Associate, Production Support – Equity Derivatives
FTE | NYC | Hybrid (50%)
Target Base Salary $115,000 – 145,000+
The Equity Derivatives Production Services team provides front-office application support for Sales, Trading, Risk Management, and Middle Office. Based on the trading floor, the team supports critical real-time applications for trade capture, position keeping, risk management, P&L attribution, and stress testing, while working directly with business users to address issues and evolving requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide all levels of application support for Front Office Equity Derivatives platforms
- Troubleshoot and diagnose Trading and Risk applications in real-time
- Collaborate with development teams on requirement gathering and systems development
- Support End-Of-Day processes for a complex Risk system, while collaborating with Production Support teams in other regions
- Take ownership of problems and follow-up to completion, while maintaining a high standard of communication with the stakeholders
- Utilize ServiceNow to record and track incidents, conduct releases, and perform Problem Management
- Track issues and prioritize workload
- Manage releases and deployment and perform DR/BCP management
- Manage user queries and service requests, often requiring an in-depth analysis of the technical and/or business logic of our systems
- Automate tasks to reduce toil
Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years experience in trade floor or related support experience with Front Office trading systems
- Experience in supporting Equity Derivatives (and associated life cycle). An experience supporting other Derivatives products could be considered
- Bachelors in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering is preferred
- A good understanding of risk management systems
- Strong technical and analytical skills (SQL knowledge and some scripting experience)
- Proficient user knowledge of UNIX and Windows
- Good problem solving skills while working under pressure
- Excellent communication skills, ability to multi-task, and work towards tight deadlines
- Ability to work in a fast paced trading environment
Desired Qualifications:
- Knowledge of Derivatives product pricing and risk analysis
- Hands‑on experiences with Autosys or other scheduling platforms
- Knowledge of Incident, Problem and Change management process
- Middleware knowledge, such as TIBCO RV, is a plus