Systems Reliability Engineer/Data Support Engineer

TP ICAP operates at the heart of the world's financial, energy and commodities markets.

We are professional intermediaries playing a pivotal role in the world's financial markets, covering FX, Rates, Credit, Equities, Energy & Commodities.

Globally, we are a leading provider of market participants, with execution via a range of regulated venues, covering a full spectrum of over-the-counter (OTC) asset classes. Matching buyers and sellers, we facilitate the development of liquidity and price discovery in these markets and provide insight and context to our clients. We operate a hybrid model where brokers provide business-critical intelligence to clients. It's supplemented by proprietary screens for historical data, analytics and execution functionality.

Our clients include banks, insurance companies, pension and hedge funds, asset managers, energy producers and refiners, as well as risk and compliance managers and charities.

We are known in the market for our Honesty, Integrity and Excellence in the provision of service to our clients. Above all else, we Respect our clients and each other, without bias. Employees are expected to uphold the values and principles of our cultural framework in performance of their job duties.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a skilled Market Data Engineer/Real Time Market Data Support Engineer (Linux and Cloud) ad to join our team and play a key role in managing and optimizing financial real-time market data systems. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in market data feeds, and experience working with financial exchanges and vendors. This role requires expertise in software development, data engineering, and infrastructure to ensure seamless data distribution and availability.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensuring optimal accuracy and timeliness of Data on a real-time basis while
• implementing monitoring tools to detect data issues.
• Collaborating closely with internal teams and businesses units to support market data needs.
• Integrate, normalize, and distribute market data from various internal financial trading systems and third-party providers.
• Optimize data processing pipelines to ensure low-latency and high-throughput performance.
• Monitor and troubleshoot market data issues, ensuring data integrity and system reliability.
• Support and maintain customer real-time market data feeds.
• Support and maintain real-time market data feeds to vendors, exchanges.
• Implement enhancements to market data infrastructure to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Automate data ingestion, processing, and monitoring using scripting and software development best practices.
• Ensure compliance with exchange policies, licensing agreements, and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct capacity planning and performance tuning for market data applications.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of data sources, system architecture, and processes.
• Flexibility to stretch and take challenges
• Communication & Interpersonal skills, a team player.
• Attitude to learn and execute
• Role requires individual to work on weekends or public holidays to support or deploy solutions.
• Resilient under pressure, have a mind-set of continuous improvement and can-do desire to provide excellent service.
• Proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, performance bottlenecks, etc.

Qualifications & Skills Required

• Linux (Red Hat Linux) with Scripting (Bash, Perl, Bash, Tcl)
• Networking (General Concepts: on OSI, TCP/IP, troubleshooting)
• Good to have: AWS Cloud background, RMDS/Refinitiv/LSEG Market Data Distribution Platforms such as: (RMDS - Reuters Market Data Systems or RTDS - Real Time Distribution System
• Good to have: Financial institution background
• Database: SQL background
• Ability to conduct self-learning, pick up new tools and able to be independent with minimal guidance from the project leads/managers