About the team

Broadridge Trading Solutions Delivery is dedicated to meeting the needs of the Financial Services Industry, specifically in the Capital Markets segment.  All of our team members are passionate, analytical, and committed to our customers. If you have worked with FIX protocols and you’re interested in a challenging environment with lots of growth opportunity, then this is the place for you.

About the role

We are looking for qualified candidates who enjoy interacting with clients to be practitioners on our electronic trading systems.  You will be working with tier 1 banks in a very dynamic environment. 

We have a defined need for FIX Implementation Engineer with a focus in scripting capabilities, FIX certification, and trouble shooting.  This is not a programming position, but some programming knowledge is needed and will be applied for the position.  We are looking for analysts with a high degree of communication who understand the certification process, can execute certifications, manage certification troubleshooting, and track status.  Analysts should be comfortable working in large certification organizations, navigating log files and troubleshooting in UNIX, and dealing with complex configurations.

(Ability to read code, understand if/for loops, variable definitions, null checks - will be aggressively considered)

Desired Skills and Experience

Technology Experience

• 3 to 8 years of experience in FIX onboarding/implementation
• Experience executing and coordinating connectivity onboarding and certification efforts, and communicating issues and status to management.
• Programming/scripting knowledge
• Knowledge of certification processes and general understanding of overall software development life cycle.
• Experience interfacing with development, testing, deployment and release processes, best practices, and tools to facilitate delivery of high quality and resilient solutions 

General Experience 

• Industry Knowledge
• Core understanding of and experience in equities and futures/options onboarding and certification process
• Understanding of the delivery lifecycle including testing and certification
• Knowledge of the Capital Markets industry and electronic trading flows
• Understanding of equities and futures transactions and the associated FIX messaging implementations, with specific emphasis on onboarding and certification
• Understanding and experience with various certifications including algos
• Knowledge of Perl or other scripting languages a plus

 Client Delivery

• Communicates effectively and encourages open communication
• Problem-solver:  uncovers and understands certifying client needs, identifies root causes of problems, analyzes advantages of one approach vs. another, and develops and implements creative and pragmatic solutions

Personal skills:

• Ability to work in a fast paced environment; to be flexible and learn quickly.
• Ability to multi-task with attention to detail/ prioritize tasks.
• Experience with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Preferred Characteristics

• BA or BS degree in CS, MIS, Computer Information Systems, or a related field

Our cultural identity revolves around:

Treating each other with respect. We communicate in a constructive way, we respect diversity.

Encouraging creativity, innovation, new ideas and being pro-active. We support our employees in exploring new options and trying new technologies, methods and techniques, we seek continual improvement.

Leveraging each other's strengths, we share, collaborate and build on each other's knowledge, we are inclusive, we engage employees at all levels and we value time spent together.

Sharing information at all levels. We are curious and open to cultural differences, we value transparency, we promote an open-door policy: everyone is approachable by all our people, no matter their job title.