Exchange-traded Derivatives Functional & Technical Support

For more than 20 years, Talan has been advising companies and administrations, supporting them and implementing their transformation projects in France and abroad. With a presence on four continents, the group anticipates revenue of €500 million in 2023, for a headcount of more than 3,500 consultants.

• Technical and functional support of the Derivatives execution platform
• Day-to-day management of production: monitoring, capacity management, incident management, problem resolution activities, change management
• Day-to-day support of: derivative algo trading platform, OMS/EMS, FIX messaging, client connectivity …   
• Responsible for efficient resolution of issues to minimize impact to clients and internal users including liaising with end users, team members, management, vendors, other internal IT teams...
• Perform activities related to implementation and rollout for upgrades of existing services
• Work closely with development teams, business analysts, architects, all infrastructure teams to design and setup new systems and improve existing platforms (resilience, high availability, performance, low-latency, new functionalities...)
• Coordinate and organise changes with external vendors, markets, ECNs
• Plan, schedule, implement and document the change activities
• Improve team documentation, keep it up-to-date and share knowledge with global team

• Good knowledge of financial markets and electronic trading
• Good knowledge of derivatives products and execution business
• Excellent knowledge of FIX protocol and connectivity
• Excellent Linux knowledge

• Good knowledge of network technologies and protocols
• Basic scripting skills

• Team player
• Self-motivated
• Autonomous
• Strong analytical skills, follow-up capability and problem solving ability
• Detail-oriented and organized
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Capable of prioritizing tasks and multi-tasking projects
• Flexible and adaptable to new environments. Quickly learn new systems/products