Description
Key Accountabilities:
- Design, deploy and support market data quoting and trading infrastructure.
- Provide project planning for relocations, systems installations and disaster recovery.
- Ensure documentation on all systems in use for production and disaster recovery and regulatory purposes.
- Ensure production problems, bugs, system problems/changes are documented and requests are acted upon promptly.
- Keep Senior Management advised of situations that may compromise agreed deliverables and/or affect production systems.
- Responsible for the dissemination of daily outages related to market data.
- Assess outages to distribute notification to the correct audience.
- Provides technical guidance and training to staff members regarding Reuters, Thomason Financial, Bloomberg and all other market data applications.
- Participate in the evaluation of test results ensuring that system changes accurately meet business requirements and process service criteria, fit into the technical environment and that existing operations are not adversely impacted
Knowledge and Experience:
- Previous experience in market research
Skills and Competencies:
- Hands on knowledge of Reuters RMDS, Wombat, Tibco RV, Bloomberg, Thomson One and other major market data systems.
- Proficient knowledge of Unix/Linux, Windows, Networking.
- Proficient knowledge of Tibco EMS, MQ Series and other messaging protocols - would be an asset
- Previous experience with Intel, Sparc, Opteron hardware to support Windows and UNIX operating systems.
- Advanced ability in Shell Scripting in Bourne Shell and Perl.