Description: Excellent Dublin based Financial Services client is looking for a Market Data Analyst for a permanent role. A competitive salary and benefits package on offer.
Job Summary
We are looking for Market Data analyst to work in a growing, diverse and challenging realtime market data environment. The successful candidate will work alongside our existing market data analyst, to provide expertise in vendor relationship management, cost management, market data compliance and analysis and change management.
The candidate should have a proven track record working in the financial services industry specifically in the market data area. It is essential that the candidate has experience with Market Data entitlements system(s) e.g. DACS or DART, and has experience dealing with exchanges and vendors in the market data space. Market data exchange and vendor compliance reporting is a key function of this role.
The candidate must have extensive knowledge and experience of exchange specific data feeds, and be able to understand and map this to business specific data content and performance requirements. The candidate should also have a good understanding of the trading environment, rules and methodology in use by the major exchanges across Europe and other major global exchanges.
The role will involve working closely with market data engineering, infrastructure engineering teams, application developers, and business users to proactively enhance the market data stability and optimise business performance.
The candidate will liaise regularly with the business and technology teams to provide market data subject matter expertise and to source market data exchange and/or vendor feeds to meet our business requirements. Good interpersonal, communication and task management skills are a must and the candidate must be able to work off his/her own initiative to ensure the market data objectives of the business are met to an expected standard.
Responsibilities include:
- Liaise with business and technology users to understand current and desired market data usage requirements. This may often involve seeking and establishing new business relationships. In these cases, liaise with the business user and relevant internal legal and technology teams to confirm the suitability of the data and intended provisioning, and thereafter to coordinate data procurement.
- Proactively analyse market data announcements, assessing the relevance and impact to our current market data production environment, highlighting impact to the relevant technology and business teams.
- Produce accurate monthly and quarterly market data declaration reports to exchanges and third party vendors, ensuring the organisation meets their regulatory market data compliance obligations. Operational support for the firm's Reuters RMDS services and infrastructure, including monthly or quarterly reporting
- Collaborate with application development and business users to resolve any pricing issues, coming via direct exchange feeds, or market data distribution platforms (e.g. NYSE Technologies, RMDS)
- Manage on-going relationships with vendors, to understand impact and prerequisites of Exchange driven changes, work with pre-sales on new Enterprise solutions, and escalate any production impacting issues
- Build strong relationship with application teams and business leads to understand fine detail around normalized Enterprise data requirements and supply required enhancements where possible
- Development of inventory, financial and contractual controls for all market data services including report generation for exchanges and management
Key Skills/Experience
- 5+ years experience in financial markets and applications, exposure to working with real time market data exchange feeds in a low latency environment is an advantage
- Experience in NYSE Technologies market data platform, Bloomberg (terminals, Data License, B-pipe) and Thomson Reuters RMDS software concepts, configuration and understanding of their inner workings
- Enthusiastic, hardworking, and detail oriented, with the ability to think creatively and to communicate with confidence and clarity at all levels
Please apply to peter@eolas.ie if you're interested in this role.

Description: I have a Dublin financial based client that is looking to take on a IT Support Manager to set up a new Support team in their Dublin based office.
This person will be involved in hiring a team of 4 Support Analyst over the next few months.
Please review spec and let me know if you are interested. If this is the experience you are looking for – please contact me a.s.a.p.


The IT Support Manager, reporting to the production Director, is responsible for the day to day direction of a team of IT Support Analysts; the ideal candidate will have proven people management skills and a track record of service delivery. Strong technical and process knowledge to ensure technical incidents are resolved effectively and in a timely manner. Candidates should have thorough understanding of industry best practices, and procedures.


Main duties:

oRespond to manage the resolution of all incidents, per respective SLA processes and guidelines applicable to each region.
oReport escalations and potential issues to the Production Director
oFacilitate effective working practices and communication between regional 1st level support and the team
oMentor and coach support team members.
oResponsible for hiring, management, and professional development of support engineering staff


Skills and Competencies:

oProven track record in a Software Support Environment,
oExcellent technical skills Including
oJ2EE Application Servers : WebSphere
oWindows server 2008,
oSolaris 10
oMicrosoft WCF
oOracle Databases
oCitrix
oWorking experience supporting Tibco Solutions.
oKnowledge of real-time environment
oKnowledge of financial electronic market a plus
oKnowledge of financial data provides ( Bloomberg, Reuters) a plus

Financial Services background/exposure to capital markets environment is highly desirable


A minimum of 5-8 years work experience in a similar technical environment.

If you are interested in this role - please send me an updated CV to Lorraine@eolas.ie or call me on 01 286 66 66 to discuss in miore detail.

PLease note - I am looking for someone with a strong application support mgt experience and team mgt. exp.

Description: Application Support Engineer
Job Summary
The successful candidate will join the Application Support team and provide technical and administrative support for all trading, operational and support systems in the Dublin office. All members of the team participate in early morning and out of hours support schedules.
Responsibilities
• Application Support - provide primary support by dealing with user requests and responding to outages for all trading, operational and market data systems
• Application Maintenance – new system deployments and upgrades for all trading systems
• System Monitoring – monitoring of systems and alerts through continued use of operations monitoring
• Continuous improvement of trading support procedures, tools and runtime environment
• Interact with various internal IT support functions to troubleshoot and resolve complex problems
• Liaising with vendors as required
• Deployment of new desktop hardware
• Deployment of software through scripts and in-house tools
• Support and configuration of batch environment
• User/Desk relocation
• Log and track issues ensuring the customer is kept aware of progress

Qualifications
•B.S. in a technical discipline or equivalent experience.

Experience
•Minimum of 3 years providing 2nd level trade floor application support (not specific to desktop support) or 2 years supporting large scale, complex applications.

Hours of work
The Systems Administration group operate two shifts 7.00 – 4.00 and 9.30 – 6.30.
There will be requirements to work additional hours when necessary