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OTC Derivatives Business Analyst
  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
OTC Derivatives Business Analyst
The requirement is for a Business Analyst to support the MarkitSERV Trade Processing business. MarkitSERV has an extensive roadmap of priorities critical to the success of the business. Analysts are expected to work across asset classes, however, experience of interest rate and credit markets, clearing workflows, venues and regulatory reporting is necessary. This role includes close cooperation with other Business Analysts and Product Managers in the MarkitSERV business to design and deliver project. Business Analyst will work closely with the multiple teams across the globe, to deliver projects and system changes.

Requirements:
  • 5+ years of relevant professional experience.
  • Prior Financial Services IT experience.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong organisational / coordination skills, strong analysis skills, and strong inter-personal skills.
  • Strong working knowledge of requirements elicitation, structured analysis, stakeholder management, use case definition and other Business Analysis techniques.
  • OTC Derivatives knowledge; interest rates and credit.
  • Strong presentation skills.


Nice to have:
  • Graduate - Bachelor's or Master's Degree preferred.
  • Experience in the financial markets of clearing, venues and regulatory reporting across multiple regimes for OTC derivatives would be strongly desirable.
  • Prior experience of delivering large system projects and system changes (BAU) and exposure to multiple software development delivery methodologies is a distinctive plus.
  • Prior experience with the MarkitWire platform or DSMatch would be desirable.
  • Understanding of XML/DTD and FpmL would be beneficial.
IHS Markit is committed to providing equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws and regulations in any of our locations.

We are proud to provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with IHS Markit and need special assistance or an accommodation to use our website or to apply for a position, please contact or call +1 212 849 0399. Determination on requests for reasonable accommodation are considered on a case-by-case basis. This contact information (email and phone) is intended for application assistance and accommodation requests only. We are unable to accept resumes or provide information about application status through the phone number or email address above. Resumes are only accepted through the online application process, and only qualified candidates will receive consideration and follow-up.

IHS Markit maintains a substance-free workplace; employees may be asked to submit to a drug test (where permitted by law). In addition, as a federal contractor in the United States, the company participates in the E-Verify Program to confirm eligibility to work.

For information please click on the following links:

IHS Markit Business Code of Conduct
Right to Work
EEO is the Law
EEO is the Law Supplement
Pay Transparency Statement Current Colleagues

If you are currently employed by IHS Markit, please apply internally via the Workday internal careers site.

OTC Derivatives Business Analyst
  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
OTC Derivatives Business Analyst
The requirement is for a Business Analyst to support the MarkitSERV Trade Processing business. MarkitSERV has an extensive roadmap of priorities critical to the success of the business. Analysts are expected to work across asset classes, however, experience of interest rate and credit markets, clearing workflows, venues and regulatory reporting is necessary. This role includes close cooperation with other Business Analysts and Product Managers in the MarkitSERV business to design and deliver project. Business Analyst will work closely with the multiple teams across the globe, to deliver projects and system changes.

Requirements:
  • 5+ years of relevant professional experience.
  • Prior Financial Services IT experience.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong organisational / coordination skills, strong analysis skills, and strong inter-personal skills.
  • Strong working knowledge of requirements elicitation, structured analysis, stakeholder management, use case definition and other Business Analysis techniques.
  • OTC Derivatives knowledge; interest rates and credit.
  • Strong presentation skills.


Nice to have:
  • Graduate - Bachelor's or Master's Degree preferred.
  • Experience in the financial markets of clearing, venues and regulatory reporting across multiple regimes for OTC derivatives would be strongly desirable.
  • Prior experience of delivering large system projects and system changes (BAU) and exposure to multiple software development delivery methodologies is a distinctive plus.
  • Prior experience with the MarkitWire platform or DSMatch would be desirable.
  • Understanding of XML/DTD and FpmL would be beneficial.
IHS Markit is committed to providing equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws and regulations in any of our locations.

