Senior FIX Support and Messaging Analyst

I am currently recruiting for a Senior FIX support and Messaging analyst within an investment bank in the City.

This is a contract role which is destined to last 6 months and pay up to £480PD. My client is looking for a ASAP start (0-4 weeks).

The main purpose of this role is to:

* To provide functional and technical assistance for suite of applications spanning FIX, DMA and Algorithmic trading.
* Main focus will be on FIX and internal Order Management System.
* Role will involve daily liaison with application user community from front to Back Office and involve timely resolution of system problems in line with user requirements.
* Ensuring the well being of the systems as a whole
* Communicating with business end users as well as IT Development/infrastructure teams.

The key activities are to:

* Ensuring excellent user experience/satisfaction

* Championing good quality, reliable process surrounding managed applications, co-ordinated with all relevant stakeholders.

* Upholding application stability by suggesting and implementing monitoring processes and procedures to aid early identification and resolution of problems (ITRS/Tivoli)

* Cover allocation of weekend work and offer support out of hours (on-call)

* Support, upgrade and administration of the current trading applications. Vendor and bespoke.

* Support and administration of Reference Data for Trading applications

* Liaise with other IT teams & Business Users and with External Vendors & Brokers

* Incident, request, problem and change logging, reporting and management

* Status and issue reporting to Group Lead and/or Release Cluster/Project Manager

* Project management for small to medium projects

Essential skills include:

* 10+ year(s) of supporting Equities Cash/Derivatives and Fixed Income business units

* Front Office trading applications

* Knowledge of business process flows in Cash Equities electronic trading

* Experience supporting a FIX environment using various versions of the FIX protocol

* Experience of TIBCO Rendezvous and Rendezvous Routing Daemon or other middle messaging technologies.

* Data centre technologies including Collocation and Service provider connectivity (eg Radianz, TNS).

* Networking Engineering (Network Devices, TCP/IP, Routing, Firewalls and routing protocols eg BGP)

* Various Equity Cash and Derivative Electronic Exchanges, ECNs and MTFs (eg Deutsche Bourse, LSE Millennium, Euronext, BATS/CHI-X, etc)

* Database technologies (Sybase, MS-SQL)

* Scripting skills (Perl & Shell)

* Operating systems - UNIX, Windows,
* Experience of working in a client facing role

* Personal time management

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