RMDS Engineers 85-150K NYC CODE RJFJA2745

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PURPOSE   Engineering role on Market Data Infrastructure team. Provide technical direction for quote and trading infrastructure. Knowledge of Unix, Windows,  Networking, Wombat, Reuters RMDS, Bloomberg, Thomson One, Royal Blue and other major marketdata systems. Provide good communication between marketdata users, technology staff and management.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES   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 marketdata. Assess outages to distribute notification to the correct audience.   ·         Provides technical guidance and training to staff members regarding Reuters, Thomason Financial, Bloomberg, Royal Blue and all other marketdata 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.	AUTHORITIES, IMPACT, RISK   ·        Access to Data server room.
	KEY RELATIONSHIPS  Plays an integral role in the deployment of all quote and trading applications; interaction with the project management is key to the success of the project.
JOB SPECIFICATIONS Understanding of Market Data concepts: Datafeeds, stock exchanges and vendor reporting requirements. Knowledge of Fix, STAMP, QIX, SDP, SFTI, ECNs.  Good verbal and written communication skills. Knowledge of basic project management skills. ·         Possess interpersonal skills enabling the incumbent to deal with and relate well with several levels of users and management.     Required:   Knowledge of major marketdata vendor platforms such as Wombat, Reuters RMDS, TIBCO, Bloomberg, Thomson Financial and Inter Dealer Brokers.  Experience with Market data services inventory and cost reconciliation with tools such as MDM, FITS, or GLOW. Knowledge of ECN, FIX trading technologies Knowledge of Direct Exchange feeds Knowledge of Trade Order Management systems Worked with Intel, Sparc, Opteron hardware to support Windows and UNIX operating systems Mastery of shell scripting in bourne shell and perl ·         Management skills- planning, scheduling, organizing and negotiating. Demonstrated competency in crafting efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems.   Preferred: Knowledge of programming languages such as C, C++	WORKING CONDITIONS (Legislative Requirement)   Working conditions requires moderate physical dexterity. The discipline to be very careful when working around live equipment in the data center. Be able to deal with the elevated stress levels during market data outages. The pressures of working in a trading environment.
	TIME ALLOCATION (Provide percentage breakdown of key responsibilities.)   35% is spent on design and engineering new systems. 25% is spent vendor management. 25% is spent on day to day support. 10% is spent documentation. 5% is spent on market data changes as business requirements change.

 

 

 

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