Application Support Engineer

6 month rolling contract - Inside IR35 - Investment Banking

Business Area/Dept Overview

The APS F2B Flow (Application Production Support - Front to Booking Flow) department is a global entity providing services to the FX, EQD, Rates and Credit businesses within the Global Market group.

• The EQD team is in charge of providing solutions to EQD traders and sales through their functional expertise of the IT platform (Business Analyst role combined with strong technical knowledge of the application architecture and configurations) while managing production environments as a whole, from platform maintenance, releases deployment, capacity management and incident resolutions, to the implementation of business, regulatory and security driven IT projects across the different entities of the bank and functions (trading, sales, development, compliance, regulatory, business management).
• The EQD business is present in all major hubs (London, Paris, NYK, Tokyo and Hong Kong) and the EQD platform infrastructure hosted internally mainly in those same regions. The EQD business has over 150 traders in more than 15 centres, and is headquartered in London.
• The EQD stack is composed of several components, from importer to position management, from CC calculation to regulatory export, from distributed and resilient message transfer via MQ architecture to low latency messaging protocols like LQ2.
• The stack handles the highest volume of trades within GECD booking systems and prepares for even higher volumes in the years to come, while leveraging on latest technology to enhance end users experience via its newly launched web platform.

Purpose & Scope of role

· Scope: EMEA EQD Trading and Sales support, business and ITO project management, and

production maintenance.

Purpose: This role consists of managing the support of applications for the following desks:

· Index flow

· Emerging markets

· Commodities

· Equity financing

· Flow sales

Duties will include the setting of proprietary softwares for booking, pricing and trading (manual and automaton, market interface) :

· Real-time settings

· Market data parameters

· Market access performance tuning

· Computation setup

Duties will also include electronic executions matching, new releases deployment, bug reporting and new features or

improvements requests to development teams.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.