Responsibilities
- Own the roadmap, prioritization and delivery of Talos’s connectivity capabilities, balancing new integrations, client requirements and improvements to existing connections.
- Expand connectivity into new and emerging markets, including prediction markets and tokenized assets, adapting Talos’s trading capabilities to different market structures and protocols.
- Drive multiple integration projects end to end, from technical assessment through development, certification and production rollout, coordinating teams, dependencies, timelines and risks to ensure successful delivery.
- Work closely with Engineering to define and enhance connectivity capabilities across order entry, market data, FIX/REST/WebSocket APIs, security master, rate limits, resiliency and performance.
- Ensure connectivity supports Talos trading workflows, including liquidity aggregation, smart order routing, algorithms and other EMS capabilities.
- Build strong technical relationships with exchanges, liquidity providers and other external partners to deliver new capabilities and resolve production issues.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in electronic trading, capital markets technology or institutional digital assets, ideally in product management, trading technology or connectivity.
- Understanding of EMS/OEMS workflows, order lifecycle, market data and multi-venue trading.
- Demonstrated ability to organize and drive multiple complex technical projects concurrently, with strong attention to detail, follow-through and ownership.
- Experience with exchange, broker, dealer or liquidity-provider connectivity.
- Working knowledge of FIX and API-based trading protocols, including REST and WebSocket.
- Technical aptitude and comfort working with API documentation, logs, JSON messages and production data.
- Good understanding of trading concepts such as order type, liquidity aggregation, smart order routing, rate limits and execution algorithms.
- Comfortable using SQL for investigation and analysis; scripting experience such as Python is a plus.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with Engineering, clients and external technical partners.
Preferred
- Digital asset experience is beneficial but not required; strong electronic trading experience in FX, equities, futures or other asset classes is highly relevant.
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