ION SME

Fantastic opportunity to join a world class banking environment, based in the City of London.Primary Responsibilities* Working with key stakeholders globally to provide trading solutions* Coordination, planning, and execution of changes across proprietary systems, vendor platforms and third-party components supporting the Fixed Income desk* Demonstrating a strong focus on identifying and implementing process enhancements to optimise system performance and elevating user experience* Providing deskside L3 ION/e-trading support (and remote whereappropriate) across Fixed Income including trading/sales desks, back-office and ION platform* Providing L3 support to the production Fixed Income trade flow from execution on market to downstream systems, including BBG TOMS and back-office systems* Liaising with other teams in supporting 'add-on' functionality & up/downstream process flows for the Fixed Income Trading Desk. (e.g. Trade flows, end of day position marking etc.)* Systems configuration: Follow set procedures to configure supported applications according to approved functional requirements. These requirements may form part of the project implementation, or may be part of production support* Maintenance of PRD & DR environment: Be responsible for the working state of PRD & DR environments, ensuring they are fit for useExperience* Extensive experience supporting a live ION Trading environment with live market connectivity for Rates, Credit or Swaps desks with access to trading venues such as MTS, Brokertec, , Bloomberg, Tradeweb, MarketAxess, iSwap, Tradition & EUREX.* Strong experience providing technical support for Fixed Income Desks within an Investment Bank.* Strong experience working with both project team & users.* General understanding of financial markets and products, in particular Fixed Income & Rates.* Strong trouble shooting experience within the ION environment* Familiarity with Bloomberg TOMS for trade & position management*Understanding & prior experience of full end to end cycle for quoting, trading, electronic trade confirmations, settlement, P&L valuations.Technical Knowledge/Skills* Technical knowledge of ION components: - Platform- MMI- MDATA- Pricing (PXE)- Connectivity- Ticketing, Position, & Risk- Trading Tools- RFP Gateways/STP Server- VMO/VMQ* Strong knowledge of:- Fixed Income financial products- Bond Pricing- Hedging- Market connectivity & STP- Refdata- MarkitWire- SWM \ FPML_Converter* Strong knowledge of working on Linux Platforms.* Intermediate knowledge of Sybase + TCL scripting.****Basic knowledge ofTransact SQL, Excel, andVBAExperience in usingBloomberg TOMS & Tradeweb Viewer for tradeentryUse of JIRATesting Experiencesend your cv for more infoTPBN1_UKTJ