Front Office Application Support

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This role is based in the United States and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United States.

Purpose of the role: The role exists within a eFX Digital technology team to provide technical analysis and associated solutions for a set of applications in production and to ensure their availability for the business as per agreed Service Level Expectations (SLE) or requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and pursue automated solution / support tools for repetitive manual effort
• Embrace best practice within the department and share this across technology where possible
• Learn the application and the associated business functionality
• Build and maintain the run books for key activities such as DR, Changes etc
• Actively own and maintain support documentation
• Work collaboratively with other teams across geographies keeping the business priorities in mind
• Achieve a more productive support environment by actively seeking improvement avenues
• Provide support during new releases into the production environment
• Implement emergency changes with necessary assistance from developers and other IT teams
• Develop strong relationship with the development and infrastructure support teams to resolve production issues in a timely manner
• Ensure availability of applications as per agreed Service Level Expectations or requirements by monitoring applications, related jobs and resolving issues
• Provide a timely and effective response to user queries by analysing, investigating and fixing them as required
• Ensure proper stakeholder communication and escalation as required
• Perform ‘root cause’ analysis of user issues, provide immediate workaround for critical problems

• Working in shifts and weekends.

Previous Experience :

Essential:

• Good knowledge of the Markets and Banking business and FX products traded.
• Experience of working in a dynamic environment often with shifting priorities

Front to back awareness of processes within an investment bank (from sales to back office)

Desirable:

• Experience of performing a similar role in a leading global Investment bank
• Experience in eFX trading platforms ,Experience in Front Office platforms

Technical Capabilities:

• Good general awareness of Information Security policies and Technology Risk Management from an enterprise / banking systems context
• Unix, Scripting , Sybase, Oracle, FIX Protocol, Experience with FX Trading Platforms, KDB, Geneos, Splunk, Autosys

Qualification:

• Tertiary/University degree level qualifications are expected
• ITIL Certification (Desired)

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