FIX Connectivity Engineer | Experienced Hire

Susquehanna International Group; Bala Cynwyd (PA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Susquehanna International Group is looking for a FIX Connectivity Engineer to support electronic trading connectivity for their global client-facing brokerage operations. The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of experience working with the FIX protocol and electronic trading systems.

The role involves onboarding clients, troubleshooting production issues, and maintaining FIX session configurations. Candidates should have strong analytical and communication skills. Work authorization via visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience supporting or implementing FIX connectivity.
• Strong understanding of session-level and application-level FIX messages.
• Hands-on experience troubleshooting using logs and network tools.

Responsibilities

• Implement and support FIX connectivity for clients and vendors.
• Manage the full connectivity onboarding lifecycle.
• Analyze FIX messages across various workflows.
• Troubleshoot production issues related to order flow.

Skills

FIX protocol

Order management systems

Trading workflows

Troubleshooting

SQL

Job description

Overview

Susquehanna International Group is seeking a FIX Connectivity Engineer to support, enhance, and expand electronic trading connectivity for our global client‑facing brokerage trading business. This role will focus on onboarding and maintaining FIX‑based client, broker, venue, OMS/EMS, and market connectivity across equities, options, FX, or other asset classes.

The ideal candidate has strong hands‑on experience with the FIX protocol, trading workflows, order management systems, certification testing, and production support in a brokerage or electronic trading environment. This person will work closely with trading desks, clients, exchanges, vendors, product teams, infrastructure, compliance, and application development teams to deliver reliable and well‑controlled connectivity solutions.

In This Role, You Will

• Implement, configure, test, and support FIX connectivity for clients, counterparties, exchanges, ATSs, ECNs, brokers, OMS/EMS platforms, and trading vendors.
• Manage full connectivity onboarding lifecycle, including requirements gathering, session setup, message specification review, certification, production rollout, and post‑go‑live support.
• Analyze FIX messages across order entry, cancel/replace, execution reports, drop copy, allocations, and administrative workflows.
• Troubleshoot production issues involving order flow, rejects, sequence gaps, session disconnects, latency, routing behavior, and trade reporting discrepancies.
• Maintain and enhance FIX session configurations, routing rules, symbol handling, account mappings, entitlement controls, and message transformations.
• Partner with developers and infrastructure teams to improve connectivity platforms, monitoring, alerting, resiliency, and operational tooling.
• Work with business stakeholders to understand trading workflows and translate requirements into technical connectivity specifications.
• Participate in exchange, broker, and vendor certification testing.
• Support incident response, root‑cause analysis, and remediation for connectivity‑related issues.
• Provide occasional off‑hours support for production releases, venue testing, market events, or critical incidents.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience supporting or implementing FIX connectivity in a brokerage, trading firm, exchange, fintech, OMS/EMS vendor, or financial technology environment.
• Strong understanding of the FIX protocol, including session‑level and application‑level messages.
• Familiarity with electronic trading concepts, order lifecycle, routing, executions, allocations, and trade capture.
• Hands‑on experience troubleshooting FIX sessions using logs, message viewers, network tools, or trading support platforms.
• Experience working in production support environments with change management, incident management, and release controls.
• Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
• Ability to work directly with clients, vendors, traders, developers, and operations teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SQL, scripting, or reporting tools.
• Familiarity with OMS/EMS platforms such as Bloomberg EMSX, Fidessa, FlexTrade, Charles River, Eze, Portware, or similar systems.
• Knowledge of exchange or market center connectivity, including order routing and drop copy.
• Experience participating in client‑facing technical onboarding or production readiness reviews.
• Experience dealing with order routing in a global, multi‑system environment.
• Experience working in a Linux environment.

Ideal Candidate Will Have

• Strong problem‑solving under time‑sensitive market conditions.
• Detail‑oriented approach to protocol specifications, message flows, and production controls.
• Clear communication with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Ownership mindset for production stability and client experience.
• Ability to manage multiple onboarding, certification, and support priorities simultaneously, where priorities may shift dynamically due to business need.

Visa sponsorship for work authorization is not available for this position now or in the future.