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# Trading Application Support

- **Company:** Talan
- **Location:** Greater London, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), PHP (Programming Language), C Sharp (Programming Language), Computer Programming, Relational Databases, Python (Programming Language), Unix Shell, Citrix Systems, Performance Tuning, Proprietary Software, Scripting, Bug Reporting, Visual Basic Language
- **Published:** August 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815160339-trading-application-support

## About the Role

* Excellent verbal and written communications skill.
 * Programming skills for scripting or small development (Python/ PHP/ Visual Basic/ Unix Shell Scripts/ C#/ Java)
 * Relational database knowledge
 * Must be able to thrive in a demanding front-office environment
 * Highly motivated team player but also capable of working independently

Nice to have:

 * Strong knowledge of financial markets, derivative products (equities and commodities)
 * Electronic trading support experience
 * Knowledge of options and futures operations/clearing
 * Knowledge of Citrix servers' management

## Description

For more than 20years, Talan has been advising companies and administrations, supporting them and implementing their transformation projects in the UK and abroad. With a presence on four continents and a headcount of 5000 consultants, our ambition is to reach the billion turnover by the end of 2025.

In the UK, Talan count 500 employees on several site, the main being: London, Edinburgh and Chester, Leeds.

Job Description

This role consists of managing the support of applications for the following desks:

 * Index flow
 * Emerging markets
 * Commodities
 * Equity financing
 * Flow sales

Duties will include the setting of proprietary software for booking, pricing and trading (manual and automaton, market interface) :

 * Real-time settings
 * Market access performance tuning
 * Computation setup

Duties will also include electronic executions matching, new releases deployment, bug reporting and new features or improvements requests to development teams.

Qualifications

 * Excellent verbal and written communications skill.
 * Programming skills for scripting or small development (Python/ PHP/ Visual Basic/ Unix Shell Scripts/ C#/ Java)
 * Relational database knowledge
 * Must be able to thrive in a demanding front-office environment
 * Highly motivated team player but also capable of working independently

Nice to have:

 * Strong knowledge of financial markets, derivative products (equities and commodities)
 * Electronic trading support experience
 * Knowledge of options and futures operations/clearing
 * Knowledge of Citrix servers' management


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