Front Office IT Support Engineer

MARGO; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech consultancy in London is seeking a Front Office IT Support Engineer. This role involves managing real-time settings and tuning market access performance in a demanding environment. Strong programming skills for scripting and knowledge of financial markets are essential. The position offers prospects for development into roles like team leader or production engineer.

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills for scripting or development.
• Proficient in relational databases and Linux/Windows environments.
• Excellent communication skills required.

Responsibilities

• Manage real-time settings and market data parameters.
• Tune market access performance and set up computations.
• Handle incident and change management.

Skills

Programming skills for scripting or small development (Perl/ PHP/ Visual Basic/ Unix Shell)

Relational database knowledge

Proficiency in both Linux and Windows environments

Excellent verbal and written communication

Ability to thrive in a demanding front-office environment

High motivated team player

Knowledge of financial markets

IT/Trading support experience

Job description

Margo is a Tech Native consultancy covering high value-added IT expertise for the market finance industry. We believe that the smart alliance between complex IT topics and the finance area brings the most challenging topics to our consultants: low latency, multithreading, high data volume…

Joining Margo as an IT consultant, is the promise to be part of a human-sized company with an internal monitoring and tailor-made training policy that assure you to develop your skills.

Its offers are organised around 3 main expertise: IT Support, Rapid Application Development and Software Development.

Margo is seeking a Front Office IT Support Engineer to integrate its teams within a worldwide corporate and investment bank.

Key Responsibilities

• Real-Time settings
• Market data parameters
• Market access performance tuning
• Computation setup
• Incident and change management
• Electronic executions matching
• Deployment of new versions and features
• Bug reporting
• IT projects assistance

Financial products

• Forex
• Equities and derivatives
• Emerging markets
• Commodities
• Risk and PnL
• Credit and rates
• Exchange-traded funds
• Convertible bonds

Skills required

• Programming skills for scripting or small development (Perl/ PHP/ Visual Basic/ Unix Shell)
• Relational database knowledge and proficiency in both Linux and windows environments
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Ability to thrive in a demanding front-office environment
• High motivated team player but also capable of working independently
• Knowledge of financial markets
• IT/Trading support experience

Development prospects

• Team leader: manage a team of several people
• Production engineer: more technical, having more exposure to the code side of things
• Rapid Application Developer with more exposure to development aspects