Front Arena DevOps Tech Specialist and lead
(Banks and financial services, >10.000 employees)
Keywords
Linux
Amazon Web Services
Technical Support
Asset Classes
CA Workload Automation Ae
Microsoft Azure
Banking Services
Bash Shell
Client Server Models
Capital Markets
Skills
I am an experianced Techno-functional Specialistin the IT industry. Working exclusively on client-server application development & support in Investment banking, treasury, Capital markets, and private banking domains focusing on all asset classes.
I worked with the banks in quite crucial and complicated projects/applications so far. I got the opportunity to work in different tech stack in my career, especially Front Arena being my strongest skill set.
Below are some of my tech stack used in daily basis
Shell Scripting, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Autosys, Crontab, DevOps, Linux , Linux, load balancing, Azure DevOps, office, MS SQL server, Windows, perl scripting, Regression Testing, Solaris, Sybase, VMWare, Power Shell, Windows services, Nagios, Rundeck, AVI, Grafana, Python etc..
I worked with the banks in quite crucial and complicated projects/applications so far. I got the opportunity to work in different tech stack in my career, especially Front Arena being my strongest skill set.
Below are some of my tech stack used in daily basis
Shell Scripting, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Autosys, Crontab, DevOps, Linux , Linux, load balancing, Azure DevOps, office, MS SQL server, Windows, perl scripting, Regression Testing, Solaris, Sybase, VMWare, Power Shell, Windows services, Nagios, Rundeck, AVI, Grafana, Python etc..
Project history
11/2017
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Present
Leading and Working alongside with highly skilled technical specialists team (spread across multiple locations) responsible for installation, configuration, application support and maintenance of the Absa Group's CIB Market Tier 1 application Front Arena sales and trading application for both South Africa and ARO instance (10 countries), including all up/down stream interfaces, middleware adapters and market exchange interfaces. To focus on Application Management within an ITIL Framework for trading, sales, market risk and operations across all asset classes.
Responsible for:
Front Arena South Africa instance Front Arena ARO (10 Countries) instance Adaptiv (Confirmation and Settlements) for both South Africa and ARO Synthesis Adapters Markets Tech Overnight India team supporting all Markets IT applications overnight processes
Responsible for:
Front Arena South Africa instance Front Arena ARO (10 Countries) instance Adaptiv (Confirmation and Settlements) for both South Africa and ARO Synthesis Adapters Markets Tech Overnight India team supporting all Markets IT applications overnight processes
04/2017
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10/2017
Client Services specialist
FIS
Client Services
FIS
Apr 2017 - Oct 2017 (7 months)
Client Services specialist for Trading Application for major banks including, JP Morgan, OCBC, DBS
Singapore, May Bank etc.
FIS
Apr 2017 - Oct 2017 (7 months)
Client Services specialist for Trading Application for major banks including, JP Morgan, OCBC, DBS
Singapore, May Bank etc.
09/2014
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03/2017
Front Arena Tech Specialist
Julius Baer
TradeFloor Application Support (Front Arena) - FX, FI, Equities, Derivatives &
StructuredProducts
Julius Baer
Sep 2014 - Mar 2017 (2 years 7 months)
* Markets RTB Application Support@Trade Floor for FX, FI,Equities,Structured products and
Derivatives
* Sitting next to Sales, Traders and Advisory@TradeFloor to provide L1 and L2 technical support for all
markets applications
* Day-to-day responsibility is to supporting and ensuring smooth operations for trading applications,
production systems and BAU
* Responsible for Incident management for All the issues raised by Traders RM's & PM's
* Ensure seamless operations support through comprehensive and support processes right through the
Incident life cycle
* Supporting wide range of internal and external applications for different products
-> Front Arena - Core business system for the trading of Structured Products, Equities, Fixed Income
and Derivatives
-> Murex - FX Trading and Front Risk Management System
-> WallStreet - "Front to Back to Accounting" straight through processing of all FX products
-> IBM's Olympic - Corebanking operations
-> MDP(Markets Data Platform) - Pricing system for all Markets Applications
-> MarketMap - Pricing system for FA
-> Markets Toolbox (Internal) - Primary Web based application in Private Banking for Capturing FX
and Derivative Trades
-> IPO Bond Kit(Internal) - Web based solution and a centralized subscription workflow application for
Bonds
-> OMNI - Core business system for the STP execution of the equities, fixed income and derivatives
-> MarginMan - Risk management and position-keeping system for collateralised FX trading and OTC
FX options trading
-> VolManager - Maintain and distribute the volatilities used for pricing and valuation in JB markets
* Designed several Automation scripts including, Morning Checks for all the applications (Linux
services, Windows services, Webbased connections), Intraday checks for all the services, Sunday
checks etc which reduced humon effort drastically
* Build solid and collaborative service relationship with all stockholders ,traders, business users and Dev
teams
StructuredProducts
Julius Baer
Sep 2014 - Mar 2017 (2 years 7 months)
