Data specialist - Trading Application Support

Company Description

For more than 20 years, Talan has been advising companies and administrations, supporting them and implementing their transformation projects in the UK and abroad. With a presence on four continents and a headcount of 6000 consultants, our ambition is to reach the billion turnover by the end of 2024.

In the UK, Talan count 250 employees on several site, the main being: London, Edinburgh and Chester, Leeds.

Job Description

The FX Trading Support team is in charge of providing traders and sales with functional help on their applications, especially around pricing calculation, position management, exchange order handling, algo trading, electronic booking and internal order management issues. The team core activity is to provide high quality analysis of business and technical issues to traders, and as such requires good IT and analytical skills, fluent English, alongside a strong learning capacity fully support the complex architecture of our trading systems. 

Qualifications

• Responsible for global uptime target of 99.9%, across the whole FX platform 
   
• Coverage of below FX applications production implementation, troubleshooting and monitoring: 

• Market access (connectivity, protocol definition issues, latency analysis) 
   
• Algorithmic hedging (strategies, orders configuration, OR setup) 

• Algorithmic (GTD, GTC) and OBO trading (stop, limit, call, fixings, linked orders) 

•  Pricing (Spot/Outright) 
   
• Market making gateways (spot/outright/STP trading) 
   
• Market taking platforms (liquidity sourcing) 
   
• Position management and integration 
   
• Booking flow and related coherence cache

• Client orders management platform