Job Description
Group Overview The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure. Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions. Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions. The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world’s leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform. The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,300 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist. Liquidnet Liquidnet is a leading technology-driven, agency execution specialist that intelligently connects the world’s investors to the world’s investments. Role Overview Liquidnet Americas is looking for a mid-level ‘Front Office Support’ representative to provide top level service to our business and customer base. The role requires an organized and motivated self-starter with an intuitively high-level of customer service, technical expertise to support an expanding business and experience in a similar-sized support operation within a bank, brokerage, or trading platform. Located within the front office and facing-off directly to traders, sales reps, quants, quant developers, the candidate must be comfortable translating business requests into the appropriate technical actions or changes, which will require a solid understanding of listed derivatives and workflows. The successful candidate will act as the first point of contact for urgent queries, troubleshoot system and process issues, and collaborate with trading, sales, and technology teams to deliver timely solutions. The position requires strong knowledge of listed derivatives, exchange rules, and risk protocols. Role Responsibilities Provide daily application support and troubleshooting for traders and clients using proprietary tools, escalating issues to development teams as necessary. Respond to urgent queries from trading desks and clients, ensuring timely escalation and resolution. Analyze and resolve issues related to order routing and trade flow. Identify and resolve technical or operational issues in a complex environment with various trading platforms and architecture; liaise with technology teams for fixes. Provide functional and technical expertise and promote maintainable and quality solutions which includes documenting system requirements and documentation of support run book. Communicate with users regrading application outages and upcoming events like releases and projects. Respond to end users within the timeframe dictated by the severity of the problem, document and track. Manage team communication channels, queues, and mailboxes to ensure timely and prioritized action on requests. Adhere to incident and problem management procedures, analyzing trends and patterns. Assist in product testing and project-related tasks. Contribute to the 'follow the sun' support model by collaborating with global teams in APAC and EMEA. Conduct regional start-of-day health checks to ensure platform processes are operational and all members are connected. Occasionally work weekends for major upgrades or out-of-hours testing. Experience / Competencies: Essential At least 3 years hands-on support of relevant experience within a financial institution (buy-side, sell-side, venue/platform provider) Solid application support experience within a Linux environment Excellent working knowledge of the FIX protocol Excellent understanding of Futures & Options markets and listed derivatives workflows. Automation and scripting experience Proven experience of MSSQL, Oracle and Sybase database environments, including complex query-writing Proven experience of supporting Windows Server environments Experience in troubleshooting network problems: i.e. firewall and routing problems Desired Working knowledge of industry- standard Order Management Systems such as TT, Fidessa Automation and scripting experience (PERL, Python, Powershell, Bash etc) Knowledge of DevOps principles and workflows, including collaboration with Development teams Experience with automation tools (Ansible, Puppet etc) Proven experience in managing cloud-based infrastructure and services, including AWS, Azur