FX FIX Client Integration Analyst - Assistant Vice President

Citigroup Inc.; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

Discretional annual performance bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Parental Leave

Employee Discounts

Learning & Development resources

Job summary

Citigroup Inc. in Belfast requires a self-motivated technologist to join the Global FX FIX Onboarding team. You will manage client engagements through go-live, maintain FIX API connectivity, and collaborate with trading desks and engineering to enable Citi's FX platforms.

The role spans live electronic trading, security and network design concepts, and delivering new server/client components while ensuring timely delivery and strong client satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a scientific or mathematical field is preferred.
• Experience with FIX protocol and low latency trading environments is advantageous.
• Strong communication and client interaction skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Engage with external and internal clients from initial engagement to go-live.
• Support FIX API connectivity, infrastructure, and related tooling.
• Coordinate with FX eSales, trading partners, and engineering teams.
• Ensure delivery against business priorities and maintain platform stability.

Skills

Unix/Linux

FIX protocol

Networking knowledge

Real-time low latency

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Team/Function Overview

The role requires a self-starting, well organized and motivated individual to work within our client facing Global FX FIX Onboarding Team. This team is responsible for all FX Client Onboarding onto Citi's FX platforms so they can utilize Citi's Global FX franchise. This requires engaging with external and internal clients, at a technical level, utilizing our FIX API so they can avail of our live electronic FX trading.

Role/Position Overview

FXLM Technology is focused on delivering IT solutions to the FX and Local Markets Sales & Trading business. We have around 400 people with the core of our development effort based in the financial hubs of London, New York, Tokyo and Singapore where we face off directly to the trading desks. Our core strength is providing the technical expertise and software development skills that directly affect the ability of our business to generate revenue and several of our client facing applications such as Citi FX Velocity and FX Click are leaders in their respective markets. We are committed to hiring the brightest and best technical experts and in return can offer roles with direct business interaction on projects from electronic and algorithmic trading to grid based computation of real-time risk metrics.

In this role you will be responsible for all client and technical team interactions from initial engagement until go live in our Production environment. You will gain the opportunity to work closely with FX eSales & FX trading partners and gain a real insight into the FX Cash, Options and Algorithmic platforms that are offered within Citi as well as gaining visibility of the world’s largest FX Franchise. Working to ensure the business needs are met for all our traded major liquid instruments such as FX Spot, FX Forwards, Precious Metals and NDF. The team’s responsibilities extend to all aspects of the electronic trading domain, including connectivity, market data distribution and Co-Lo Infrastructure.

You will have complete autonomy over your assigned tasks so strong self-management is a must as deadlines must be met to ensure our Franchise standards are maintained and our clients’ needs are met.

You will gain exposure to a wide variety of technically diverse systems from High Frequency Trading (HFT)/low latency trading platforms where every millisecond counts to network designs panning local and wide area networks to connectivity mechanisms like VPN’s, RTNS etc. all while maintaining best practices in fields such as security and stability.

Key Responsibilities

• Working with external clients and internal business teams to identify client requirements
• Arranging various forms of network connectivity for clients
• Delivering new server and client components as per evolving business requirements
• Maintaining the existing FIX API while helping development teams enhance the infrastructure
• Ensuring that there is a good understanding of the business priorities and to plan work accordingly
• Second line support (investigation of problems that front-line support cannot resolve)
• Identifying and correcting areas of poor stability across the platform
• Decommissioning of unused client sessions or network connections that will save the business money
• Ensuring all external clients and vendors are satisfied with the service provided

Key Relationships

• Front office through to back office system development teams
• Low Latency network implementation and design teams
• FX Trading Business partners – Traders, Sales, Product Management
• FX Front Line Support
• External and internal clients and vendors

Development Value

• Opportunities for career expansion for the successful individual to establish their profile in the Global Foreign Exchange Technology organization.
• Direct visibility of a global FX Franchise and access to the everyday business functions (e.g. Trading and Sales) that supports it.
• Access to a wide range of technology platforms and resources in a Global enterprise company

Skills

• Unix/Linux
• FIX protocol
• Intermediate networking knowledge is desirable but not required
• Real-time high frequency, low latency messaging work is desirable but not required

Qualifications

• Strong academic record, ideally with a good degree and a mathematical or scientific background.

Competencies

• Strong Communication skills
• Self-Motivated
• Willingness to learn

Education

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

What we'll provide you

By joining Citi, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Visit our About Us | Culture, Values & Benefits page to learn more.

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.

Job Family Group

Technology

Job Family

Applications Development

Time Type

Full time

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills

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