We are proud to provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with IHS Markit and need special assistance or an accommodation to use our website or to apply for a position, please contact or call +1 212 849 0399. Determination on requests for reasonable accommodation are considered on a case-by-case basis. This contact information (email and phone) is intended for application assistance and accommodation requests only. We are unable to accept resumes or provide information about application status through the phone number or email address above. Resumes are only accepted through the online application process, and only qualified candidates will receive consideration and follow-up.

IHS Markit maintains a substance-free workplace; employees may be asked to submit to a drug test (where permitted by law). In addition, as a federal contractor in the United States, the company participates in the E-Verify Program to confirm eligibility to work.

For information please click on the following links:

IHS Markit Business Code of Conduct
Right to Work
EEO is the Law
EEO is the Law Supplement
Pay Transparency Statement Current Colleagues

If you are currently employed by IHS Markit, please apply internally via the Workday internal careers site.

Systems Engineer / DevOps - FinTech
  • London, England
  • £650 - £750 per day
    • Contract
  • 10 Mar 2020

Systems Engineer / DevOps (Linux Kubernetes Docker Networking). Technologist sought by global financial software house for an initial six month contract at their City based offices.

As a Systems Engineer / DevOps you'll be responsible for building and running large scale, distributed, fault tolerant, low latency applications that combine ultra-low latency performance, the capacity to cope with the busiest trading days during times of turmoil or surprises in the global economy with concrete reliability and integrity whilst undergoing rapid release cycles.

Day-to-day you'll be collaborating with Technical and Business Operations teams on critical issues; assessing the issue, proposing and implementing solutions and partnering with DBA, Network Engineers and Software Developers as needed for the resolution. You'll deploy in-house and 3rd party applications with a focus on automation and hardening and ensure that solutions are secure in partnership with the global security team.

You'll be joining a small team (some US based) and will work fairly autonomously, taking ownership and managing your own time.

Requirements:

*Strong Kubernetes on Docker administration experience
*Strong Linux scripting and application troubleshooting
*Automation scripting skills (e.g. PowerShell, Python, bash)
*Good understanding of Windows OS
*Good working knowledge of traditional networking - able to troubleshoot network issues, interpret packet captures and diagnose connectivity issues
*Experience of working on highly scalable, high performance systems preferably within a trading / financial services environment

Apply now or call to find out more about this Systems Engineer / DevOps contract opportunity.

REF: BB/13981/D/KS/100320_1583830822

Systems Engineer / DevOps - FinTech
  • London, England
  • £650 - £750 per day
    • Contract
  • 10 Mar 2020

Systems Engineer / DevOps (Linux Kubernetes Docker Networking). Technologist sought by global financial software house for an initial six month contract at their City based offices.

As a Systems Engineer / DevOps you'll be responsible for building and running large scale, distributed, fault tolerant, low latency applications that combine ultra-low latency performance, the capacity to cope with the busiest trading days during times of turmoil or surprises in the global economy with concrete reliability and integrity whilst undergoing rapid release cycles.

Day-to-day you'll be collaborating with Technical and Business Operations teams on critical issues; assessing the issue, proposing and implementing solutions and partnering with DBA, Network Engineers and Software Developers as needed for the resolution. You'll deploy in-house and 3rd party applications with a focus on automation and hardening and ensure that solutions are secure in partnership with the global security team.

You'll be joining a small team (some US based) and will work fairly autonomously, taking ownership and managing your own time.

Requirements:

*Strong Kubernetes on Docker administration experience
*Strong Linux scripting and application troubleshooting
*Automation scripting skills (e.g. PowerShell, Python, bash)
*Good understanding of Windows OS
*Good working knowledge of traditional networking - able to troubleshoot network issues, interpret packet captures and diagnose connectivity issues
*Experience of working on highly scalable, high performance systems preferably within a trading / financial services environment

Apply now or call to find out more about this Systems Engineer / DevOps contract opportunity.

REF: BB/13981/D/KS/100320_1583830822

Data Scientist
  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
Data Scientist
The Advanced Analytics team at IHS Markit is looking for a Senior Data Scientist who will support our initiatives to generate actionable insights and build new products from our rich internal data sets. The ideal candidates should have critical thinking skills, a quantitative background and strong experience exploring data sets, a high competency using a variety of analytics tools to build machine learning models. They must have a proven ability to drive business results with data-driven insights and should be comfortable working with a wide range of stakeholders and functional teams covering different industry sectors.

