FX FIX Connectivity Specialist (VP)
Barclays
Total years of experience :9 years, 10 Months
Administering and provisioning connectivity for clients on BARX FX trading platform, building and maintaining relationships and providing support for new products and APIs as clients expand their connections with the Bank. Working with clients and stakeholders globally, maintaining and managing new infrastructure and roll out of FX market data, execution and post trade services.
Primarily focused on EBS/CME Globex transition, providing technical project management support for
EBS and Brocertec products.
• Working with business and technology teams to deploy API and connectivity solutions
• Facilitating migration of FIX API trading and STP solutions, co-ordinating with product teams,
development, operations, networking and supporting clients through delivery life cycle
• Working with clients, vendors and trading partners in testing, development and certification,
managing client implementation of critical API changes for EBS/Globex and identifying
certification requirements.
• Working with development teams and products to prioritise changes and document client
feedback, assisting with enhancement to client on-boarding workflows.
Working with Connectivity and Integration solutions (CIS) team and Electronic Trading Operations (ETO), managing connectivity, API integration, testing and support services for RHUB, MIFID II regulatory reporting platform, covering pre-trade, execution and post-trade services for buy and sell side clients. Working with product managers, development and implementation teams to integrate clients into strategic regulatory reporting hub (RHUB) platform for pre and post trade transparency, reporting and best executions under MIFID II. Integrating clients via FIX, XML, MQ and CSV feeds for ARM/APA reporting, trade cost analysis and SI forecaster solutions. Working with clients to implement interface into RHUB using FIX/FIXML to comply with various regulatory reporting regimes, covering pre-trade transparency/reporting, post-trade reporting, trade cost analysis and data management. Managing delivery of reports under MIFID II regulatory technical standards (RTS 27/28) for sell side and buy side. Troubleshooting API connectivity, testing and integration issues, daily operational checks, monitoring and alerting for global applications and services. Co-ordinating client migrations and infrastructure upgrades
Part of eCommerce Client Services team, managing integration projects and initiatives for FX Cash/Algo API, FX Options and STP solutions Working with product managers, development and business stakeholders to develop, test and integrate trading APIs across multiple venues, vendors and trading partners. Focus on MIFID II uplift and integration for major trading venues, MTFs and STP vendors Managing FX Algo integration projects with multiple venues and vendors (VWAP, TWAP, Limit, Stop Loss and proprietary algorithms) Managing global migrations of client, internal and external API connections from legacy infrastructure and applications Managing client STP integration and testing for MIFID II uplift
for FX front office and external clients. Working closely with developers and business
stakeholders to manage and resolve application issues and incidents.
• Supporting FX FIX trading platform (UNIX/SQL)
• Resolving FX Algo trading issues (KDB)
• Actively monitoring FX Infrastructure and processes (ITRS GENEOS) and job scheduling systems
(Quartz/Python)
• Managing disaster recovery for vital applications (Database recovery, algo engines) - creating test scripts,
liaising with compliance teams and development to ensure system resilience and timely recovery.
• Weekend work to support critical business initiatives (start of week checks, application rollouts,
infrastructure changes & DR testing)
Member of Global FX & Commodities FIX team under BARX Client Services group. Primarily dealing with FX FIX and Commodities Onboarding and STP solutions for FX Cash/Options. Managing FIX API integration projects for clients/ECNs; FX/Precious Metals Pricing & trading via FOK and algorithmic trading APIs (Take Profit, Trailing Stop/Stop Loss, OCO, VWAP/TWAP, batch orders, FIX ATDL compliance). FIX Trade Capture Reporting, in house STP and vendor STP solutions. Conformance testing and certification of systems under regulatory reporting guidelines (Dodd Frank, EMIR). Pre and post trade allocation via FIX. Liaising with FX Sales, clients & vendors, gathering requirements, UAT setup, testing/development, conformance testing/sign-off, production setup, go-live and handover to front line support teams. Heading regular prioritisation meetings with business stakeholders to ensure efficient pipeline and delivery. First point of contact for senior business management, FX Sales and support teams in EMEA/Americas - advising on FIX API offerings, connectivity solutions and production issues. Managing global strategic operations: system migrations and rollouts, updating and maintaining FIX Rules of Engagement documents for FX pricing & trading and TCR ensuring documents are up to date under new regulations. Auditing global connectivity solutions for increased efficiency and cost rationalization Updating Wiki pages on processes and procedures, connectivity migrations and raising JIRA’s/liaising with development to assist work on bug fixes, enhancements, and changes in tech infrastructure. Liaising with various networks teams to set up low latency cross connects, leased lines and Internet connectivity using SSL encryption.
Worked as part of an agile development team using Scrum methodologies on core product - Cortex - a business
process automation tool with various interfaces, complex event driven process automation and alerting tools and
robotic process automation systems - primarily developed in G2 by Gensym, with C#/Java components.
• Development of core product - adding functionality, enhancements and bug fixes (G2 Gensym, C#)
• Developing proof of concept software, client project implementation and delivery.
• Taking part in Sprint planning meetings, sprint retrospectives and product backlog grooming sessions.
• Collaborating with team and managing tasks using Microsoft Team Foundation Server.
• Development using techniques such TDD/ATDD, continuous integration and test automation.
Part of the FX IT development team dealing with the on-boarding of clients onto FX market making platform, managing testing, connectivity, FIX certification through to production handover. Configuring and deploying FIX Sessions to UAT and production, Conformance testing client FIX API with FIX market making engine. Environment management - maintaining QA/UAT servers ensuring eFX environment is running smoothly. Root-cause analysis - analysing end to end FX process flows from FX pricing to trade booking and execution reports, Providing 2nd/3rd line production support - analysing trade rejections, environment stability and networking issues. Worked on bug fixes and enhancements to FIX gateway code and test harness. Worked on FX Rates Server project- Unit testing core Java server application with multithreading and streaming data (used Mockito/PowerMock frameworks) Stress testing and performance testing of different components using tools such as JRockitMission Control and JConsole. Managed network solutions to clients, involving DMZ setups, SSL encryption and certificate management, VPNs and cross-connect setups. Writing bash scripts to automate processes and deployments for UAT/ production environments. Worked closely with other teams dealing with multiple components, using collaborative tools (JIRA) to raise issues/bugs., Managing software builds using Jenkins/Maven and Subversion for version control. Used agile methodologies and took part in daily stand-ups/scrums. Wrote and updated wiki documentation for projects using Confluence, Collaborated and managed important data & documents with other teams/business using SharePoint.
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