Trading System Engineer (Ref. 1891)

About us

As a leading sustainable private bank, we offer dynamic and personalized services in investment advisory and asset management for private and institutional clients. Our success depends on the enthusiasm and commitment of our employees and we value each person with their unique technical expertise, professional qualifications and social skills.

We are successfully operating for more than 180 years across 27 locations worldwide and offer our employees the chance to be a part of our success. Our employees are our most valuable asset, we are proud of our unique culture that fosters entrepreneurship and is fueled by a high team spirit and the positive attitude of each individual. Join our international team and be part of the next chapter of the J. Safra Sarasin Group. 

Your role

As Trading System Engineer at Bank J. Safra Sarasin you are in a team which develops enhancements and new solutions for our group wide used execution trading system (FIS Front Arena AMS/OMNI, Avaloq) as well as for surrounding systems. This role contains project management work and frequent traveling between Basel and Zürich.

Your responsibilities

• Define IT processes and workflows within our order routing and trading system, e.g. Front Arena AMS/OMNI (Market Access, Order Routing, Settlement) and Avaloq
• Implement, configure and test new functionalities
• Analyse and support on business level
• Write documentations

Your profile

• Higher education (university / FH) in IT or natural sciences 
• 3 years of practical experience in an IT trading environment
• Basic knowledge in the area Trading (Eq, FI, Deriv, FX) as well as experience with FIX Protocol, TLS, encryption is required
• Knowledge in FIS Front Arena execution trading system and/or Avaloq is an advantage 
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to work with various stakeholder
• Capability to work independently as well as ands-on mentality
• Ability to work under pressure
• Fluency in English, fluency in German is a plus 

Please note that only direct applications will be considered. 

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