Responsibilities for Data Scientist
  • Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to build proof of concepts for new business solutions.
  • Efficiently explore new data sources and assess data gathering techniques.
  • Help to conceptually frame and refine relevant business questions.
  • Build robust data pipelines.
  • Develop custom machine learning models and algorithms.
  • Coordinate with different functional teams to implement and productionize models whilst monitoring the performance.
  • Communicate findings to different stake holders.


Essential Skills and Qualifications for Data Scientist
  • At least 2 years experience in a Data Science role
  • Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience using statistical computer languages (preferably python or R) to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets.
  • Experience working with data bases (e.g. SQL).
  • Profound knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques (clustering, classification, regression, deep learning) and their real-world advantages/drawbacks.
  • Good knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts (hypothesis testing, Bayesian statistics, properties of distributions) and experience with applications.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordination and communication.
  • Curiosity and research attitude to learn new ideas and techniques.
  • We're looking for someone with a few years working experience in data science.
  • Coding experience (preferably python) to write robust and high standard code; experience with version control (preferably git)


Its a bonus if you also have
  • Finance
  • Deep learning
  • Natural language processing
  • Probabilistic graphical models
  • Numerical optimization
  • Economics
IHS Markit is committed to providing equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws and regulations in any of our locations.

We are proud to provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with IHS Markit and need special assistance or an accommodation to use our website or to apply for a position, please contact or call +1 212 849 0399. Determination on requests for reasonable accommodation are considered on a case-by-case basis. This contact information (email and phone) is intended for application assistance and accommodation requests only. We are unable to accept resumes or provide information about application status through the phone number or email address above. Resumes are only accepted through the online application process, and only qualified candidates will receive consideration and follow-up.

IHS Markit maintains a substance-free workplace. In addition, in the United States, we perform pre-employment drug testing and are required as a federal contractor to participate in the E-Verify Program to confirm eligibility to work.

For information please click on the following links:

IHS Markit Business Code of Conduct
Right to Work
EEO is the Law
EEO is the Law Supplement
Pay Transparency Statement Current Colleagues
If you are currently employed by IHS Markit, please apply internally via the Workday internal careers site.

Data Scientist
  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
Data Scientist
The Advanced Analytics team at IHS Markit is looking for a Senior Data Scientist who will support our initiatives to generate actionable insights and build new products from our rich internal data sets. The ideal candidates should have critical thinking skills, a quantitative background and strong experience exploring data sets, a high competency using a variety of analytics tools to build machine learning models. They must have a proven ability to drive business results with data-driven insights and should be comfortable working with a wide range of stakeholders and functional teams covering different industry sectors.

Responsibilities for Data Scientist
  • Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to build proof of concepts for new business solutions.
  • Efficiently explore new data sources and assess data gathering techniques.
  • Help to conceptually frame and refine relevant business questions.
  • Build robust data pipelines.
  • Develop custom machine learning models and algorithms.
  • Coordinate with different functional teams to implement and productionize models whilst monitoring the performance.
  • Communicate findings to different stake holders.


Essential Skills and Qualifications for Data Scientist
  • At least 2 years experience in a Data Science role
  • Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience using statistical computer languages (preferably python or R) to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets.
  • Experience working with data bases (e.g. SQL).
  • Profound knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques (clustering, classification, regression, deep learning) and their real-world advantages/drawbacks.
  • Good knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts (hypothesis testing, Bayesian statistics, properties of distributions) and experience with applications.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordination and communication.
  • Curiosity and research attitude to learn new ideas and techniques.
  • We're looking for someone with a few years working experience in data science.
  • Coding experience (preferably python) to write robust and high standard code; experience with version control (preferably git)


Its a bonus if you also have
  • Finance
  • Deep learning
  • Natural language processing
  • Probabilistic graphical models
  • Numerical optimization
  • Economics
IHS Markit is committed to providing equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws and regulations in any of our locations.

