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• Company

  Spot Trading LLC

• Location

  USA-IL-Chicago

• Compensation

  TBD

• Position Type

  Permanent

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  20 Nov 2009

• eFC Ref no

  560902

Job Description:

A Spot Market Data Engineer will be the subject matter expert in the design, administration and support for our Market Data Infrastructure. The right candidate is passionate with a self starter mentality. An entrepreneurial spirit is a requirement and working seamlessly with members in the Technology group is a must. This role is responsible for all infrastructure and operations of real-time market data delivery to the firm and subsequently to traders and trading applications.

For this position previous experience working with and being responsible for Market Data is required. This would include experience with direct exchange feeds, SFTI, Wombat, 29 West and either proprietary or 3rd party middleware systems like Wombat, Activ, Direct Exchange Feeds. The ability to work in a high-pressure environment will also be required.

The Market Data Engineer will be charged with the optimization, performance, capacity planning, and latency monitoring of market data or trading systems using either proprietary or 3rd party tools. Experience with Unix/Linux and scripting would be a big plus for this role.

The role will also require managing relationships with exchange market data departments, vendors (29 West, Bloomberg), traders, developers and various operations groups (Network Infrastructure, Trading Support, Helpdesk).

The ideal candidate will have previous and have the technical understanding and knowledge of market data systems including data specifications, messaging, feed handlers, middleware, networking, hardware, etc.

The engineer will play an active role in the day-to-day support activities, administration and projects associated with the Market Data environment

A team player with an aptitude to use intuition while also complying with team standards. Must have had thorough experience of working in a high-pressure environment. Able to liaise with business as well as technical personnel to produce solutions acceptable to the partnership.

Responsibilities

• Work with technology organization to develop and deliver market data system goals and objective


• Ensure market data systems are functioning at the highest level available and have the maximum resiliency to failure


• Provide second level technical support for market data infrastructure.


• Proactively involved from a hands-on approach in problem solving and engaged proactively to create solutions


• Continuous proactive system performance monitoring of the market data environment utilizing specific monitoring tools (inclusive of latency measurements/monitoring).


• Able to liaise with business as well as technical personnel to produce solutions acceptable to the partnership.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years experience in the trading industry and 2 years of real-time, low-latency market data feeds


• Experience supporting trading applications that require real-time, low-latency market data


• Experience with market data software * feed handlers and middleware


• Familiarity with networking trouble-shooting skills and fundamentals including TCP/IP and multicast communication


• Experience with some of the following data feeds and Option exchanges: NMS, SIAC, OPRA, CTS, BATS, CBOE,


• Experience with US and major European futures, equity and option exchanges


• Experience with Unix or Linux and Perl scripting


• Experience with capacity planning


• Experience with integration testing


• Familiarity with 29 West is a great plus

Education/Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Mathematics


• Low-Latency Market Data, Activ, 29 West, Bloomberg
  
  

Job Keywords: Low-Latency Market Data, Activ, Wombat, Bloomberg, 29 West, Unix, Linux