Infrastructure & Support

Description

Technical Support Manager - Algorithmic Trading - London [City]. Miller Maxwell have been tasked with hiring for an expanding proprietary trading house - market maker in London. Since the client was established in 2001 they have been profitable year on year and have grown significantly, they are renowned for technology innovation and investment. The Algorithmic Technical Support Manager will be part of an growing systematic trading team managing a team of quantitative researchers and developers responsible for the support of the front-office team.

Algorithmic Support Manager will:

• Manage team responsible for owning and monitoring electronic trading applications, infrastructure and network connectivity
• Understand exchange traded markets
• Be responsible for release cycles and act as a technical interface between development and testing teamsOwn and design real0time trading system monitoring tools
• Manage and maintain a suite of middle office tools for analysis of cost, trading, liquidity, margin, brokerage, turnover and expiry
• Manage and support real-time market intelligence tools

The Algorithmic Support Manager will need to have:

• 5 + years commercial experience within an algorithmic support environment
• Have worked for a HFT, hedge fund or Proprietary trading company
• Experience of application development life cycles
• Strong financial services experience - Derivatives, FX, equities, futures, options
• Knowledge of C#, C++ or Python beneficial

This market maker – proprietary trading company are at the forefront of algorithmic trading, their knowledge and depth of experience is second to none. They have a highly skilled team handpicked from the investment banking community and this is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Algorithmic Technical Support Manager to work with peers with extensive financial knowledge. Their investment in technology is expansive moving into 2014.