We are proud to provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with IHS Markit and need special assistance or an accommodation to use our website or to apply for a position, please contact or call +1 212 849 0399. Determination on requests for reasonable accommodation are considered on a case-by-case basis. This contact information (email and phone) is intended for application assistance and accommodation requests only. We are unable to accept resumes or provide information about application status through the phone number or email address above. Resumes are only accepted through the online application process, and only qualified candidates will receive consideration and follow-up.

IHS Markit maintains a substance-free workplace. In addition, in the United States, we perform pre-employment drug testing and are required as a federal contractor to participate in the E-Verify Program to confirm eligibility to work.

For information please click on the following links:

IHS Markit Business Code of Conduct
Right to Work
EEO is the Law
EEO is the Law Supplement
Pay Transparency Statement Current Colleagues
If you are currently employed by IHS Markit, please apply internally via the Workday internal careers site.

DevOps/Cloud Engineer
  • Manchester, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
DevOps/Cloud Engineer
DevOps/Cloud Engineer (AWS, PowerShell) - Manchester Central

Department overview:

EDM is a flexible solution that pulls any data types from multiple sources into a central hub. Customers are able to streamline front, middle and back office operations and create consistent versions of data in a fully audited and transparent environment. EDM enables firms to keep their data decentralised. The central hub simply sources, imports, validates, enriches, aggregates and distributes data across the organisation. EDM's data lineage ensures firms are able to trace back the data. This delivers transparency on where the data came from, who touched the data and what rules were applied.

This department is crucial in delivering on an exciting new growth strategy for the business.

Position summary

The primary function of this DevOps / Cloud role is to support the Managed Services offering - both from a technical and a product perspective. A focus will be on design/implementation/maintenance and troubleshooting of AWS environments and the services implementations. This would entail the creation of new VPC's, networking, integration of products and environments, and the creation and maintenance of operational processes supporting the services.

Success in this role requires very strong system administration skills, an aptitude for distributed systems and attention to minute details. You will require experience of DevOps processes and a deep understanding of the best practices when deploying infrastructure as code.

It will require an individual to own deliverables and see them through to completion.

Duties & accountabilities
  • Oversee daily checks on customer environments to ensure the application is running as desired
  • Must have deep experience with configuration and deployment management in a scripting language. Knowledge of Ansible, AWS cloud formation and DevOps pipelines
  • Deep knowledge of AWS technologies such as EC2, ELB, S3, VPC, EBS, RDS, AMIs, IAM, CloudFormation etc
  • 2 or more years of experience in a highly complex cloud operations environment
  • 2 or more years of experience as Windows 2008 / 2012 systems administrator required
  • MS SQL Server 2012 / 2014 - Standard and Enterprise deployment. High Availability
  • MS Remote Desktop Services - Remote Desktop Gateway and broker
  • 2 or more years PowerShell scripting experience required
  • Version control using GIT
  • Monitor adherence to IHSM Group Security standards
  • Own responsibility for documenting / updating processes and relevant documentation
  • Provide expertise to the Professional Services team when implementing new MS customers
  • Working closing with wider IHSM group AWS and Cloud engineers to provide solutions


Education and Experience
  • Minimum of 3 years' experience working in hosted technologies (DevOps / Cloud)
  • Certified AWS / MS Azure Cloud Engineer or AWS / MS Azure Solutions Implementer
  • Experience in using CloudFormation or equivalent
  • Experience in scripting and automation (use of Ansible or PowerShell will be good)
  • Experience in Cloud implementations
  • Experience of working with hosted systems either in support and/or analysis role
  • Administration of Windows Servers and Services


Desirable:
  • Experience in Financial Services industry
  • Networking and Routing knowledge
  • SQL Server knowledge
IHS Markit is committed to providing equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws and regulations in any of our locations.

We are proud to provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with IHS Markit and need special assistance or an accommodation to use our website or to apply for a position, please contact or call +1 212 849 0399. Determination on requests for reasonable accommodation are considered on a case-by-case basis. This contact information (email and phone) is intended for application assistance and accommodation requests only. We are unable to accept resumes or provide information about application status through the phone number or email address above. Resumes are only accepted through the online application process, and only qualified candidates will receive consideration and follow-up.