* Markets RTB Application Support@Trade Floor for FX, FI,Equities,Structured products and
Derivatives
* Sitting next to Sales, Traders and Advisory@TradeFloor to provide L1 and L2 technical support for all
markets applications
* Day-to-day responsibility is to supporting and ensuring smooth operations for trading applications,
production systems and BAU
* Responsible for Incident management for All the issues raised by Traders RM's & PM's
* Ensure seamless operations support through comprehensive and support processes right through the
Incident life cycle
* Supporting wide range of internal and external applications for different products
-> Front Arena - Core business system for the trading of Structured Products, Equities, Fixed Income
and Derivatives
-> Murex - FX Trading and Front Risk Management System
-> WallStreet - "Front to Back to Accounting" straight through processing of all FX products
-> IBM's Olympic - Corebanking operations
-> MDP(Markets Data Platform) - Pricing system for all Markets Applications
-> MarketMap - Pricing system for FA
-> Markets Toolbox (Internal) - Primary Web based application in Private Banking for Capturing FX
and Derivative Trades
-> IPO Bond Kit(Internal) - Web based solution and a centralized subscription workflow application for
Bonds
-> OMNI - Core business system for the STP execution of the equities, fixed income and derivatives
-> MarginMan - Risk management and position-keeping system for collateralised FX trading and OTC
FX options trading
-> VolManager - Maintain and distribute the volatilities used for pricing and valuation in JB markets
* Designed several Automation scripts including, Morning Checks for all the applications (Linux
services, Windows services, Webbased connections), Intraday checks for all the services, Sunday
checks etc which reduced humon effort drastically
* Build solid and collaborative service relationship with all stockholders ,traders, business users and Dev
teams
06/2007
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01/2010
Sr Java Developer(Cash Equities) and Production Support
Citi India
Office Systems)
Citi India
Jun 2007 - Jan 2010 (2 years 8 months)
This is a Distributed Middle Office Systems including of all the regions of Zeus Ticketing Systems.
Zeus Ticketing is a suite of applications that automates the process of ticketing orders to the back
end systems. It facilitates exception-based processing by automating the matching, aggregation and
ticketing of orders, thus minimizing manual intervention. The users are alerted real-time to exceptions in
the process and can act on these exceptions as quickly and efficiently as possible
Roles and Responsibilities
* Handling the maintenance of Global Ticketing (Equity Trading System), Global Confirms (System for
Electronic Confirms) and E-Sales application (Data set-up and maintenance system).
* Co-ordinate with Front Office QA teams for availability and issues relating to Front Office.
* Performing end to end testing of the system (Front, Middle, and Back Office).
* Automating the process and system by writing shell and perl scripting.
* Continuous process improvement through progress reports.
* Managing the settlement and billing system for the client.
* Supporting the Middle Office system in Production and UAT environment
* Health checkups in both the Production and UAT environments throughout the globe
* Performing the PRRT (Production Replay Regression Testing) in UAT environment for every region
to test the code changes and the Difference in Production code and newly releasing code changes in
every release.
* Place some test orders from Front office(S&T Orders) and from Middle Office (Order Less orders) in
the UAT Environment to check system flow
Citi India
Jun 2007 - Jan 2010 (2 years 8 months)
This is a Distributed Middle Office Systems including of all the regions of Zeus Ticketing Systems.
Zeus Ticketing is a suite of applications that automates the process of ticketing orders to the back
end systems. It facilitates exception-based processing by automating the matching, aggregation and
ticketing of orders, thus minimizing manual intervention. The users are alerted real-time to exceptions in
the process and can act on these exceptions as quickly and efficiently as possible
Roles and Responsibilities
* Handling the maintenance of Global Ticketing (Equity Trading System), Global Confirms (System for
Electronic Confirms) and E-Sales application (Data set-up and maintenance system).
* Co-ordinate with Front Office QA teams for availability and issues relating to Front Office.
* Performing end to end testing of the system (Front, Middle, and Back Office).
* Automating the process and system by writing shell and perl scripting.
* Continuous process improvement through progress reports.
* Managing the settlement and billing system for the client.
* Supporting the Middle Office system in Production and UAT environment
* Health checkups in both the Production and UAT environments throughout the globe
* Performing the PRRT (Production Replay Regression Testing) in UAT environment for every region
to test the code changes and the Difference in Production code and newly releasing code changes in
every release.
* Place some test orders from Front office(S&T Orders) and from Middle Office (Order Less orders) in
the UAT Environment to check system flow
06/2006
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05/2007
Java Developer
Techway Services, Inc.
Local Availability
Only available in these countries:
Czech Republic
