Sales / Fixed Income / Electronic markets/Trading / Buyside / Japanese

Fantastic opportunity to join a dominant leader and player in the fixed income electronic trading marketplace, this is a fast growth trading technology business that has developed not only a strong brand, reputation and client base, importantly an excellent product proposition for both buy and sell-side fixed income participants. This role is targeting clients in the Japanese market.

Experience in and around fixed income is required, this could have been from covering cash, derivatives or credit/rates, any experience in or with electronic trading is highly beneficial although not a pre-requisite, an appreciation or interest in it is needed.

Importantly you will have a strong track record in sales gained from either a financial institution, related technology provider or similar. Fluency in English is needed, fluency in Japanese is also needed. Experience selling to or dealing with the buy-side is highly advantageous.

This is a fantastic business that offers excellent career growth and earning potential. This position will be Tokyo based reporting to the regional Head.

Data & Transformation 

This global exchange is looking for a Programme Manager to join there Data & Transformation organisation. They are looking for a Programme Manager to work on projects within the Data & Analytics’ Transformation portfolio.

What you will be doing:

As the programme Manager you will be managing multiple projects of large size/complexity while working with other senior members of the team to ensure technical & business objectives are achieved.
Delivering software delivery programmes within the restriction of scope, time and cost. 
Being able to manage large programmes while working independently.
Monitoring the costs, timescales and resources. used within the project. 
Consistently updating senior stakeholders around the progress of project and any issues faced. 

What you will bring:

Financial services experience, as well as multiple years experience working on complex large projects.
Project Risk & Staff Management experience.
Previous experience working on Data & Transformation projects within a Global Orgranisation (ideally within financial services)
Experience delivering projects both in waterfall & agile.
Extensive Stakeholder Management experience. 
Must be London based – 2 – 3 days in the office

Are you looking to work in a high performing global team?

My client; a leading global exchange with an impressive brand is looking to onboard a Senior Trading Onboarding Specialist for their Regional team. As a Senior Trading Onboarding Specialist, you will be taking on a technically advanced role performing client facing and non-client facing tasks.

What you will be doing

Provide Level 2 support and training to team members
Configuration, building and setting up new feed session to connect/interconnect clients and brokers/bank portals
Support pre-sales teams with demonstrations and advise on architectural design, functionality, and integration aspects
Buy side/sell side client onboarding

What you bring

Up to 5 years project management experience in L2 FX Trading support role
Degree in Computer Science/Electronics or any IT stream
Experience in networking protocols, VPN, Extranet connectivity understanding of TCP/IP concepts.
Knowledge on Unix, SQL, C, C++, Java
Exposure to OMS/EMS products and Electronic Trading Domain

If this sounds like you, please forward your updated resume to [email protected] and let’s get on call for a confidential discussion!

Are you looking to join a vibrant team? EC1 Partners are working closely with a leading eFX company looking to hire an Account Manager to join their growing team, supporting the largest, most complex Hedge Funds and Asset Managers across the globe.

What will you be doing

Acting as an Account Manager for existing clients within the buy-side market
Accelerating client satisfaction and looking for strategic opportunities to improve both revenues and operational processes
Collaborate with the sales team, product and risk to ensure client requirements are met

What you bring

Substantial Client Coverage and Account Management skills
A degree level education (or equivalent experience)
Demonstratable eFX experience and knowledge of the eFX markets
Detailed understanding of eFX technology used by buy-side clients

EC1 Partners are exclusively partnered with a global fintech leader who are in search for an Lead C# Developer to sit within their Data & Analytics division.

You will be required to provide technical expertise, ownership, and responsibilities in end-to-end IT project delivery. You will be leading a small lean agile team of developers and should have a solid understanding on multi-threading, microservices, and application architecture. You should also have an understanding on authentication, containerization and basic cloud principles.

Job duties:

Analyse, design, develop, test and maintain software at a level which sets standards for others to follow
Provide support to end users
Assist other team members with planning and estimation
Effective communication with Global Analytics management, and Analytics teams in other regions
Effective communication with users, brokers, and stakeholders globally
Manage a small team of skilled software developers

Risk Responsibilities

Ensure that you understand the risks and controls on your department; what could go wrong, what controls you have to prevent/detect or contain these.

Ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility;
Report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as described in the policy;
Escalate risk events immediately and log them within 24 hours using the risk event capture form on the intranet;
Provide input if requested to the Risk and Control Self-Assessment process, scenario analysis, ‘Deep Dive’ reviews and any other risk management processes, as required.

