VARITE is looking for a qualified FIX Onboarding Engineer for one of its clients located in Chicago, IL.
WHAT THE CLIENT DOES?
IT Services and Consulting
WHAT WE DO?
Established in the Year 2000, VARITE is an award-winning minority business enterprise providing global consulting & staffing services to Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies. With 850+ global consultants, VARITE is committed to delivering excellence to its customers by leveraging its global experience and expertise in providing comprehensive scientific, engineering, technical, and non-technical staff augmentation and talent acquisition services.
HERE'S WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Work with the trading desk, to support external client's execution flow.
- Engage with the technology teams on client side to support the production business flow and work on various client onboarding projects for on-boarding new clients, and managing/maintaining the limits and systems interface for existing clients
- Manage all the production releases and environments for CARE, DMA and Algo workflows on Global Stock exchanges and support the clients flow from FIX Onboarding and operations perspective.
- Work on the cost savings initiatives by reducing and reviewing the FIX Connections globally
- Work with external clients on certification for new products and algorithms roll out.
- Work with QA teams to test out any new features/functions developed as part of new client requirements, and do the regression testing if any system updates are going to PROD.
- Work with networking team to implement firewall changes whenever any new platform/client is on-boarded.
What you offer
- Minimum 2 years of experience in FIX client on-boarding.
- High Level understanding of FIX protocol.
- Good understanding of Unix.
- Ability to work independently and read FIX Logs files efficiently to resolve order workflow and session related issues.
- Networking knowledge (e.g. TCP/UDP, NTP, ICMP, SNMP, etc.)
- Demonstrate high-level of client service skills (incident management, operational processes)
- Experience with supporting complex business-critical systems and enterprise distributed systems
- Front office experience preferably Futures and Equity Derivative, and experience with Electronic Trading Systems/Client Connectivity.
- Ready to work in Flexible hours, including weekends.
- 1st point of contact for incidents to both clients and internally stakeholders
- Interest in at least one programming language (Java/C#)
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
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