Trade Flow support

JR United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Trade Flow Support professional in London. The role involves managing global trading platform readiness and providing support across the trading platform while ensuring efficient processes through detailed technical skills. Candidates should possess strong technical abilities, particularly in Linux and scripting, and a Bachelor's degree in a related field.

Benefits

Life Assurance

5% annual bonus

Pension Scheme – Employer matched to 5%

Annual Leave – 23 days rising to 27 with length of service

Sick Pay – Increasing with length of service

Qualifications

• Proficient in Linux OS, Bash, and a scripting language such as Python.
• Experience in SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL).
• Strong verbal/written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage global trading platform readiness: pre-trading & post-trading.
• Support end-to-end transaction flow across the trading platform.
• Identify, analyse, and correct alerts & issues to minimize trade flow impact.

Skills

Linux OS

Bash scripting

Python

SQL

TCP/IP

Incident Management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or related subject

Tools

Atlassian stack

Elastic Stack

Nagios

Job description

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At Peregrine, we’re constantly seeking Specialist Talent that offer the ideal mix of skills, experience, and attitude, to place with our vast array of clients. From Project Change Professionals in large government organisations to Software Developers in the private sector – we are always in search of the best talent to place, now.

How Specialist Talent Works

At Peregrine, we find the best talent for our clients. Unlike traditional contractors, where you are hired by the client, you remain a permanent employee of Peregrine, with access to all our standard benefits:

• A Permanent Position
• Life Assurance
• 5% annual bonus
• Pension Scheme – Employer matched to 5%
• Voluntary Benefits – Health Cash Plan, Dental, Will Writing etc
• Annual Leave – 23 days rising to 27 with length of service
• Sick Pay – Increasing with length of service

Role overview: Trade Flow Support (London)

• Manage global trading platform readiness: pre-trading & post-trading
• Provide monitoring and support for end-to-end transaction flow across the trading platform
• Quickly identify, analyse and correct alerts & issues and/or escalate to minimize trade flow impact and pre-empt outages
• Incident management: create and send reports following established process
• Intensive interaction with trading community, back-office operations, brokers, exchanges, development and infrastructure teams
• Support scheduled changes: application deployments, network implementations and server maintenance
• Oversee automated processes, scheduled jobs and regular reports
• Identify inefficiencies such as repetitive activities, manual processes and suboptimum tools/workflows to drive continuous improvements via automation, collaboration with internal and external teams
• Hands on trade flow support experience essential
• Proficient in Linux OS
• Proficiency with Bash and a scripting language such as Python or Perl required
• Detailed practical knowledge of FIX. Ideally, familiarity with native exchange protocols
• Experience in SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL)
• Familiarity with KDB+ is beneficial
• Working knowledge with TCP/IP, multicast, TCPdump, clocking (PTP, NTP) – Beneficial
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or related subject
• Highly organized, detailed, control oriented, enjoys solving problems and brings in a "take charge" attitude
• Strong verbal/written communication skills required to support daily interaction with brokers, exchanges, and internal teams
• Self-motivated individual that takes initiatives and has an ownership & accountability mindset
• Must show the ability to make quick decisions and establish priorities in a multi-tasking & fast-paced environment
• Experience with the Atlassian stack (JIRA, Service Desk, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo), Elastic Stack and Nagios
• Knowledge of ITIL is advantageous

If you hold the experience and technical skills outlined above which would enable you to hit the ground running, please apply to find out more information about this exciting opportunity.

About us:

At Peregrine, we see beyond the immediate and look to the horizon. We build lasting, meaningful partnerships with our clients, and deliver flexible solutions for every resourcing need, both now and in the future. Together, we help our clients to engage, develop and harness the skills they need to achieve and grow the workforce they want.

Our culture:

At Peregrine we embrace fresh ideas, and we love learning fast. Our solutions are trusted and established, so we have the confidence of knowing we have a solid foundation. We rely on openness and honesty, and we’re always ready to help each other out. And we believe that our work can benefit society – whether it’s finding the digital talent of the future or being a driver for social mobility.

Our commitment to diversity:

At Peregrine, we’re proudly committed to championing diversity and inclusion, with company-wide initiatives to drive greater social mobility and reduce our environmental impact. Our teams represent a huge breadth of cultures, languages, and ethnicities, and over 20 different nationalities. We also employ candidates from a range of educational and socioeconomic backgrounds. Our partnerships with numerous charities ensure that we can stay well-informed and continue to improve our practices for the future. It reflects in the way we recruit for our clients as we assist them in becoming more diverse.