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Senior Application Support Analyst

The application support Analyst needs to be highly motivated and comfortable working in a high tempo environment. Must demonstrate ability to resolve multiple parallel issues routinely and prioritise workloads.
Investigate issues, develop fixes and perform general maintenance and administration. Other tasks include adding new system functionality through enhancements and performance.
Good communication skills are essential with the ability to engage stakeholders and overcome barriers to progress and extract issue resolutions. Out of hours support overnight and at weekends (part of an on-call rota) is frequently needed.
Strong business knowledge is beneficial for working with business teams during investigations. Whilst full scale coding and technical development isn’t expected minor code changes and testing will be required. This role will also involve some mentoring of offshore staff.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Support of a critical element of the London financial infrastructure.
  • An essential member of the application support team responsible for proactively monitoring, guarding and improving all aspects of the live production environment.
  • Provide project environment support through key stages of the software lifecycle.
  • Noticing anomalies in a running system before they become incidents
  • Design and develop solutions for application bugs and system enhancements.
  • Out of hours support
  • Part of a production support rota covering overnight and weekend support
  • Support weekend releases and maintenance activities
  • Assist in project related work
  • building and supporting parallel environments for multiple project streams
  • Making code enhancements (minor) using version control software
  • Building production rollout release runbooks during project lifecycle
  • Engaging stakeholders to take ownership of issues and driving them through to resolution
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Education:
  • Degree educated, preferably in a technical computing discipline
Skills/Experience/Qualifications:
  • Experience in an investment banking environment and IT Support function
  • DevOps experience preferable
  • Excellent analytical skills and problem solving abilities.
  • Must be used to high pressure banking environments working to tight deadlines
  • Ability to communicate to stakeholders such as IT and business teams, senior management
  • Experience of the Murex (3.1) application advantageous
Key Technical Skills:
  • Good command of UNIX including shell scripting.
  • Software version control (Bitbucket, GIT, any other)
  • CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or CloudBees
  • Preferable to have AWS Cloud experience (RDS, EC2, Autoscaling, VPC, S3 Buckets)
  • Good Experience supporting Java based application and services.
  • Strong knowledge of Oracle databases including scripting and preferably performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
  • Basic knowledge of Financial products and trade lifecycle.
  • Understanding of product development lifecycle and methodologies
  • Python, Ansible, Terraform experience advantageous
  • Postgres and Snowflake database experience advantageous
Compensation/Benefits Information (New York City applicants only):
LSEG is committed to offering competitive Compensation and benefits. The anticipated base salary for this position is $95,100 - $176,700.
Please be aware base salary ranges may vary by geographic location, city and state. In addition to our offered base salary, this role is eligible for our annual incentive (AIP/"bonus plan"). Target AIP rates will be commensurate with role level and posted career stage. Individual salary will be reflective of job related knowledge, skills and commensurate experience. All roles are typically eligible for inclusion in our LSEG benefit program, more information & details will be provided at time of offer.
At LSEG, we believe that creating a diverse and inclusive organisation is fundamental to the way we deliver on our promise of creating essential partnerships and open opportunities. Our open culture is central to how we deliver our purpose – driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth – in everything we do.
Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 70 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.
LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.
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