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Ld IT Business Analyst
  • Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
Ld IT Business Analyst
Description
CME Group is the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it, all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Joining our company gives you the opportunity to make a difference in global financial markets every day, whether you work on our industry-leading technology and risk management services, our benchmark products or in a corporate services area that helps us serve our customers better. We're small enough for you and your contributions to be known. But big enough for your ideas to make an impact. The pace is dynamic, the work is unlike any other firm in the business, and the possibilities are endless. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we're looking for more.

To learn more about what a career at CME Group can offer you, visit us at  www.wherefuturesaremade.com .

The selected candidate will join the CME Engineering and Execution team in Belfast as a Lead Business Analyst, initially supporting the CME POST-TRADE Services Team.

CME Belfast team is a high performing group of individuals that deliver on a broad range of functions including systems/business analysis, software development and quality assurance services.   

CME POST-TRADE Services is our strategic back office solution. This provides third party clearing and straight through processing solutions to customers, across all markets. Trades may be cleared through a range of third party vendors, in both US and Europe. Customers are provided capabilities to review and query trades executed through CME on a real-time basis, through both API's and a portal. The API supports differing formats through adapters including Restful FIXML, FIX 4.4,  Email and TOF. Customers then feed their own internal risk systems from the STP API functionality. CME STP is developed in Java, utilises a range of technologies, including Redis, MQ, Kafka, Oracle and the portal is HTML5/JavaScript based.

Ld IT Business Analyst acts as a primary interface w/ business & partners w/ the dev. teams to provide an integrated solution across domains. For a primary domain, s/he is responsible from the initial business request, impact analysis, & prioritization thru detailed analysis, design, & solution implementation. Often serving as analysis project lead on large projects or coach junior analysts.

Principal Accountabilities:
  • Analysis Planning, Monitoring, and Communication: Responsible for driving the analysis planning, analysis approach, and requirements management. Often serves as a project lead. Contributes to a primary domain, while managing and delegating analysis work for other analysts on the project.
  • Detailed Analysis: Responsible for performing detailed analysis activities such as detailed requirements, user stories, interface specs, UI specs, and report specs. Often serves as a project lead. Contributes to a primary domain, while managing and delegating analysis work for other analysts on the project.
  • Elicitation: Responsible for leading the elicitation sessions, story-boarding, prototyping, and analysis. Often serves as a project lead. Provides direction to other analysts on the tools and techniques required for the project.
  • Impact Analysis: Responsible for or contributing to the business need/case definition; Solicited for input on or provides contributions to the budget analysis or impact assessment for a primary domain; Defines the project feature set with high level requirements.
  • Knowledge Management: Contributes to and manages the knowledge base for a primary domain, including both project artifacts and living artifacts. Seen as a go-to person.
  • Leadership: Often responsible for coaching colleagues on the knowledge, skills, and abilities to be successful.
  • Solution Assessment and Validation: Partners with QA on testing strategy and test plan reviews; reviews the logical and physical design; Leads and facilitates user acceptance testing.

Essential Criteria
  • Bachelor's degree (with honours) or equivalent/better strongly preferred, but substantial relevant experience could substitute.
  • Significant experience in leading business or systems analysis efforts and/or teams, providing functional oversight to projects.
  • Strong knowledge and experience of SDLC methodologies; agile is a big advantage.
  • Ability to understand and absorb business & technology concepts quickly.
  • Excellent problem solving skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience working with customer facing applications (GUI'S, API's)
  • Performs tasks independently and effectively, meeting the stakeholder needs
  • Analyzes high priority action items, identifies next steps, commits to next steps
  • Ability to work with individuals at all levels within and outside the organization

Desirable Criteria
  • Experience of writing user stories and epic in a story-driven, agile environment.
  • Prior experience using Confluence, JIRA, or other Atlassian tools.
  • Experience in Capital Markets, namely in regulation, compliance, or operational risk.
  • Knowledge of Dodd Frank and/or EMIR regulation.
  • Knowledge of Data capture and distribution systems
  • Experience of cloud technologies - AWS and or Google.

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Ld IT Business Analyst
  • Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
Ld IT Business Analyst
Description
CME Group is the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it, all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Joining our company gives you the opportunity to make a difference in global financial markets every day, whether you work on our industry-leading technology and risk management services, our benchmark products or in a corporate services area that helps us serve our customers better. We're small enough for you and your contributions to be known. But big enough for your ideas to make an impact. The pace is dynamic, the work is unlike any other firm in the business, and the possibilities are endless. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we're looking for more.

