Swift Engineer - Middleware Messaging Expert/Consultant

London  ‐ Onsite
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Candidate with strong SWIFT technical knowledge and experience is required to join our team at a Tier 1 Investment Bank in London. This is to look after Middleware-Messaging Operational Services for the firm, with primary responsibility to work on upgrades, maintenance and support for the SWIFT product set. You will be expected Project Management & basic support services.
Responsibilities-
•Specialize in a process area (environment management, product and financial management, standards and practices or engagement)
•Understand the common tools and practices used in managing the environment (AppDir, PACT/DACT, CSF, STAR, etc.)
•Develop requirements for enhancements to our products when appropriate
•Participate in change, incident, environment, capacity and BCP management
•Manage projects, budget, SLA management, product chargeback for owned products
•Help define strategy, manage communication and prioritization of enhancements
•Vendor, user and business engagement
•Understand the technical architecture of the products we support and be able to troubleshoot most issues that arise in production
•Responsible for the health of the production environment for the product(s) owned
•Contribute to the design and implementation of new and re-engineered tools to manage and monitor the production environment
•Liaise with engineering team to prioritize enhancements, develop product strategy, and communicate the vision to clients
•Provide consultation for the business and business application development teams on solutions that meet their requirements
•Engage with vendors in all stages of their products' life cycle including discovery, evaluation, implementation and future direction
•Engage with greater technology team and project management in large project efforts
•Use industry knowledge to proactively inform businesses of the impact of upcoming changes to relevant products as well as to formulate a plan of action
•Knowledge share to rest of team.
Technical Skills/Experience
•Strong knowledge and experience of working with SWIFT services (FIN, Interact, FileAct, Browse etc.) and SWIFT products (SAA/MINT, SAG, web-platform etc.)
•Basic understanding of SWIFT message formats and Standards Releases
•Unix (shell) and Perl scripting
•Experience in working with RDBMS and SQL
•Basic Java development experience preferred
General Skills/Experience
•Solid problem solving and Technical Project Management skills
•Significant experience with the operation of large-scale/high performance systems
•Significant experience in operations and troubleshooting user and environmental issues
•Understanding of the software deployment process, with preferable experience in high-volume environments
•Strong planning, prioritisation, communication skills in the context of a team environment
•Demonstrate knowledge of monitoring and instrumentation
•Experience with BCP, change and incident management, operational efficiency programs
•Strong interpersonal and communication skills in order to provide support to our users in all regions. This will extend from resolving product specific queries to coordinated software rollouts and production support
•Experience dealing with demand based support, such as a rota based system
•Experience in working with messaging products such as TIBCO EMS or IBM MQ
•Experience of configuration management of middleware software solutions
•Understanding of Networking and OS (Linux/Solaris/Windows) fundamentals
•Financial markets knowledge
Data Inc UK Ltd is an innovative IT solutions company servicing Fortune 500 clients, primarily in the banking and financial services sectors throughout the UK and Europe, in a seamless manner through our group of companies in different geographies. Data Inc was established in 1983 in Montvale, New Jersey, USA and has acquired global presence with offices in the UK, Switzerland and India. Founded as a staff augmentation organisation, we have emerged as a total IT solutions and Services provider.
SWIFT / Middleware/ Messaging/ Mint / SQL/ Java/ Project Manage / Support / Developer / Investment Banking
Start date
n.a
From
Data Inc UK
Published at
15.11.2013
Project ID:
627999
Contract type
Freelance
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