FX FIX Connectivity Analyst Glasgow, Scotland
Job description
FX FIX Connectivity Analyst
Glasgow
As a Barclays FX FIX Connectivity Analyst, you’ll be joining Market Execution Technology team within Chief Operating Office & Functions area. You’ll be instrumental in implementing, administering, establishing, & maintaining FIX API connections with Barclays FX clients & external vendors. As part of the role the FX FIX team is also required to certify new products and functionality for deployment in a live trading environment. Important secondary functions of the role include being a third line escalation point as a subject matter expert (SME).
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
Working Flexibly
We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.
We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month, or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally can request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.
• Certifying new products and functionality for production / active environment deployment
- Providing expertise as an SME on FIX API connectivity to assist, educate and inform both internal stakeholders and external clients
- Using exceptional communication and organisational skills to coordinate tasks with multiple internal teams
- Recognizing risk and communicating it actively to management and peers
- Engaging and contributing to team knowledge esharing and documentation
- Implementing admin setup configuration and static data changes via GUI or SQL
- Troubleshooting production escalations via UNIX logs or replication through internal testing
- Maintaining the UAT / Test environment, and associated scripts
• A knowledge of FIX Protocol (or other complex API’s), Unix and basic network concepts
- Solid experience in complex enterprise systems or trading/risk systems
- Experience working in either a regulated environment or a controls environment
- A basic and demonstrable knowledge of trading life cycle for FX products
• Prior experience working with FIX protocol
- Detailed knowledge of electronic execution, order management, risk, and settlement
- Scripting experience (Python)
- Experience with SQL
Where will you be working?
Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.
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