Experience

Essential: Experienced in C# software development, and related technologies, including .Net Core
Essential: Experienced in the Software Development Life Cycle
Essential: Experienced in writing testable software
Essential: Some experience of AWS Cloud technologies (S3, EKS, MSK, SQS, etc.)
Essential: Experienced in working with containers (Docker)
Desirable: Experience of managing software complexity

Skills

Proficient in using .NET Framework and .NET core
Solid knowledge of concurrency patterns
Ability to write clean, readable code
Strong in Object Orientated Programming, Design Patterns and SOLID principles
Proficient with Test Driven Development including Unit and Integration testing
Proficient with code versioning in Git
Familiarity with Continuous Integration ideally with TFS/GitLab
Familiarity with databases such as MS SQL Server and or Oracle (or AWS managed DBs, e.g. DynamoDB, etc.)

Innovative

Open to innovative ideas/ experiences and ability to create new ideas, approaches or insights
Seeks opportunities for improvements
Handles situations and problems with innovation and creativity

EC1 Partners are working closely with an E-Trading SAAS firm who are in search for a Senior Algorithmic QA Automation Test Engineer to be part of their dynamic, lean and agile Algo team.

You will focus on managing and executing automated test suites for their low-latency algo trading platform covering trading algorithms, quantitative analytics, reference data, and other electronic trading services globally.

Responsibilities:

Design, write, execute and maintain automated test cases for algorithmic trading platform and other trading-related applications and services.
Provide adequate test coverage based on specifications including trading algorithms, key risk controls, models and various features used by the trading platform.
Manage the testing cycle for regional algorithmic trading platform releases, identify and manage risks associated with changes, contribute to the design and improvement of the automation testing framework and offer insights and recommendations to improve the automation toolset.
Collaborate with stakeholders (business analysts, developers, product owners, quants, end-users, and others) to understand and define business requirements and acceptance criteria; cultivate a deep knowledge of the algorithmic trading products.
Contribute to 3rd line development support as part of a support rota.

Skills and Experience

Knowledge of darkpool & working in an Algo trading environment
Deep knowledge of equities markets and trading, particularly in UK/EMEA markets, ideally in the context of algorithmic trading.
Strong understanding of the agency brokerage business model and electronic trading, ideally in the context of algorithmic trading.
Deep knowledge of regulatory considerations for algorithmic trading in UK/EMEA including MiFIDII.
Solid experience of Dark Aggregation, Execution Algorithms, Smart Order Routing and market data.
Strong understanding of order management and use of OMS/EMS platforms such as InfoReach, Fidessa.
Strong experience of algo testing requirements under MiFIDII including key risk controls, disorderly market conditions, kill switch and stress tests.
Understanding of product development lifecycles and iterative development methods with a commitment to quality and excellence.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to communicate and document testing plans and results.
Experience with CI/CD and automated testing frameworks like JBehave/Cucumber/JUnit, ideally in the context of algorithmic trading.
Experience with programming languages such as Java is a plus.
Experience with source control systems such as Git/Perforce and DevOps tooling such as Bamboo/GitLab.

Inclusive Foreign Exchange trading solution offering services all-in-one platform covers the complete FX trade cycle, is built for turn-key activation and is flexible to enable customers’ unique requirements & strategies.

As FX Support Analyst you will be the main point of contact for our clients. You will both support the Company suite of software and interact with our clients to understand their needs, design technical solutions and implement them, alongside the Company development team.

Responsibilities:

Global Support

Provide support to Company clients globally and advise on questions and queries.
Monitor Clients systems so that we can provide proactive / real time alerting & updates internally and externally.
Investigate issues to resolution, involving other parties and escalating where needed.
Identify steps to reproduce issues and replicate them by setting up VMs and replaying FIX messages.

Relationship Management

Liaise with clients to interpret queries for root cause analysis and propose appropriate workarounds and solutions.
Act as primary technical contact to allocated clients for new requirements, support and project deliverables.

Implementation & Design

Formulate business and workflow requirements into technical solutions
Use technical design and development skills to resolve complex problems across many different platforms
Work alongside developers throughout the firm to design, build, test, and deploy custom solutions
Implement and test new FX liquidity providers onto the Company liquidity aggregation engine
Work with teams across the firm to continually improve the product, and drive future innovation

Requirements

Technical knowledge and prior exposure to Linux and Shell-scripting.
Basic technical knowledge and a desire to improve in areas such as C++, Java, SQL and Python
Knowledge of FIX protocol.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to communicate confidently and concisely to both business and technical clients and colleagues.
Desire to learn both the business and technical aspects of the financial capital markets in which Company operates.