Trade Support Engineer
CurrentProduction Trade Support:-Sit next to traders on the trade desk to allow full immersion in the trading workflows-Provide level one and level two support of trading system issues affecting your desk-Determine when escalation to on-call teams is necessary-Provide detailed log snippets and summarizations that bring the development team up to speed quickly on the problem without the need for them to conduct a level one / level two analysis themselves-Become proficient in area's trading tools-Document outages in the outage tracking system and follow up with development teams to drive permanent resolutions-Utilize a “fix it twice” mentality to use tactical solutions to get trading systems stable again but then follow up with the strategic fix soon afterTrading Systems Design:-Help define and document feature requests and software bugs-Educate traders on new software features-Proactively address performance improvements/optimizations-Maintain system diagrams w/hardware and software dependencies w/ Trading SystemsOperations (TSO):-Contribute to the design and implementation of trading support workflows to enhance reliability and proactive alertingRelease Management:-Work with Trading Systems Operations (TSO) to schedule software releases for your trading desks, following a risk mitigating phased rollout approach where appropriate.-Communicate to traders when new releases are scheduled