Production Support Engineer - Selby Jennings

Our client, a leading multi-strategy hedge fund, is seeking a Production Support Engineer to focus on their equities desk. In this role, you will support PMs and senior traders while maintaining and enhancing the firm's front-, middle-, and back-office equities systems. You will also deliver technical solutions to automate, streamline, and integrate their world-class trading platform. The ideal candidate will have experience working on an equities investment or trading desk, with a strong understanding of equity products. They will be comfortable operating in production environments, providing support to front-office stakeholders, and possess solid scripting skills in Python and SQL, alongside knowledge of FIX protocols. Responsibilities: • Support Equities investment staff who leverage a full stack of applications, including Trading, Position, PnL, Risk, Reporting, Research, and compliance systems. • Enhance, support, and maintain the firm's Equity front, middle and back-office systems. • Work as a part of the global Production Engineering team • Proactively engage with PMs, Traders, and Analysts to resolve issues and identify improvement opportunities. • Deliver technical solutions to automate, streamline and integrate using Python, PowerShell & SQL. • Document common support issues, trade flows and procedures on Confluence • Employ AI based solutions to improve upon operational efficiency. Requirements: • 3-5+ years of experience supporting an Equities investment/trading desk within investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers or associated software vendors • A thorough understanding of Equity products e.g. Cash Equities, Futures, Options. Must be able to discuss details with Portfolio Managers, Traders, Analysts, Operations and Risk Managers. • Experience supporting Production environments within an ITIL framework and Development environments using agile methodologies. • Strong troubleshooting and creative problem-solving abilities, including being able to interpret, understand and troubleshoot internally developed systems. • Experience scripting tools in python and/or PowerShell for support purposes • SQL experience across various database implementations, including MSSQL