Application Support Analyst III

Software Guidance Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for an Application Support Analyst III for a Contract assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in New York, NY. Responsibilities Provide the best possible production-capable environment for the APS trading system, including all Data Center operation, business continuity set-up, application development, deployment and support. Support Monitoring ensure that the trading platform is stable and works properly (scripts, batches, applications, and infra). Maintenance adapt, improve, stabilize and automate the platform help reduce the human factor and the number of manual interventions. Assistance to the users (traders and researchers). Development Interaction with traders and researchers collect and analyze new ideas, new needs,… Maintenance, improvement of trading application new features, new automatons, enhancement of existing applications, optimization for speed, bug corrections. Implement algorithms in line with Compliance and Regulations (RegNMS, RegSHO,…) Interaction with Market Access teams to ensure proper quote reception and order sending capabilities. Interaction with IT Infra teams to ensure proper functioning of all devices servers, firewalls, switches, database, filer, market, and inter-colo connectivity) Interaction with Middle Office, Back Office to ensure proper accounting of the desk’s positions, feed Power and other BO systems. Interaction with Compliance reporting duty for RegSHO and RegNMS. Required Skills Experience 2-3 years Bachelors in Computer Science or related discipline required, Masters preferred. Ability to quickly resolve issues under pressure. Strong technical problem solving (troubleshooting) skills. Excellent oral communication skills. CC++ and object-oriented programming. Linux. Network programming socket, TCPIP, UDPIP multicast. SQL, Oracle PLSQL. Scripting (Python, bash). Preferred Skills Knowledge in Finance a plus but not a requirement. Knowledge of multi-core architectures and multi-threaded programming. Libraries ACE, BOOST, Qt SGA is a Certified Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) celebrating over thirty years of service to our national client base for both permanent placement and consulting opportunities. For consulting positions, we offer a variety of benefit options including but not limited to health dental insurance, paid vacation, timely payment via direct deposit. SGA accepts transfers of H1 sponsorship for most contracting roles. We are unable to sponsor for Right-to-Hire, Fulltime, or Government roles. All parties authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply for all roles. Only those authorized to work for government entities will be considered for government roles. Please inquire about our referral program if you would like to submit a candidate for any of our open or future job opportunities. SGA is an EEO employer. We encourage Veterans to apply. To view all of our available job postings andor to learn more about SGA please visit us online at www.sgainc.com httpwww.sgainc.com .