brokers (RMDS and TIBCO are critical).

· Experience with Market data services inventory and cost reconciliation with tools such as MDM, FITS, or GLOW.

· Knowledge of ECN, FIX trading technologies

· Knowledge of Direct Exchange feeds

· Knowledge of Trade Order Management systems

· Worked with Intel, Sparc, Opteron hardware to support Windows and UNIX operating systems

· Mastery of shell scripting in bourne shell and perl

·  Management skills- planning, scheduling, organizing and negotiating. Demonstrated competency in crafting efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems.
KEY RELATIONSHIPS

Plays an integral role in the deployment of all quote and trading applications; interaction with the project management is key to the success of the project.

 

Submit resume in strictest confidence to: joann@gmr-corp.com