IHS Markit maintains a substance-free workplace; employees may be asked to submit to a drug test (where permitted by law). In addition, as a federal contractor in the United States, the company participates in the E-Verify Program to confirm eligibility to work.

For information please click on the following links:

IHS Markit Business Code of Conduct
Right to Work
EEO is the Law
EEO is the Law Supplement
Pay Transparency Statement Current Colleagues

If you are currently employed by IHS Markit, please apply internally via the Workday internal careers site.

DevOps/Cloud Engineer
  • Manchester, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
DevOps/Cloud Engineer
DevOps/Cloud Engineer (AWS, PowerShell) - Manchester Central

Department overview:

EDM is a flexible solution that pulls any data types from multiple sources into a central hub. Customers are able to streamline front, middle and back office operations and create consistent versions of data in a fully audited and transparent environment. EDM enables firms to keep their data decentralised. The central hub simply sources, imports, validates, enriches, aggregates and distributes data across the organisation. EDM's data lineage ensures firms are able to trace back the data. This delivers transparency on where the data came from, who touched the data and what rules were applied.

This department is crucial in delivering on an exciting new growth strategy for the business.

Position summary

The primary function of this DevOps / Cloud role is to support the Managed Services offering - both from a technical and a product perspective. A focus will be on design/implementation/maintenance and troubleshooting of AWS environments and the services implementations. This would entail the creation of new VPC's, networking, integration of products and environments, and the creation and maintenance of operational processes supporting the services.

Success in this role requires very strong system administration skills, an aptitude for distributed systems and attention to minute details. You will require experience of DevOps processes and a deep understanding of the best practices when deploying infrastructure as code.

It will require an individual to own deliverables and see them through to completion.

Duties & accountabilities
  • Oversee daily checks on customer environments to ensure the application is running as desired
  • Must have deep experience with configuration and deployment management in a scripting language. Knowledge of Ansible, AWS cloud formation and DevOps pipelines
  • Deep knowledge of AWS technologies such as EC2, ELB, S3, VPC, EBS, RDS, AMIs, IAM, CloudFormation etc
  • 2 or more years of experience in a highly complex cloud operations environment
  • 2 or more years of experience as Windows 2008 / 2012 systems administrator required
  • MS SQL Server 2012 / 2014 - Standard and Enterprise deployment. High Availability
  • MS Remote Desktop Services - Remote Desktop Gateway and broker
  • 2 or more years PowerShell scripting experience required
  • Version control using GIT
  • Monitor adherence to IHSM Group Security standards
  • Own responsibility for documenting / updating processes and relevant documentation
  • Provide expertise to the Professional Services team when implementing new MS customers
  • Working closing with wider IHSM group AWS and Cloud engineers to provide solutions


Education and Experience
  • Minimum of 3 years' experience working in hosted technologies (DevOps / Cloud)
  • Certified AWS / MS Azure Cloud Engineer or AWS / MS Azure Solutions Implementer
  • Experience in using CloudFormation or equivalent
  • Experience in scripting and automation (use of Ansible or PowerShell will be good)
  • Experience in Cloud implementations
  • Experience of working with hosted systems either in support and/or analysis role
  • Administration of Windows Servers and Services


Desirable:
  • Experience in Financial Services industry
  • Networking and Routing knowledge
  • SQL Server knowledge
IHS Markit is committed to providing equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws and regulations in any of our locations.

We are proud to provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with IHS Markit and need special assistance or an accommodation to use our website or to apply for a position, please contact or call +1 212 849 0399. Determination on requests for reasonable accommodation are considered on a case-by-case basis. This contact information (email and phone) is intended for application assistance and accommodation requests only. We are unable to accept resumes or provide information about application status through the phone number or email address above. Resumes are only accepted through the online application process, and only qualified candidates will receive consideration and follow-up.

IHS Markit maintains a substance-free workplace; employees may be asked to submit to a drug test (where permitted by law). In addition, as a federal contractor in the United States, the company participates in the E-Verify Program to confirm eligibility to work.

