FICC Application Support Analyst

Overview

On Site
USD62 - USD72
Contract - W2

Skills

FICC Application Support Analyst

Job Details

job summary:

The key responsibilities / deliverables are as follows (but not limited to):




  • First point of contact for end business users in Rates

  • Ownership and delivery of on-boarding support of or processes into the MAPS organization

  • Build and maintain strong partnerships with business stakeholders, application development personnel, and infrastructure contacts

  • Monitoring and alerting of critical trading system environments

  • Troubleshooting of complex systems issues

  • Proactive identification and resolution of problem hotspots

  • Development of tools and driving efficiency/stability improvements

  • Accurate tracking of support effort to enable effective management reporting

  • Release implementation and enforcement of change management policy

  • Major Incident management and Problem Management

  • The suite of applications we support cover many different functional aspects of the business, including pricing and trade capture, risk generation and aggregation, market and reference data. The role will give the successful candidate exposure to the full front-to-back process from trade inception to feeding risk downstream. This is also an opportunity to work in a global team.

The core set of technical skills that are beneficial in the role are:




  • Operating systems: Linux primarily

  • ITIL Certification or performed in a role that demonstrates application of the principles

  • Scripting languages: Unix Shell, Python

  • SQL (intermediate level: multi-table joins, grouping results, stored procedures)

  • Grid computing (e.g. Data Synapse), job scheduling (Autosys, Crontab) batch management

  • Well rounded understanding of infrastructure disciplines (network, server, storage, messaging)

  • Enterprise Monitoring - ITRS Geneos

  • Documentation (Confluence)

  • Experience with trading risk systems

  • Familiarity with Bloomberg and Reuters



location: New York, New York

job type: Contract

salary: $61.59 - 71.59 per hour

work hours: 8am to 5pm

education: Bachelors



responsibilities:



  • Monitoring and alerting of critical trading system environments

  • Troubleshooting of complex systems issues

  • Proactive identification and resolution of problem hotspots





qualifications:

  • Experience level: Experienced
  • Minimum 10 years of experience
  • Education: Bachelors


skills:
  • RF
  • Technical Support
  • Python



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    This posting is open for thirty (30) days.



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