Global Banking Markets - Software Engineer, Equity Electronic Trading - Riyadh - Vice President-

**GLOBAL BANKING MARKETS** Our core value is building strong relationships with our clients which include, asset managers, hedge funds, broker dealers and systematic clients. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor. **The Team** We are a team at the heart of electronic trading. We own the production plant and manage the systems that process billions of dollars’ worth of trades every day. Working as part of the Production Engineering function, Frontline support team members proactively and reactively deal with operational risk. We are accountable for the monitoring and support of Algorithmic, Smart Routing, Order Management & MTF systems. We use and evolve the techniques, tools and applications to monitor systems, application and business performance. We work closely with the developers, product managers, business support and the technology team to deliver electronic execution services. We ensure the availability, performance and flexibility of the service, today and in the future. **Job Description** The team requires a self-motivated self-starter with good technical skills to be providing business and technical support for the equity electronic trading stack. The role sits within the Frontline support team who are the primary face off to the trading desk. The ideal candidate would have experience in a similar desk facing support function at a financial services firm. **Responsibilities and qualifications** **Role Responsibilities** * Direct trading desk facing business and technical support * Own the production environment * Serve as level one support on issues * Demonstrate plant health through plant monitoring, alerting provisioning and capacity management * Automate repetitive maintenance and troubleshooting tasks * Communicate and document production changes, improve the change management process and tooling * Drive continuous improvement through incident follow-ups and root cause analysis * Challenge other teams to improve production-related practices * Coordinate and run emergency drills **Essential Experience** * Running a production plant in financial markets * Understanding of order management and downstream processes * Great communication skills * Proven ability to work directly with a demanding user base and manage their needs * Strong desire and ability to understand the business * Ability to triage and prioritise incoming requests * Hands on working in large-scale Unix/Linux environments * Using and maintaining application monitoring, performance and capacity management in large-scale systems * Good experience writing SQL queries * Scripting in Python, Bash or similar language **Desired Experience** * Working in equities cash markets and trading systems * Writing C++, Python, Java, Javascript We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits Healthcare & Medical Insurance We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance. Holiday & Vacation Policies We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year. Financial Wellness & Retirement We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities. Health Services We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices. Fitness To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount). Child Care & Family Care We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.