ELECTRONIC TRADING APPLICATION SUPPORT HF

Job description

Company:
Amaris is an independent, international Technologies and Management Consulting Group. Created in 2007, Amaris is already established in over 50 countries and supports 500 clients worldwide throughout their projects’ lifecycle. Our expertise covers 5 areas of innovation: Business and Management, IT/IS, Telecom, Engineering and High Technologies, Biotech and Pharma. With 65 offices across the World, the Group offers proximity support to its clients in all their locations and many opportunities of international careers for employees.
In 2017, Amaris aim to reach a turnover of 180 million euros, 3500 employees and the ability to recruit one new employee every 5 hours. We expect to triple our workforce within the next years and reach an international leader position in independent consulting.
Job Description:
In order to sustain our business evolution in Hong Kong, we are looking for an Electronic Trading application Support.
You will be involved with our client ranks which rank highly its three core activities: Retail Banking, Investment Solutions and Corporate & Investment Banking. The team you will join provides support for the electronic trading platforms, including applications support and market connectivity, used by EQD/Fixed income traders in HK and some smaller sites across APAC.
Following are the activities you will participate in:
- Be responsible for the trading applications of Equities & Derivatives Trading (Cash Equity, Warrant, Future & Options) and Fixed Income on various APAC markets in Windows/Linux platform
- Required to support traders, troubleshoot and diagnose functional and technical issues in the production environment
- Management and tracking of daily production problems and user request; ensure effective and timely resolution and communications to the client; report bugs back to local / overseas development teams.
- Be responsible for handling business-driven or exchange-driven projects
- Conduct system Quality Assurance testing, perform deployment or upgrade of mission critical trading applications and systems.
- Ensure adequate performance and operation of the systems
- monitor the performance / operation, diagnose and address any problems.
- Follow ITIL Application Support methodology to carry out incident escalation and system change management procedures.
- Provide system and process documentation
- Morning / Lunch shift duty, weekend and holiday work are required.
Profile:
- Good business knowledge on cash and derivatives products and market rules
- Experience with system monitoring
- Good technical / scripting knowledge on Linux/Unix environment
- Takes initiative and is results driven
- Strong decision making and analytical skills
- Ability to innovative
- Ability to manage change and complexity with confidence
- Strong team player
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Proficiency in Excel/VBA
- Proficiency with Python in Linux & Windows environments
- Fluent in English
Qualifications and Experience
- University qualification with IT Major
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in trading support
Other Value-added Competencies
- Batch scheduling system
- Knowledge on Fixed income products