| Position Summary
The position is for a deployment manager
in Deployment and Testing team in Equities
Client Facing Technology. The team is responsible
for implementation of new FIX connections
with new clients who will do electronic
trading business in Equities Cash and Futures
Options with our client in Asia Pacific
region. The team has currently 5 people
located in Tokyo, Hong Kong and India. The
team responsibility includes setting up
new connections in production, testing with
clients, and second line production support.
The candidate will be managing the team.
The candidate will be working closely with
Equities business groups in the region as
well as other IT teams in Client Facing
Technology globally. The candidate must
be a team player with good client orientation,
and needs to have excellent communication
skills, strong project management skills,
and problems solving skills among IT skills
such as FIX, UNIX/Linux, Database, Network,
and also knowledge of Equity Electronic
Trading. As the team needs to be restructured
in order to significantly increase the performance
of processing new connection requests, the
candidate should have strong leadership
and team building skills as well.
Primary Responsibilities/Function:
The successful candidate will possess the
following skills:
• 5 – 10 years of experience
in Equities IT.
• Experience in managing a team of
3 or larger for more than 2 years.
• Experience in supporting real-time
transaction systems in the financial industry,
preferably in Equities Trading.
• Experience in project management
.
• Working knowledge of the FIX protocol
and practical issues surrounding its use.
• Working knowledge of order state
handling for Equities.
• Expertise with Unix and/or Linux
environment, preferably Solaris 8 or later
/ Red Hat. Hand-on skills in Shell scripts.
• Experience in RDBM systems such
as Oracle and/or Sybase and SQL.
• Excellent verbal and written communications
skills. Ability to explain concepts and
ideas clearly and concisely to both business
and development personnel.
• Strong leadership and team building
skills.
Optional Requirements:
• Experience in network technology.
• Experience in system administration.
• Business level Japanese language
skills.
• Experience in application development
projects
• Experience in programming in C++,
Java or C#.
Essential
• Reputable University Degree
• English (Business)
• Japanese (Basic)
Regional travel twice a year and US and/or
UK travel once a year.
|
