Top Tech role: Application Support – Equity Algorithmic Trading Systems

Company Name: Morgan Stanley
Location: London
Job Type: Full Time
Company Profile:
MorganStanley-LogoMorgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm’s employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career – a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.Department Profile:
QAPM provides Quality Assurance and Production Management services to all clients within the Firm. QAPM partners with the development teams to ensure seamless technology delivery to our clients: ICT, MSIM, MSWM Tech, and TIR. QAPM’s goal is to deliver a first-class technology platform by ensuring top-notch service within QA and Production Management. This division will support the evolution of technology platforms and tools, manage and maintain our production plant, and ensure the implementation and adherence to proper operational controls to manage risk.Team Profile:
The algorithmic trading product offering provides internal and client users with a wide range of algorithmic trading strategies including benchmark trading, smart order routing, discretionary strategies and internalisation of flow, covering listed cash equity, derivatives and FX instruments.

Equity Support require a talented individual to join the 5 person team providing 1st – 3rd line support for Morgan Stanley’s Equity Algorithmic trading systems.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Proactive & reactive ready-for-business checks.
  • Proactive & reactive real-time monitoring of processes, connections & trade flows.
  • Investigation of user queries via database queries using raw SQL, log files and process interaction, e.g. order issues, flow breaks, booking issues.
  • Notifying the business unit of system issues or failures and carrying out subsequent incident management and problem management in line with ITIL best practice.
  • System break/fix and user recovery.
  • Escalating problems to level core development and engineering groups in a timely manner.
  • Notifying Compliance in a timely manner of regulatory issues.
  • Liaison with the operations department and controllers where appropriate.
  • Working closely with regional counterparts to build and leverage tools and standardize monitoring procedures.

Skills required (essential):

  • Highly motivated self-starter who is happy working for demanding clients.
  • Trading infrastructure and application support experience (e.g. order management system either in-house or vendor). Dealing with client order queries such as rejects, product data issues, exchange rejects and order manager / order router failures.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a professional ownership of issues.
  • Strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to clearly present technology to a non-technical audience.
  • Understanding of real-time distributed application architectures and experience with message-based protocols (particularly FIX).
  • Technical strengths would include the ability to demonstrate strong knowledge of UNIX / Linux and the ability to use UNIX / Linux utilities to parse log files and diagnose host issues, as well as at least the basic use of a scripting language and preferably competence in a dynamic programming language (e.g. Perl or Python).
  • Good business knowledge of Equities (including the ability to demonstrate an understanding of different instruments and how and where they trade as well as the ability to describe an order book and different order types that can be used).
  • Understanding of the concepts of algorithmic trading, smart order routing and dark pools.
  • ITIL Foundation Qualification

Skills Desired:

  • CISI Certificate in Securities
  • KDB
  • Flex
  • Java Script
  • Perforce or other source control management tool

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential.

 

 

Website: https://ms.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=393309
21/04//2015
Job Ref: 3047382

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