DRW is headquartered in Chicago and has offices in London, Montreal, New York, San Francisco and Singapore.  We currently employ over 700 people worldwide from many different disciplines and backgrounds.

We are currently looking for a Chicago-based Financial Application Support Engineer to support a rapidly growing environment. The regular schedule for this position will be 8:30am - 5:30pm.

Responsibilities:

• Provides application support for front office, middle office and back office applications and users
• Facilitates communication between trading, infrastructure and software development teams
• Supports proprietary and third party systems
• Contributes to the engineering efforts to automate processes, monitor systems and improve software management on both Microsoft and Unix platforms.
• Communicates directly with exchanges, clearing members and ISV’s to resolve trading issues
• Releases and verifies new software packages to production
• Works with software development teams to improve, monitor and maintain internal systems
• Maintain enterprise scheduling, release and monitoring systems

Required Experience: 

• 3+ years working in a Microsoft Windows Server and Desktop environment
• 3+ years working with Unix (CentOS and/or Ubuntu experience is a plus)
• Previous experience working in the trading industry (FCM, proprietary trading, hedge fund, exchange)
• Must be able to demonstrate technical problem solving skills
• Previous experience with scripting in multiple languages such as Python, Ruby, VBScript and Bash as well as parsing structured data protocols such as JSON, YAML and XML.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent documentation and knowledge management skills