Global Banking & Markets Senior FICC Automation & Electronic Vice President London

Description

Who are we looking for

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior FICC Automation & Electronic Trading Systems Engineer to join our dynamic team. This pivotal role involves designing developing and optimizing a strategic high-performance platform for real-time pricing quoting and lifecycle automation across various FICC derivatives products while also ensuring robust low-latency and scalable electronic trading solutions. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in building large-scale distributed systems expertise in electronic trading concepts hands-on experience with FIX protocols and a keen interest in leveraging AI tooling to enhance development workflows.

Responsibilities:

• Design develop and optimize a strategic high-performance platform for real-time pricing quoting and lifecycle automation in various FICC derivatives products driving real-time decision making and facilitating trade-booking.
• Develop and maintain high-performance low-latency electronic trading systems and infrastructure ensuring robust and scalable solutions.
• Work extensively with Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol for order routing market data and post-trade communication with exchanges brokers and other counterparties.
• Explore evaluate and incorporate AI tooling and machine learning techniques into development workflows to improve efficiency automation and system capabilities.
• Collaborate closely with quantitative researchers traders and sales to translate complex trading strategies and business requirements into robust production-ready code.
• Perform system analysis performance tuning and troubleshooting to ensure optimal system reliability accuracy and efficiency.
• Develop and maintain tools for monitoring alerting and reporting on trading system performance and market activity.
• Participate in code reviews architectural discussions and contribute to the overall technical direction of the trading platform.
• Proactively engage with stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and contribute to automated testing DevOps and Continuous Deployment practices.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal risk management policies.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science Electrical Engineering Quantitative Finance or a related technical discipline.
• 5 years of professional experience in software development with a significant focus on electronic trading systems large-scale distributed platforms and automation solutions.
• Proven expertise in electronic trading concepts including market microstructure order types (e.g. limit market iceberg) execution algorithms (e.g. VWAP TWAP POV) and low-latency system design.
• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with FIX protocol versions (e.g. FIX 4.2 4.4 5.0 SP2) including message parsing session management and custom tag implementation.
• Strong programming skills in Java (commercial experience required) with additional proficiency in C or Python for performance-critical applications.
• Experience with real-time data processing distributed systems and multi-threaded programming.
• Solid understanding of FICC derivatives products financial markets and trading workflows particularly in pricing quoting and lifecycle automation.
• Familiarity with automated testing DevOps and Continuous Deployment practices.
• Demonstrated interest in using and incorporating AI tooling and machine learning into development workflows.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in NoSQL data stores e.g. Cassandra MongoDB or Elastic.
• Experience in modern message-oriented middleware e.g. Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Experience in debugging complex distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) for trading infrastructure.
• Knowledge of network protocols and low-latency networking techniques.
• Familiarity with kdb/Q or other time-series databases.
• Experience working directly with trading and sales users and converting their requirements into actionable solutions.

Required Experience:

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