Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Support Manager (Market Connectivity)

 Job Description:

Key Areas of Responsibilities

  • Early morning exchange connectivity checks, and other shifts to support Asia exchanges when needed
  • Support Daily Trading operations for various trading desks of High Touch & Low Touch cash Equities and F&O desk
  • Manage Credit Risk System
  • Execute exchange driven mandatory upgrades
  • Rollout software upgrades and working with infra teams to setup connectivity between various exchanges and external brokers.
  • Play key role to participate weekend exchange connectivity tests, including exchanges driven and internal driven activities.

Requirements

  • Degree holder in Computer Science, Information Technology/Engineering or related studies

  • Minimum of 10 years proficiency, support and good experience in Market Connectivity applications and exchange gateways
  • Hands-on experience in supporting Market Data applications like Reuters, Bloomberg

  • Excellent knowledge of Cash Equity business in a DMA/DSA, Agency and Program Trading environment

  • Good knowledge of exchange rules of major Asian markets like (Hong Kong, China CONNECT, Japan, KR, SG, TW, AU, IN, ID)

  • Good exposure in Trading Systems monitoring tools like KIBANA, Grafana, Logstash, Elastic search, ITRS, etc

  • Good exposure in Credit Risk Management Systems

  • Good exposure in Change & Incident Management tools like ServiceNOW
  • Must be self-starter and be able to work independently

  • Willing to undertake other Trade Support functions

  • Ready to work in Trading floor (high pressure environment)

  • Excellent communications skills and the ability to interact with Vendors and Traders

Technology skills:

  • Knowledge in Networking, Firewall, NAT, Multicast, Unicast, etc

  • Knowledge in ORACLE (user level), SQL, Store Procedures.

  • Knowledge in Unix/Linux, Shell scripting, Perl.

  • Basic Knowledge in FIX and other Major exchange Protocols.

  Required Skills:

Connectivity