To learn more about what a career at CME Group can offer you, visit us at  www.wherefuturesaremade.com .

The selected candidate will join the CME Engineering and Execution team in Belfast as a Lead Business Analyst, initially supporting the CME POST-TRADE Services Team.

CME Belfast team is a high performing group of individuals that deliver on a broad range of functions including systems/business analysis, software development and quality assurance services.   

CME POST-TRADE Services is our strategic back office solution. This provides third party clearing and straight through processing solutions to customers, across all markets. Trades may be cleared through a range of third party vendors, in both US and Europe. Customers are provided capabilities to review and query trades executed through CME on a real-time basis, through both API's and a portal. The API supports differing formats through adapters including Restful FIXML, FIX 4.4,  Email and TOF. Customers then feed their own internal risk systems from the STP API functionality. CME STP is developed in Java, utilises a range of technologies, including Redis, MQ, Kafka, Oracle and the portal is HTML5/JavaScript based.

Ld IT Business Analyst acts as a primary interface w/ business & partners w/ the dev. teams to provide an integrated solution across domains. For a primary domain, s/he is responsible from the initial business request, impact analysis, & prioritization thru detailed analysis, design, & solution implementation. Often serving as analysis project lead on large projects or coach junior analysts.

Principal Accountabilities:
  • Analysis Planning, Monitoring, and Communication: Responsible for driving the analysis planning, analysis approach, and requirements management. Often serves as a project lead. Contributes to a primary domain, while managing and delegating analysis work for other analysts on the project.
  • Detailed Analysis: Responsible for performing detailed analysis activities such as detailed requirements, user stories, interface specs, UI specs, and report specs. Often serves as a project lead. Contributes to a primary domain, while managing and delegating analysis work for other analysts on the project.
  • Elicitation: Responsible for leading the elicitation sessions, story-boarding, prototyping, and analysis. Often serves as a project lead. Provides direction to other analysts on the tools and techniques required for the project.
  • Impact Analysis: Responsible for or contributing to the business need/case definition; Solicited for input on or provides contributions to the budget analysis or impact assessment for a primary domain; Defines the project feature set with high level requirements.
  • Knowledge Management: Contributes to and manages the knowledge base for a primary domain, including both project artifacts and living artifacts. Seen as a go-to person.
  • Leadership: Often responsible for coaching colleagues on the knowledge, skills, and abilities to be successful.
  • Solution Assessment and Validation: Partners with QA on testing strategy and test plan reviews; reviews the logical and physical design; Leads and facilitates user acceptance testing.

Essential Criteria
  • Bachelor's degree (with honours) or equivalent/better strongly preferred, but substantial relevant experience could substitute.
  • Significant experience in leading business or systems analysis efforts and/or teams, providing functional oversight to projects.
  • Strong knowledge and experience of SDLC methodologies; agile is a big advantage.
  • Ability to understand and absorb business & technology concepts quickly.
  • Excellent problem solving skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience working with customer facing applications (GUI'S, API's)
  • Performs tasks independently and effectively, meeting the stakeholder needs
  • Analyzes high priority action items, identifies next steps, commits to next steps
  • Ability to work with individuals at all levels within and outside the organization

Desirable Criteria
  • Experience of writing user stories and epic in a story-driven, agile environment.
  • Prior experience using Confluence, JIRA, or other Atlassian tools.
  • Experience in Capital Markets, namely in regulation, compliance, or operational risk.
  • Knowledge of Dodd Frank and/or EMIR regulation.
  • Knowledge of Data capture and distribution systems
  • Experience of cloud technologies - AWS and or Google.

For EU Residents, the Candidate Privacy Policy can be found here.

eFX Client Services / Technical App Support Analyst, AVP
  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
eFX Client Services / Technical App Support Analyst, AVP
eFX Client Services / Technical App Support Analyst, AVP
Location: London

What we are looking for:
State Street Global Markets is looking for a talented Foreign Exchange (FX) IT professional for the role of FX Trade Services Group to join State Street's world class IT organization as part of a multiyear strategic growth initiative focused on maximizing market share growth, expanding into emerging FX markets, and developing new products/services
As a Trade Services Group member - the successful candidate will be joining newly created client facing group that aims to enhance our support offering in the following areas:
• Algo Support
• Order Support
• System Onboarding
• Deal inquiry

Why this role is important to us:
The team you will be joining is a part of State Street Global Markets (SSGM). When owners and managers of institutional assets need research, trading, securities lending and innovative portfolio strategies, they turn to SSGM business unit. As our investment research and trading arm, SSGM's number one goal is to enhance and preserve our clients' portfolio values by applying technology, optimizing trading, and linking asset classes and markets across the world.

