Must have experience within the Commodities Trading sector
Our financial client in London is seeking a Head of Commodities IT to head up and oversee their UK based teams.
Overall purpose of the role:
The Head of Global Markets IT UK is responsible of the Global Market IT scope in London.
Breakdown of the role:
90% of the activity based around Commodities IT
10% remaining on other activities in London represents the interface between London business and Head Office IT to escalate requests, needs or issues to Head Office IT and cascade Global Market IT information from Head Office.
The successful candidate will participate on the IT strategy within the Commodities business.
Required Skills/Qualifications/Experience
Personal skills
• Good Commodities knowledge
• Capacity to understand complex IT environment (infrastructure, global chain)
• Strong leadership skills within one or multiple areas below:
• Good communication and synthetic skills
• Good decision-making skills
• Good interpersonal communication skills including negotiation and influencing
• Ability to manage difficult situations
• Capacity to assist, develop and build IT strategy
• Proactivity
Program/Team management
• Capability to participate, assess and challenge project (quote and specification) from initial requirement
Our Financial client is looking for a “Network / System Engineer” to join their London office in a permanent role.
Responsibilities
Day-to-day maintenance and monitoring of our high-performance research cluster and collocated trading infrastructure
Diagnosis and resolution of operational issues involving Linux, high bandwidth WAN links, Cisco routers, multicast and other high-performance technologies
Configuring new compute/network equipment and coordinating hardware maintenance in datacentres around the globe
Writing and configuring automation tools that enable the team to work effectively at scale (e.g. automated builds, configuration management, patch and application deployment, observability and performance management)
Engineering robust and reliable systems to support the expansion of the business
Adopting new technologies you think might benefit the company to build robust and reliable systems
Candidate Attributes
Passion for automation, and a desire to know how computers inter-operate in cuticular detail
Keen interest in open source and new technologies
Desire to work closely with highly technical colleagues on all levels of the stack (from hardware specifications and datacentre operation to intricate protocol or software architecture) Academic Requirements
2:1 (or foreign equivalent) degree in
Other Requirements
Demonstrates evidence of strong technical prowess, maybe by writing and maintaining open source software, or configuring complex networks
The ability to code proficiently in multiple programming languages
Comfortable on the Linux command line
Takes pride in well documented systems and can communicate their work to the rest of the team effectively
Detailed theoretical and practical knowledge of operating system and network basics (i.e. a successful candidate should know how technical elements such as DNS, TCP/IP, or BGP work, and will probably have managed their own Linux machines)