E-trading IT for Equity Markets

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Company Description

Natixis is the international corporate and investment banking, asset management, insurance and financial services arm of Groupe BPCE, the 2nd-largest banking group in France with 31.2 million clients spread over two retail banking networks, Banque Populaire and Caisse d'Epargne.
With more than 17,000 employees, Natixis has a number of areas of expertise that are organized into four main business lines: Asset & Wealth Management, Corporate & Investment Banking, Insurance and Specialized Financial Services.
A global player, Natixis has its own client base of companies, financial institutions and institutional investors as well as the client base of individuals, professionals and small and medium-size businesses of Groupe BPCE's banking networks.
Natixis CIB Asia Pacific provides regional corporate and financial institution clients with tailor-made financing and capital markets solutions as well as access to global financial markets, while supporting the development of Natixis' European and international clients in Asia Pacific

Job Description

Role overview:

Part of a regional team centralized in Hong Kong, he is in charge of connectivity with brokers and regional market gateways and provides advanced users support on trading systems for Equity Markets as well as development skills.

He is also in charge of Market Making platform i.e automatons and pricing setup/maintenance and has strong knowledge of market making environment.

The role is covering technical and functional expertise on the perimeter and requires strong coordination with business lines, BA and other IT teams

Reporting line : Head of IT Equity– APAC

Main Responsibilities:

·  Maintains and supports the regional Market gateways (Japan and Hong Kong) including production support, fault & performance monitoring & preventative maintenance
·  Attends regular IT EP (Exchange participant) meetings and participate in Market Rehearsals.
·  Maintains Horizon platform, monitors its activity & compatibility in-line with Exchanges changes
·  QA Automations and pricer for market making
·  Setup and maintain market making environment
·  Strong ability to react under stress
·  Develop and maintain (i.e coding) controls, check and optimization
·  Manages Market rules and ensure platform compliance including short-sell, restricted lists
·  Provides detailed troubleshooting for downstream STP fed from e-trading platforms
·  Validates and deploys platform GUI/components delivered by Head Office and/or vendor through regression tests, following Head Office guidelines and best practices
·  Reports major bugs found and liaise with third parties to fix them
·  Follows up IT Incidents and IT change management to an auditable level
·  Maintains site documentation and operational procedures to an auditable level

Required Skills/Qualifications/Experience

General skills:

Language:

·  Java or Python or C#
·  SQL
·  Shell script
·  Scala is a plus

OS:

·  Linux

Technical:

·  Market connectivity
·  Market Making

Date de publication:02/08/2019