Front Office IT Support Engineer
London Area
Consulting – UK Team /
Permanent contract /
Hybrid
Margo is a Tech Native consultancy covering high value-added IT expertise for the market finance industry. We believe that the smart alliance between complex IT topics and the finance area brings the most challenging topics to our consultants: low latency, multithreading, high data volume…
Joining Margo as an IT consultant, is the promise to be part of a human-sized company with an internal monitoring and tailor-made training policy that assure you to develop your skills.
Its offers are organised around 3 main expertise: IT Support, Rapid Application Development and Software Development.
Margo is seeking a Front Office IT Support Engineer to integrate its teams within a worldwide corporate and investment bank.
Key Responsibilities
- Real-Time settings
- Market data parameters
- Market access performance tuning
- Computation setup
- Incident and change management
- Electronic executions matching
- Deployment of new versions and features
- Bug reporting
- IT projects assistance
Financial products
- Forex
- Equities and derivatives
- Emerging markets
- Commodities
- Risk and PnL
- Credit and rates
- Exchange-traded funds
- Convertible bonds
Skills required
- Programming skills for scripting or small development (Perl/ PHP/ Visual Basic/ Unix Shell)
- Relational database knowledge and proficiency in both Linux and windows environments
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Ability to thrive in a demanding front-office environment
- High motivated team player but also capable of working independently
- Knowledge of financial markets
- IT/Trading support experience
Development prospects
- Team leader: manage a team of several people
- Production engineer: more technical, having more exposure to the code side of things
- Rapid Application Developer with more exposure to development aspects
