E-Trading & Post Trade Implementation Specialist - Financial Solutions London, GBR Posted yesterday

Bloomberg L.P.; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial data and analytics seeks an E-Trading Implementation specialist to manage client integrations and project deliveries. The role involves technical pre-sales consultation, cross-functional collaboration, and a deep understanding of trading systems and workflows. Ideal candidates will have experience with API-driven workflows, FIX protocol, and a customer-focused attitude. Join a diverse team that values innovation and excellence in the fast-paced world of trading.

Qualifications

• Experience with API-driven workflows and FIX protocol.
• Self-starter with a track record in E-Trading and Post-Trade projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical pre-sales consultation to clients.
• Lead project delivery ensuring timelines and expectations are met.
• Manage relationships with OMS, EMS, and TMS vendors.

Skills

API-driven workflows

FIX protocol

Customer-focused attitude

Analytical abilities

Project management

Education

Experience with trading systems

Regulatory knowledge in MiFID2

Tools

Python

Java

Job description

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;

• Knowledge of Bloomberg Trading API;

• An additional European language.

Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

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