Join us if making your mark in capital markets industry from day one is a challenge you are up for.

Why you will be responsible for:
  • Support client Onboarding for all external client facing FX products starting from connectivity through production trading.
  • Direct interaction with the external clients to deal with client queries and liaise with appropriate internal team to get resolution
  • Monitor and support eFX applications and resolve/escalate any production issues with help from eFX product and engineering teams.
  • Work alongside the eFX Product and Development teams to improve the stability of the eFX platform
  • Ensure that operating procedures are strictly followed for all onboarding and/or support functions as requirement to comply with internal and external regulations.
  • Ensure that the business unit operates in compliance with internal and external regulations and that escalation procedures are followed
  • Ensure that all procedures, systems and controls are regularly reviewed and in line with the risk profile of the unit
  • Ability to work under pressure with multiple time sensitive tasks at hand.


Individual Contributor
  • Display a culture of individual ownership of tasks to embed a clear individual sense of accountability in performing the role
  • Be a great team player communicating and collaborating with the local team and teams in UK and APAC on a day to day basis.
  • Provide a positive attitude towards learning, commitment, sharing, confidence and a "team first" focus,
  • Ensure that the highest level of the Code of Conduct is displayed in your behaviour
  • Provide appropriate management information as required to support business unit decision making
  • Support the Transformation and Risk Excellence culture within the business
  • Adhere to limits of delegation and escalation procedures required by your manager so that you comply with internal policies and external regulations

What we value:
  • Proficiency in FIX protocol (5+ years)
  • Proficient in Linux
  • Hands on support experience with FX Trading(3+ years)
  • Some experience with querying databases (Oracle) is desirable
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills required

About State Street What we do. State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation we're making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we've been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.
Work, Live and Grow. We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary in locations, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans among other perks. You'll have access to flexible Work Program to help you match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.
Inclusion, Diversity and Social Responsibility. We truly believe our employees' diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspective are a powerful contributor to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and reach their maximum potential while adding value to both our organization and our clients. We warmly welcome the candidates of diverse origin, background, ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and personality. Another fundamental value at State Street is active engagement with our communities around the world, both as a partner and a leader. You will have tools to help balance your professional and personal life, paid volunteer days, matching gift program and access to employee networks that help you stay connected to what matters to you.

State Street is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

eFX Client Services / Technical App Support Analyst, AVP
  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
eFX Client Services / Technical App Support Analyst, AVP
eFX Client Services / Technical App Support Analyst, AVP
Location: London

What we are looking for:
State Street Global Markets is looking for a talented Foreign Exchange (FX) IT professional for the role of FX Trade Services Group to join State Street's world class IT organization as part of a multiyear strategic growth initiative focused on maximizing market share growth, expanding into emerging FX markets, and developing new products/services
As a Trade Services Group member - the successful candidate will be joining newly created client facing group that aims to enhance our support offering in the following areas:
• Algo Support
• Order Support
• System Onboarding
• Deal inquiry

Why this role is important to us:
The team you will be joining is a part of State Street Global Markets (SSGM). When owners and managers of institutional assets need research, trading, securities lending and innovative portfolio strategies, they turn to SSGM business unit. As our investment research and trading arm, SSGM's number one goal is to enhance and preserve our clients' portfolio values by applying technology, optimizing trading, and linking asset classes and markets across the world.

Join us if making your mark in capital markets industry from day one is a challenge you are up for.

Why you will be responsible for:
  • Support client Onboarding for all external client facing FX products starting from connectivity through production trading.
  • Direct interaction with the external clients to deal with client queries and liaise with appropriate internal team to get resolution
  • Monitor and support eFX applications and resolve/escalate any production issues with help from eFX product and engineering teams.
  • Work alongside the eFX Product and Development teams to improve the stability of the eFX platform
  • Ensure that operating procedures are strictly followed for all onboarding and/or support functions as requirement to comply with internal and external regulations.
  • Ensure that the business unit operates in compliance with internal and external regulations and that escalation procedures are followed
  • Ensure that all procedures, systems and controls are regularly reviewed and in line with the risk profile of the unit
  • Ability to work under pressure with multiple time sensitive tasks at hand.