For information please click on the following links:

IHS Markit Business Code of Conduct
Right to Work
EEO is the Law
EEO is the Law Supplement
Pay Transparency Statement Current Colleagues

If you are currently employed by IHS Markit, please apply internally via the Workday internal careers site.

FIX Connectivity Specialist
  • Manchester, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
FIX Connectivity Specialist
Department overview

thinkFolio is a leading provider of portfolio modelling and management tools, compliance and trading functions for asset managers on the buy side. thinkFolio is used globally with the majority of clients currently in the UK.

Position summary

IHS Markit is making considerable investments in the thinkFolio product and is increasing the size of the thinkFolio team. With an expected expansion of the client base globally, additional resources are required, as part of the global thinkFolio team.

Following the launch of the thinkFolio FIX Network (tFN) in 2018 it is imperative that this has dedicated resources to run the operation. As this is a revenue stream in its own right it has been decided to resource this independently so that It is not affected by other strategies applied in the thinkFolio business unit.

FIX is an industry standard used within the financial sector for trade execution, post trade messaging & matching. Whilst it is a specialised area, it is widely used and therefore has a broad coverage. The use of FIX within the thinkFolio application does require detailed business knowledge of the trading process. It is considered that specific thinkFolio application knowledge, whilst useful is not imperative for the candidate.

This role may require some flexibility in work times.

Duties & Accountabilities

  • Responsibility for TFN
    • Responsibility for the thinkFolio FIX Network (tFN).
    • Ensuring all customer networks are monitored for issues. Expediting any problems
    • Expedite customers' requests according to SLAs, inclusive of onboard tFN requests
    • Working closing with AWS and Cloud engineering to provide solutions
  • Onboarding of new third-party integration FIX partners
    • Work with IHSM commercial and strategic alliances teams to provide pre-contract information to third-party integration prospects
    • Ownership of thinkFolio FIX interface specification and test case documentation
    • Ensure FIX third-parties conform to tF specification
    • Schedule FIX certification slots to conform third parties, resulting in project sign-off
    • Document certification test results, logs and update any existing necessary documentation
    • Work with dev to build out simulators, work with QA to automate test cases
    • Periodic re-certification of existing interface to confirm existing functionality and expand new functionality
  • Connectivity BAU work
    • Ownership of technical relationship with third-party FIX partners
    • Ownership of interfaces with legacy strategic FIX Partners
    • Work with internal Pre-Sales/Sales, Support, QA, Managed Service and Product teams to provide:
      • 2nd line support
      • Management of third-party FIX partner FIX lines, GUIs, TLS/SSL encryption files, mandatory upgrades
      • Manage any FIX changes delivered by Product team, notification of customers of any workflow changes
      • Monitoring of any test failures raised by the QA team and expediting resolution


Education and Experience

Required:
  • Minimum 3 years' experience working in financial sector, specifically within trading or transactional processing.
  • Experience of working with FIX preferred, but a broad understanding of trading and execution required
  • Direct experience of trading platforms, EMS's not a requirement, but would be an advantage.
  • Drive to be challenged with new technologies to be learned.
  • An understanding of investment management or trading is advantageous


Personal Impact

  • Adept at building and maintaining trusted and credible relationships with colleagues, customers and partners at all levels and external clients
  • Excellent attention to detail, with ability to clearly communicate the nature of a software enhancement or defect
  • Strong problem solving skills
  • Organized, able to multi-task, and have positive attitude to achieve deadlines
  • Ability to understand the impact of a software defect and make appropriate decisions about the priority of the defect
  • Self-motivated; able to work independently with minimal supervision
  • Excellent documentation skills


Communication
  • Excellent communication and written skills.
  • Happy to work with teams in multiple global locations
  • Represent tFN strategy to customers and third-parties
IHS Markit is committed to providing equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws and regulations in any of our locations.

We are proud to provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with IHS Markit and need special assistance or an accommodation to use our website or to apply for a position, please contact or call +1 212 849 0399. Determination on requests for reasonable accommodation are considered on a case-by-case basis. This contact information (email and phone) is intended for application assistance and accommodation requests only. We are unable to accept resumes or provide information about application status through the phone number or email address above. Resumes are only accepted through the online application process, and only qualified candidates will receive consideration and follow-up.

