Front Office Architecture Specialist and Lead (ION Fixed Income Trading)

Full Job Description

The Front Office Technology (FO Tech) group within the larger technology team and supports many critical processes across the front office.

The Architecture Specialist and Lead will manage third party systems into the trader ecosystem and creates specifications for internal development. The role is joining an active team in building, supporting, and integrating front office systems.

Role & Responsibilities: FO Architecture Specialist and Lead will help the Fixed income desks (Treasuries, Agencies, IG and HY Credit, Convertible Bonds, LATAM Emerging Markets, MBS) as well as Repo and Loans

Primary Fixed Income systems are Ion, Bloomberg, and Broadridge Impact

Loan platforms include Centricity, Promerit, and LMS

Finance platforms include Finpro and Smartloan

Market connectivity integration includes all major Fixed Income Dealer and Dealer to Client platforms.

Candidate will (with team) own front end on prem ION infrastructure installations and upgrades

Candidate will configure and maintain pricing and trading feeds

Candidate will need to demonstrate knowledge of fix and other market connectivity protocols

Candidate will need to be able to troubleshoot network and logical connections

Candidate will need to demo and teach desk traders and internal support teams

Role includes working directly with markets and providers, and (as need arises) with producers.

Candidate will write spec documents for developers to code against and perform SIT of that code before deploy

Candidate will need to process change control tickets