Trading Application Support

Talan; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a motivated individual to manage application support for various financial desks. This role entails configuring proprietary software for trading and pricing, ensuring optimal performance, and facilitating electronic executions. The ideal candidate will possess strong programming skills and thrive in a fast-paced front-office environment. With a commitment to innovation and transformation, this role offers the opportunity to contribute to significant projects within a dynamic team. If you're ready to take on challenges and grow your career in a hybrid working environment, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills and programming abilities in various languages.
• Relational database knowledge and ability to work independently.

Responsibilities

• Manage application support for various financial desks and proprietary software settings.
• Handle electronic executions, bug reporting, and feature requests.

Skills

Verbal and written communication skills

Programming skills (Python, PHP, Visual Basic, Unix Shell Scripts, C#, Java)

Relational database knowledge

Ability to thrive in a demanding front-office environment

Team player

Independent working capability

Job description

Company Description

For more than 20 years, Talan has been advising companies and administrations, supporting them and implementing their transformation projects in the UK and abroad. With a presence on four continents and a headcount of 5000 consultants, our ambition is to reach a billion turnover by the end of 2025.

In the UK, Talan counts 500 employees on several sites, the main being: London, Edinburgh, Chester, and Leeds.

Job Description

This role consists of managing the support of applications for the following desks:

• Index flow
• Emerging markets
• Commodities
• Equity financing
• Flow sales

Duties will include the setting of proprietary software for booking, pricing, and trading (manual and automated, market interface):

• Real-time settings
• Market data parameters
• Market access performance tuning
• Computation setup

Duties will also include electronic executions matching, new releases deployment, bug reporting, and new features or improvements requests to development teams.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Programming skills for scripting or small development (Python/PHP/Visual Basic/Unix Shell Scripts/C#/Java).
• Relational database knowledge.
• Must be able to thrive in a demanding front-office environment.
• Highly motivated team player but also capable of working independently.

Nice to have:

• Strong knowledge of financial markets, derivative products (equities and commodities).
• Electronic trading support experience.
• Knowledge of options and futures operations/clearing.
• Knowledge of Citrix servers’ management.

Additional Information: Hybrid working from Central London.