IHS Markit maintains a substance-free workplace; employees may be asked to submit to a drug test (where permitted by law). In addition, as a federal contractor in the United States, the company participates in the E-Verify Program to confirm eligibility to work.

For information please click on the following links:

IHS Markit Business Code of Conduct
Right to Work
EEO is the Law
EEO is the Law Supplement
Pay Transparency Statement Current Colleagues

If you are currently employed by IHS Markit, please apply internally via the Workday internal careers site.

FIX Connectivity Specialist
  • Manchester, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
FIX Connectivity Specialist
Department overview

thinkFolio is a leading provider of portfolio modelling and management tools, compliance and trading functions for asset managers on the buy side. thinkFolio is used globally with the majority of clients currently in the UK.

Position summary

IHS Markit is making considerable investments in the thinkFolio product and is increasing the size of the thinkFolio team. With an expected expansion of the client base globally, additional resources are required, as part of the global thinkFolio team.

Following the launch of the thinkFolio FIX Network (tFN) in 2018 it is imperative that this has dedicated resources to run the operation. As this is a revenue stream in its own right it has been decided to resource this independently so that It is not affected by other strategies applied in the thinkFolio business unit.

FIX is an industry standard used within the financial sector for trade execution, post trade messaging & matching. Whilst it is a specialised area, it is widely used and therefore has a broad coverage. The use of FIX within the thinkFolio application does require detailed business knowledge of the trading process. It is considered that specific thinkFolio application knowledge, whilst useful is not imperative for the candidate.

This role may require some flexibility in work times.

Duties & Accountabilities

  • Responsibility for TFN
    • Responsibility for the thinkFolio FIX Network (tFN).
    • Ensuring all customer networks are monitored for issues. Expediting any problems
    • Expedite customers' requests according to SLAs, inclusive of onboard tFN requests
    • Working closing with AWS and Cloud engineering to provide solutions
  • Onboarding of new third-party integration FIX partners
    • Work with IHSM commercial and strategic alliances teams to provide pre-contract information to third-party integration prospects
    • Ownership of thinkFolio FIX interface specification and test case documentation
    • Ensure FIX third-parties conform to tF specification
    • Schedule FIX certification slots to conform third parties, resulting in project sign-off
    • Document certification test results, logs and update any existing necessary documentation
    • Work with dev to build out simulators, work with QA to automate test cases
    • Periodic re-certification of existing interface to confirm existing functionality and expand new functionality
  • Connectivity BAU work
    • Ownership of technical relationship with third-party FIX partners
    • Ownership of interfaces with legacy strategic FIX Partners
    • Work with internal Pre-Sales/Sales, Support, QA, Managed Service and Product teams to provide:
      • 2nd line support
      • Management of third-party FIX partner FIX lines, GUIs, TLS/SSL encryption files, mandatory upgrades
      • Manage any FIX changes delivered by Product team, notification of customers of any workflow changes
      • Monitoring of any test failures raised by the QA team and expediting resolution


Education and Experience

Required:
  • Minimum 3 years' experience working in financial sector, specifically within trading or transactional processing.
  • Experience of working with FIX preferred, but a broad understanding of trading and execution required
  • Direct experience of trading platforms, EMS's not a requirement, but would be an advantage.
  • Drive to be challenged with new technologies to be learned.
  • An understanding of investment management or trading is advantageous


Personal Impact

  • Adept at building and maintaining trusted and credible relationships with colleagues, customers and partners at all levels and external clients
  • Excellent attention to detail, with ability to clearly communicate the nature of a software enhancement or defect
  • Strong problem solving skills
  • Organized, able to multi-task, and have positive attitude to achieve deadlines
  • Ability to understand the impact of a software defect and make appropriate decisions about the priority of the defect
  • Self-motivated; able to work independently with minimal supervision
  • Excellent documentation skills


Communication
  • Excellent communication and written skills.
  • Happy to work with teams in multiple global locations
  • Represent tFN strategy to customers and third-parties
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