For more than 20 years, Talan has been advising companies and administrations, supporting them and implementing their transformation projects in the UK and abroad. With a presence on four continents and a headcount of 5000 consultants, our ambition is to reach the billion turnover by the end of 2024.

The FX Trading Support team is in charge of providing traders and sales with functional help on their applications, especially around pricing calculation, position management, exchange order handling, algo trading, electronic booking and internal order management issues. 
 

• Responsible for global uptime target of 99.9%, across the whole FX platform 

• Coverage of below FX applications production implementation, troubleshooting and monitoring: 

• Market access (connectivity, protocol definition issues, latency analysis) 

• Algorithmic hedging (strategies, orders configuration, OR setup) 

• Algorithmic (GTD, GTC) and OBO trading (stop, limit, call, fixings, linked orders) 

• Pricing (Spot/Outright) 

• Market making gateways (spot/outright/STP trading) 

• Market taking platforms (liquidity sourcing) 

• Position management and integration 

• Booking flow and related coherence cache 

• Client orders management platform 

Good knowledge of FX business and electronic trading principles:

• Spot/Outright pricing, Fixings, VD calculation, CC & AV, Spot push, Rollback/rollover, Fixings, etc.

• Good knowledge of main application failure scenarios in a complex IT architecture, from both functional and technical perspective 

Data querying: 

• SQL Server, Oracle 

OS usage: 

• Windows, UNIX commands 

Scripting: 

• Shell 

• Python 

Market Data mechanisms/ communication protocols / messaging services: 

• RMDS 
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• FIX 

• TOF 

• TCP / UDP 

• TIBCO RV 

• MQ