Senior Front Office Support Engineer

The Role

We are seeking an experienced and proactive Front Office Support Engineer to join our expanding global Front Office Support and Automation team in London. The Front Office Support team is embedded within our Portfolio Management and Trading teams, providing monitoring, maintenance, and support of our most business-critical systems. You will be responsible for solving complex problems for our investment professionals and stakeholders and will serve as the first point of contact for troubleshooting any issues with our trading platform.

What makes this role interesting 

The Front Office Support Engineer will focus on providing critical support for our EMEA-based Fundamental Equity and Tactical Trading Portfolio Managers, Traders and Analysts. You will manage a dynamic workload and gain exposure to many interesting facets of the firm, including but not limited to:

• Front-row seat to the markets: You will sit on the trading floor, embedded with our Portfolio Management teams, with real-time exposure to multi-asset strategies and decision-making.
• Impact from day one: Resolving a production incident or supporting a Portfolio Manager has an immediate effect on PnL.
• Build and run: We don't just troubleshoot, we optimise. You'll have the autonomy to identify repetitive pain points and work with partner teams to automate and evolve our processes.
• Global perspective: Follow-the-sun coverage means close collaboration with support teams in the US and APAC, so you'll learn and share best practices globally.

What you'll do

• Incident ownership: Triage, diagnose, and resolve real-time trading issues across our Order Management System (OMS)/Execution Management System (EMS), Bloomberg, and proprietary trading and execution tools/systems.
• Stakeholder management: Act as the technology "first responder" - our liaison and primary bridge between our front office users (traders and Portfolio Managers) and core engineering teams, translating trading requests into actionable technical work.
• Service reliability: Maintain and evolve our monitoring, alerting, and post-incident review processes, and help drive a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Project execution: Lead projects from ideation and requirements gathering through to production. 

What You’ll Bring

What you need 

• 4+ years of financial services experience supporting traders and Portfolio Managers (ideally at a hedge fund, investment bank, or electronic market-maker).
• Experience working with Order Management Systems (OMS), Execution Management Systems (EMS), and Portfolio Management Systems (PMS) trading stacks.
• Experience supporting front office vendor trading systems (e.g. Portware, Enfusion, Neovest) - Knowledge of equities, futures, FX, and/or options trading strategies.
• Working knowledge of trading workflows, FIX, market data vendors (Bloomberg, LSEG/Refinitiv), and broker algos - Technical skills including SQL, FIX Protocol and Excel/VBA.
• Excellent verbal and written communication - ability to translate and explain complex issues to non-technical users.
• Ability to maintain composure under pressure, take initiative in problem-solving, and identify root causes
• Strong sense of ownership and a track record of delivering results.

Nice to have

• Proven AI tooling experience - Scripting experience with Python.
• Strong business analysis and project management skills.
• Exposure to APIs - Derivatives and valuation experience - you understand Greeks, pricing models, and how traders interpret them, or have experience supporting systems that perform these calculations.

Who we are

Schonfeld is a global multi-manager hedge fund that strives to deliver industry-leading risk-adjusted returns for our investors. We leverage both internal and external portfolio manager teams around the world, seeking to capitalize on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets. We draw from decades of experience and a significant investment in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics to invest across four main strategies: Quant, Tactical, Fundamental Equity and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income.

Our Culture

At Schonfeld, we’ll invest in you. Attracting and retaining top talent is at the heart of what we do, because we believe that exceptional outcomes begin with exceptional people. We foster a culture where talent is empowered to continually learn, innovate and pursue ambitious goals. We are teamwork-oriented, collaborative and encourage ideas-at all levels-to be shared. As an organization committed to investing in our people, we provide learning and educational offerings and opportunities to make an impact. We encourage community through internal networks, external partnerships and service initiatives that promote inclusion and purpose beyond the firm’s walls.