Customer Integration and Production Support Engineer
MarketAxess
Singapore
Full Time
Job Description
How You’ll Help Take Us There
Working with new and existing institutional clients and broker-dealers with the implementation/integration of MarketAxess and TRAX-provided APIs for various STP features
Support API integration for various fixed income products - US Investment Grade, Emerging Markets, High Yield, US Agencies, Asset Backed Securities and Credit Default Swaps.
Create and maintain clear and concise technical documentation, aimed at external IT audience.
Work with business analysts, quality assurance teams and developers to design and implement features with client requirements/needs in mind
Continue to build and foster relationships with dealer and client IT teams, engaging them in the design and development of new products/features/services etc
Occasionally, build tools and test harnesses to support the ongoing integration of clients and dealers with the MarketAxess system. General Support Responsibilities Include:
Provide cover to the Live and Test trading systems, ensuring smooth running of trading system servers and services
Form part of the Global support roster to assist in our follow the sun model. Participate in weekend support rosters
Provide technical support to the external Dealer and Client users of the MarketAxess GUI application and other MA products
Provide 2nd line support services for client services and account management teams
Support external users of the API interfaces
Provide networking and connectivity support
Monitoring system servers and ensuring appropriate monitoring is in place
Raise and track issues through the use of the Jira ticketing mechanism.
Answer the Production Support hotline in a professional manner
What We’re Looking For
Someone with industry experience in trade support, integration, development and/or business analyst role.
Understanding of Fixed Income products, order and trade flow and Ecommerce platforms would be beneficial.
Experience and thought leadership in certification is highly desirable. Specifically, automation of certification procedures and installing self-service tools in order to produce operational efficiencies
FIX protocol experience is must
Experience with TCP/IP & networking fundamentals
Good working knowledge of Unix/Linux operating system including user commands, scripting etc.
RDBMS skills (SQL Server and/or Oracle) – ability to read, write and run SQL scripts
Ability to resolve problems and incidents across multiple technology areas
Knowledge of batch scheduling and monitoring software i.e., Control-M & GENEOS would be beneficial
A degree from a recognised university
Analytical and solutions oriented
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, effective at building customer relations
Strong verbal and written communication skills
This is a very externally focused technical role. Candidates must be articulate, have a strong client orientation and show a high sense of urgency towards client demands/needs
Ability to work well under pressure
Promotes a positive ‘Can Do’ attitude
Willing to contribute to out of hours work when needed