E-Trading & Post Trade Implementation Specialist - Financial Solutions

Avature; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an E-Trading & Post Trade Implementation Specialist to join their dynamic team in London. This role is pivotal in integrating clients with advanced trading platforms, ensuring seamless order management and execution. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of equities, fixed income products, and the FIX protocol. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, guiding clients through complex implementations while identifying opportunities for improvement. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about financial technology, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in E-Trading and Post-Trade project delivery.
• Familiarity with regulatory knowledge in MiFID2, Dodd Frank, EMIR.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical pre-sales consultation to clients.
• Lead project delivery and manage relationships with vendors.

Skills

API-driven workflows

FIX protocol

Python

Java

Project Management

Analytical Skills

Customer Relationship Management

Tools

E-Trading Platforms

OMS

EMS

TMS

Job description

E-Trading & Post Trade Implementation Specialist - Financial Solutions

Location

London

Business Area

Sales and Client Service

Ref #

10043688

Description & Requirements

The world's market leaders in Equities, Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities rely upon Bloomberg for transparent data, powerful analytics and seamless execution. Our market leading E-Trading Venues and Order Routing Network help our customers to discover value, trade and report with total confidence.

E-Trading Implementations play a pivotal role in integrating clients with our FIT, FXGO, EMSX, FixNet, and Tradebook platforms, supporting a multitude of workflows spanning across pre-trade, trade execution, and post trade cycles. We provide technical advice during pre-sales stages, and project management integrations from inception to go-live, striving for a best-in-class integration experience for our customers and vendor partners.

Our team helps:

Buy-side firms integrate Order and Execution Management Systems (OMS/EMS) with Bloomberg via FIX and API for seamless order staging and dealer routing.

Sell-side dealers and brokers integrate their pricing and trading engines with Bloomberg to stream prices and manage real-time trade negotiations.

Post-trade clients connect to our FIX and SFTP-based workflows for reconciliation, allocation, clearing, and reporting.

What's the role?

As a member of the E-trading implementation team, you will be responsible for technical pre-sales as well as project delivery ensuring that customers’ integration requirements are correctly scoped out, tested, and delivered efficiently and on time. You will manage both buy side and sell side implementations covering Equities, ETFs and listed derivatives as well as fixed Income products, including cash and Derivatives across Credit and Rates business.

This is a highly cross-functional role. You’ll partner with Sales, Product, and Support teams, manage vendor relationships, and serve as a key contact for clients throughout the implementation lifecycle. You'll also bring a critical eye to risk, dependencies, and opportunities to improve processes and solutions.

You’ll demonstrate deep product knowledge and understanding of the Equities and Listed Derivatives communities as well as fixed income markets, how these products are traded electronically in the market, technology, operational workflow and trading activities.

You’ll be comfortable in a rapidly changing environment, have a proactive approach to solving problems and will not shy away from challenges. You will need to help manage our FIX technical specifications.

The projects you will be part of will involve a multitude of proprietary and third-party systems as well as a wide range of security types.

We'll trust you to:

• Provide technical pre-sales consultation to buy-side and sell-side customers and help them to identify appropriate workflow solution for their business needs;
• Guide clients through the design and full implementation cycle of e-trading and post-trade workflows;
• Lead project delivery, ensuring timelines, milestones, and meeting customer’s expectation;
• Manage relationships with OMS, EMS and TMS vendors;
• Continuously develop your knowledge of E-trading platforms, stay on top of market trends and product development;
• Identify opportunities and gaps, propose product improvements and workflow enhancements;
• Work closely with Sales and Account management, Product, Engineering, and Production Support. Team work is instrumental in our success.
• Travel to client and vendor sites as needed.

You’ll need to have:

• Experience with API-driven workflows and FIX protocol;
• Familiarity with programming languages (Python, Java);
• Deep understanding of listed markets (Equities, Futures, Options);
• Deep understanding of fixed income products (cash bonds and Derivatives across Credit and Rates);
• Self-started with a proven track record delivering E-Trading and Post-Trade projects;
• Prior experience in trading system, OMS, EMS implementation;
• Customer-focused attitude with an ability to foster relationships with internal and external partners;
• Self-motivated with the ability to multi-task and prioritize in demanding situations and meet deadlines;
• Strong analytical, project management and communication abilities.

We'd love to see:

• Regulatory knowledge in MiFID2, Dodd Frank, EMIR;
• Prior knowledge of Bloomberg platforms in Global Markets;