Individual Contributor
  • Display a culture of individual ownership of tasks to embed a clear individual sense of accountability in performing the role
  • Be a great team player communicating and collaborating with the local team and teams in UK and APAC on a day to day basis.
  • Provide a positive attitude towards learning, commitment, sharing, confidence and a "team first" focus,
  • Ensure that the highest level of the Code of Conduct is displayed in your behaviour
  • Provide appropriate management information as required to support business unit decision making
  • Support the Transformation and Risk Excellence culture within the business
  • Adhere to limits of delegation and escalation procedures required by your manager so that you comply with internal policies and external regulations

What we value:
  • Proficiency in FIX protocol (5+ years)
  • Proficient in Linux
  • Hands on support experience with FX Trading(3+ years)
  • Some experience with querying databases (Oracle) is desirable
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills required

About State Street What we do. State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation we're making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we've been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.
Work, Live and Grow. We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary in locations, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans among other perks. You'll have access to flexible Work Program to help you match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.
Inclusion, Diversity and Social Responsibility. We truly believe our employees' diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspective are a powerful contributor to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and reach their maximum potential while adding value to both our organization and our clients. We warmly welcome the candidates of diverse origin, background, ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and personality. Another fundamental value at State Street is active engagement with our communities around the world, both as a partner and a leader. You will have tools to help balance your professional and personal life, paid volunteer days, matching gift program and access to employee networks that help you stay connected to what matters to you.

State Street is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Trade Management BA - (Contract) - - 600pd - 12 Months
  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • £500 - £600 per day +
    • Contract
  • 10 Mar 2020

Key Responsibilities

  • Build strong relationships with all business stakeholders, collaborate on requirements and ensure that the technology strategy is aligned with business goals and strategy
  • Establish excellent communication channels with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Actively participate in the project delivery life-cycle including agile and iterative processes and develop documentation such as system user guides and business process & procedures
  • Responsible for the business analysis function within the project, working collaboratively with the other assigned BAs and any other stakeholders to deliver the required functionality for dealing and trade management

Job Specific Competencies

  • In-depth knowledge of order execution through to trade reporting across all asset classes including OTCs
  • Knowledge of pre/post trade compliance is a must
  • An understand of the full trade lifecycle including matching, confirmation, settlement
  • Experience of a buy side market leading OMS e.g. Aladdin, Charles River
  • Hands-on experience of electronic trading platforms and FIX messaging protocol would be preferable
  • Understanding of different allocation methodologies implemented in Asset Management businesses
  • Extensive knowledge of TCA and Execution Quality reporting
  • An understanding of Market Abuse monitoring would be beneficial
  • Exceptional knowledge of Asset Management business process, workflows and business process re-engineering

To find out more about Huxley, please visit www.huxley.com

Huxley, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy | Registered office | 1st Floor, 75 King William Street, London, EC4N 7BE, United Kingdom | Partnership Number | OC387148 England and Wales

Trade Management BA - (Contract) - - 600pd - 12 Months
  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • £500 - £600 per day +
    • Contract
  • 10 Mar 2020

Key Responsibilities

  • Build strong relationships with all business stakeholders, collaborate on requirements and ensure that the technology strategy is aligned with business goals and strategy
  • Establish excellent communication channels with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Actively participate in the project delivery life-cycle including agile and iterative processes and develop documentation such as system user guides and business process & procedures
  • Responsible for the business analysis function within the project, working collaboratively with the other assigned BAs and any other stakeholders to deliver the required functionality for dealing and trade management

Job Specific Competencies

  • In-depth knowledge of order execution through to trade reporting across all asset classes including OTCs
  • Knowledge of pre/post trade compliance is a must
  • An understand of the full trade lifecycle including matching, confirmation, settlement
  • Experience of a buy side market leading OMS e.g. Aladdin, Charles River
  • Hands-on experience of electronic trading platforms and FIX messaging protocol would be preferable
  • Understanding of different allocation methodologies implemented in Asset Management businesses
  • Extensive knowledge of TCA and Execution Quality reporting
  • An understanding of Market Abuse monitoring would be beneficial
  • Exceptional knowledge of Asset Management business process, workflows and business process re-engineering

To find out more about Huxley, please visit www.huxley.com

Huxley, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy | Registered office | 1st Floor, 75 King William Street, London, EC4N 7BE, United Kingdom | Partnership Number | OC387148 England and Wales

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
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.

