Job responsibilities
- Provide daily technical expertise and operational support to ensure maximum production stability for Front Office and Middle Office applications.
- Support applications throughout the entire trade lifecycle, including algorithmic trading, trade execution and booking, market data, and risk management.
- Build collaborative relationships with other members of the Production Management team across different regions and within the organization as needed.
- Translate production issues into technical defects and manage defect resolution.
- Resolve production technology incidents promptly, ensuring timely engagement, escalation, and effective communication with business, technology, and vendor partners.
- Engage with project teams throughout the project lifecycle, particularly as projects approach go-live, to ensure successful delivery.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience troubleshooting, resolving, and maintaining information technology services.
- Proficient in SQL and stored procedures, with experience in Sybase and Oracle databases.
- Knowledgeable in UNIX, with a preference for Linux experience, and capable of troubleshooting performance and business-as-usual (BAU) issues.
- Understanding of the FIX protocol and ability to trace orders across components.
- Demonstrated expertise in solving and managing complex problems, with keen attention to detail.
- Demonstrated knowledge of applications or infrastructure in a large-scale technology environment both on premises and public cloud.
- Experience in observability and monitoring tools such as Geneos, Graphana and Dynatrace.
- Exposure to processes in scope of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Familiarity with equities and derivatives products.
- Experience in scripting or development experience in Perl, Python, or Bash.