Description
A manager at a top investment bank in New York City is looking for a Fixed Income Credit IT, eTrading Application Support person eith ION trading experience to join his team.I am working directly with the hiring manager for this role and will certainly be able to influence the process.
- The role is to provide 1st line technical support to the Fixed Income Credit and IRG eTrading desks.
- The role will require the management of all aspects of the Global Credit and IRG systems for Fixed Income Electronic Markets IT, working closely with all the support and development teams across the regions to continue to build a market leading support organisation for FI IT.
ION experience is a must for this role.
This will be a 10+ month contract that the manager will look to constantly extend or turn full time - please do not apply unless you are interested in something long term.
The rate will be based on experience, but they are looking to pay for a Senior Consultant.
Would you please find the job spec below and if you are interested, please respond to this email with a copy of your most recent resume.
Also, please do not hesitate to forward this information to any colleagues or friends who may be interested and have the desired skill set.
Day-to-day Responsibilities as support analyst:
- The team is responsible for monitoring the system availability, proactively preventing system problems, and responding to system incidents when they occur. They are also responsible for problem analysis, managing system change and ensuring minimal impact to the end users.
- Ensure root cause analysis is undertaken for all incidents.
- Communicating the status of the system. Providing ETAs for solutions when necessary.
- Improving the monitoring and support systems by doing scripts to automate the support and writing specification for monitoring and support team that will be transferred to the development.
- Regularly review and improve the checks done by the team (morning, checks, evening checks …)
- Coordinate the package build of third part application, and test it.
- Review the releases which are planned.
- Participate to the UAT phase of the major delivery.
- Write and maintain documentation.
- Work in partnership with the Mumbai team and train them.
Candidate Profile:
- IT Technical Support understanding Functional aspects of Trading.
- Must be a high calibre graduate with ability to solve complex problems under pressure.
- Experience in FI Support.
Thanks, talk to you soon!
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