Principal Software Engineer
  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
Principal Software Engineer
Department overview

The Financial Markets division with IHS Markit consists of the majority of the legacy Markit businesses which includes a relavtively recent acquisition in the FX space called DealHub. DealHub is an important part of our growth strategy for Financial Markets and in particular FX. The hope is to consolidate DealHub's

post trade business whilst growing its trading, hedging and pricing capabilities to capture Tier2 and below institutions' business.

Position summary

As a Senior C++ Developer you will work throughout the full development lifecycle to create scalable, fault tolerant and secure code. Keeping up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies, you will devise elegant solutions for huge technical challenges. You can become part of the strategic changes that are happening within the team during a period of growth.

Duties & accountabilities
  • Develop and maintain server side applications primarily in C++.
  • Design, develop and maintain SQL stored procedures. Requires knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server including database design, management principles, structure modification and performance tuning.
  • Work as part of an agile development team to design, estimate, develop and implement software solutions that satisfy the business requirements.
  • Manage code using version control systems.
  • Handle deployment of application and code library updates to application servers following company change management policies and procedures.
  • Provide support for applications owned by the team and act as point of contact for the team.
  • Research and resolve client-reported issues.
  • Analyse application performance, research performance issues, and optimize objects managed by the team.
  • Continuously expand knowledge in area of specialization. Use of continuous integration.
  • Perform other duties as required.


Business competencies

Education and experience
  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science, related field, and/or equivalent work experience.
  • A strong understanding of Microsoft C++ with extensive experience, in addition to STL, TDD, BDD and DDD. Python is a big plus
  • A Financial engineering qualification will be a significant bonus.


Commercial awareness
  • Real-time event processing background and high-throughput optimization skills and experience with concurrent / parallel execution.
  • Experience in optimising code for low latency within the pricing domain. Exposure to the FIX protocol, pre and post trade is a big advantage.
  • This role will utilise your knowledge in middleware development. Successful and dependable deployment is on our radar, so competency in this area usin
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.

Principal Software Engineer
  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
Principal Software Engineer
Department overview

The Financial Markets division with IHS Markit consists of the majority of the legacy Markit businesses which includes a relavtively recent acquisition in the FX space called DealHub. DealHub is an important part of our growth strategy for Financial Markets and in particular FX. The hope is to consolidate DealHub's

post trade business whilst growing its trading, hedging and pricing capabilities to capture Tier2 and below institutions' business.

Position summary

As a Senior C++ Developer you will work throughout the full development lifecycle to create scalable, fault tolerant and secure code. Keeping up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies, you will devise elegant solutions for huge technical challenges. You can become part of the strategic changes that are happening within the team during a period of growth.

Duties & accountabilities
  • Develop and maintain server side applications primarily in C++.
  • Design, develop and maintain SQL stored procedures. Requires knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server including database design, management principles, structure modification and performance tuning.
  • Work as part of an agile development team to design, estimate, develop and implement software solutions that satisfy the business requirements.
  • Manage code using version control systems.
  • Handle deployment of application and code library updates to application servers following company change management policies and procedures.
  • Provide support for applications owned by the team and act as point of contact for the team.
  • Research and resolve client-reported issues.
  • Analyse application performance, research performance issues, and optimize objects managed by the team.
  • Continuously expand knowledge in area of specialization. Use of continuous integration.
  • Perform other duties as required.


Business competencies

Education and experience
  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science, related field, and/or equivalent work experience.
  • A strong understanding of Microsoft C++ with extensive experience, in addition to STL, TDD, BDD and DDD. Python is a big plus
  • A Financial engineering qualification will be a significant bonus.


Commercial awareness
  • Real-time event processing background and high-throughput optimization skills and experience with concurrent / parallel execution.
  • Experience in optimising code for low latency within the pricing domain. Exposure to the FIX protocol, pre and post trade is a big advantage.
  • This role will utilise your knowledge in middleware development. Successful and dependable deployment is on our radar, so competency in this area usin
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.