Trading Infrastructure Specialist

Marex is a diversified global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in the commodities, energy and financial markets.

The Group provides comprehensive coverage across five core services: Market Making, Execution & Clearing, Hedging & Investment Solutions, Price Discovery and Data & Advisory. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, executing around 38 million trades and clearing over 193 million contracts in 2021. The Group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders. Marex maintains a strong balance sheet with prudent capital and liquidity positions and has an investment grade credit rating.

Marex was established in 2005 but through its subsidiaries can trace its roots in the commodity markets back almost 100 years. Headquartered in London with 29 offices worldwide, the Group has over 1,600 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

For more information visit www.marex.com

The role of Trading Infrastructure specialist is to scope, build and enhance Marex’s electronic trading offering. Liaise with Front office where there are gaps and opportunities bring Marex’s Clearing, ISV and vendor relationships together to meet clients’ needs as well as consolidate platforms where possible.
Where gaps are found or new business arise, utilise and grow Marex’s data platform Plutus, to record and store this data as well as improve the usage/availability of the central data store.

Marex has unique access across markets with significant share globally both on and off exchange. The depth of knowledge amongst its teams and divisions provides its customers with clear advantage, and its technology-led service provides access to all major exchanges, order-flow management via screen, voice and DMA, plus award-winning data, insights and analytics

Central to Marex is the Technology Department and the services it provides to the business. Technology is geographically diverse but with a critical mass in London to deliver agile working across Infrastructure, Support and Development.

Based in London, the Trading Infrastructure Specialist will focus on electronic platforms from new business acquisitions as well as existing. Where possible use hosted platform infrastructure for new services and integrate with existing services where they match functionality.

This role works closely with both Front Office business managers – and the Technologists aligned to the business lines. Technology decisions should be aligned with Marex’s offering and if custom or developed applications are required, then these should flow through our lead architect and development teams.

Responsibilities:

• Work with IT, Clearing and Front Office to balance the client and business needs, as well as ensuring a consolidated, scalable IT environment that follows Marex’s IT standards.
• Identify where Marex offers repetitive services to clients and combine to reduce costs.
• Identify and manage gaps between IT and Clearing teams for services and technology offered to clients. Streamline these to enable faster onboarding.
• Oversee and enhance the FIX connectivity and offerings Marex provides.
• Manage relationships with vendors and trading partners.
• During acquisitions, identify consolidation of new platforms to better serve clients, offer hosted solutions where possible.
• Ensure delivered infrastructure and systems are of production quality and adequately documented for handover to the business and/or support functions
• Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the AMF
• Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
• Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
• To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility
• To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required
• To escalate risk events immediately
• To provide input to risk management processes, as required.

Skills & Experienced Required:

Competencies

• Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness
• Ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility
• Report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required
• Escalate risk events immediately
• Provide input to risk management processes, as required.
• Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.
• Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience with cash equities, equity derivatives, FF&O and Fixed Income markets
• Full understanding of FIX connectivity and FIX related applications
• Understanding of algorithmic trading
• Proven experience in driving change to improve and automate electronic trading systems.
• Stakeholder management and business analysis.
• Delivery focussed, displaying entrepreneurial and leadership skills.
• Trade Lifecycle knowledge. Pre-trade, Trade, settlement/clearing, Risk. Full front to back.
• Experience of Trading Technologies, Pricing, Risk and algo trading.
• Architecting secure, reliable and scalable infrastructure and software.

Marex is fully committed to the elimination of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company.

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