A leading investment firm is looking for an experienced Electronic Trading Onboarding Lead to manage FIX connectivity, OEMS integrations, and multi-asset trading onboarding across APAC.
This role sits between front-office trading, relationship management, and production support, taking ownership of the firm's electronic trading connectivity ecosystem across Equities, FX, Fixed Income, and Derivatives.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end FIX onboarding for clients, brokers, and liquidity providers.
- Manage OEMS/EMS integrations including Bloomberg EMSX, Eze, FlexTrade, BidFX and similar platforms.
- Oversee trading session setup, certification, connectivity testing, and go-live support.
- Act as the senior escalation point for complex trading connectivity issues.
- Coordinate with relationship managers, trading teams, and operations to ensure smooth onboarding and post-trade flows.
- Maintain and optimise low-latency trading connectivity across multiple asset classes.
- Manage UAT, regression testing, and onboarding lifecycle activities.
- Provide leadership to a small offshore engineering/support team.
Requirements
- Strong tacit knowledge of eTrading onboarding of new portfolio management capability
- Buy-side or prime brokerage background
- Strong hands-on FIX protocol expertise (FIX 4.2 / 4.4).
- Experience troubleshooting FIX messaging, sequence gaps, and connectivity issues.
- Strong understanding of electronic trading workflows and order lifecycle management.
- Experience with OEMS/EMS platforms within hedge funds, buy-side, broker, or trading environments.
- Multi-asset exposure across Equities, FX, Fixed Income, or Derivatives.
- Strong stakeholder management skills across technical and front-office teams.
- Experience with tools such as Geneos, Verifix, Itiviti or similar is advantageous.
Salary range up to 250k SGD plus bonus
