Oracle & Linux Systems Engineer / Application Engineer - Equities Trading System

Responsibilities:

·        Analyse, design, develop, implement, and support Equities Trading systems within a Banking and Finance environment.

·        Participate in end‑to‑end system solution delivery, including:

o   Business and technical requirement analysis

o   Functional and technical design

o   System integration and interfacing

o   Development and configuration

o   Unit testing, SIT, UAT, and production deployment

o   Post‑implementation and production support

·        Design, implement, and support FIX protocol based interfaces for order routing, execution, and trade processing.

·        Implement and support message‑driven architectures using Message Queue (MQ) platforms for internal and external system integration.

·        Provide hands‑on support for systems running on Oracle databases and Linux/Unix platforms.

·        Support equities trading functions including order management, executions, trade capture, confirmations, and downstream settlement feeds.

·        Work closely with business users, application vendors, project managers, and infrastructure teams to deliver stable and scalable solutions.

·        Perform production support, troubleshooting, root‑cause analysis, and performance tuning for trading systems.

·        Ensure all solutions comply with security, risk, regulatory, and architectural standards.

·        Prepare and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and handover materials.

Requirements:

.Education

·        Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Experience

·        Minimum 6 years of relevant experience in Banking & Financial Services IT.

·        Proven experience in implementing and supporting Equities Trading systems in a front‑office or market technology environment.

·        Strong experience with FIX Protocol (e.g. FIX 4.x / FIX 5.x) for trading and market connectivity.

• Strong technical and platform expertise in Equity/FX trading systems, market data platforms, SaaS/cloud implementations, and mobile application development.
• Hands-on experience with MS SQL Server, Oracle, Windows, Linux, shell scripting, messaging queues, JBoss, Apache, Tomcat, Java, J2EE, JSP/Servlets, FIX messaging, CORBA, React Native, iOS/Android deployment, DevOps tools (Jenkins, Bitbucket), and scheduling tools (Control-M).
• Skilled in setting up applications within newly provisioned environments, including network, storage, agents, databases, Aldon, Control-M, Splunk, Geneos, and other monitoring tools. 

·        Hands‑on experience with Message Queue (MQ) technologies for system integration.

·        Solid working experience with Oracle databases (SQL, performance tuning, data analysis).

·        Strong exposure to Linux / Unix environments, including shell scripting.

Essential Skills & Competencies

·        Strong understanding of the equities trading lifecycle and capital markets operations.

·        Experience supporting mission‑critical, low‑latency trading applications.

·        Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a high‑pressure trading environment.

·        Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and troubleshooting skills.

·        Good communication skills for interaction with both technical and business stakeholders.

Advantage / Preferred

·        Knowledge or hands‑on experience with DZH Equities Trading systems or any other brokerage trading applications in the market will be a strong advantage.

·        Experience working with vendor trading platforms and market data feeds.

Prior exposure to regional or global trading system rollouts.

Key Domain/ Technical Skills:

·        Database & Platform: Oracle, Linux / Unix, Shell Scripting

·        Integration & Middleware: FIX Protocol, Message Queue (MQ)

·        Domain: Equities Trading Systems, Capital Markets Technology