Senior Application / Systems Engineer – Equities Trading Systems - Part-Time

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:
• Business and technical requirement analysis
• Functional and technical design
• System integration and interfacing
• Development and configuration
• Unit testing, SIT, UAT, and production deployment
• 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

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