Desktop Support Engineer – Trade Floor Environment
💷 £300–£350 per day | Inside IR35 | Central London (5 days on site)
📆 Initial 6-month contract | Long-term potential
You’ll be working for a financial institution in the City, delivering first and second line IT support to users in a high-pressure trading floor environment. You’ll be the face of IT for front and back office teams — solving problems on the spot, keeping systems live, and supporting everything from desktops to market data feeds.
✅ What you’ll be doing:
* Supporting trading desk and back office users in a fast-paced, high-performance environment
* Managing support tickets end-to-end — from logging to closure
* Installing and maintaining desktop hardware, software, and peripherals
* Supporting collaboration tools like O365, Teams, Exchange and more
* Collaborating with infrastructure, telecoms, and networking teams
* Assisting the Trade Floor Support Lead and contributing to ad hoc projects
🔧 What you’ll need:
* Experience supporting trading or financial services users
* Familiarity in supporting electronic trading, and market data technology in both Front and back office situations.
* Proven experience supporting Windows 10/11 desktops in a professional environment
* Strong hands-on skills with O365, Exchange, Teams, Mimecast
* Experience with PC imaging and deployment tools (SCCM, InTune)
* Confident working with Dell, Lenovo, HPE trade floor hardware
* Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills
* Strong grasp of ITIL processes
* Familiarity with market data and trading apps is a nice-to-have
You’ll be the calm in the storm — someone who can diagnose, fix and reassure users without breaking stride. If you’re looking for a role where you’re visible, valued and right at the heart of the action, this is it.
📩 To apply – click the link or for a faster response email Barry.Ansell@HarringtonStarr.com