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Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Provide time critical support and maintenance for multi-slot batch and applications which serve our global Asset Management business, ensuring rapid resolution and minimal impact to services and data integrity.

• Perform application recovery, incident management and conduct root cause analysis, debugging failures and applying fixes across the global time zones.

• Support scheduled release and deployment activities, including validation, rollback planning, and post-deployment monitoring.

• Evaluate infrastructure, system and third-party changes to identify potential impact to supported application services.

• Collaborate with infrastructure specialists to implement fixes and enhancements and participate in scheduled Disaster Recovery proving events during maintenance windows.

• Work seamlessly with service partners to ensure robust service levels are maintained.

• Produce and maintain technical documentation to support our production services.

• Develop, test and maintain application code, contributing to sprint activities as part of our application lifecycle management.

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Experience of working in an application support and maintenance role.

• Strong proficiency in SQL for data querying, processing and performance tuning.

• Familiarity with Financial Services, preferably trading and the ability to ensure compliance throughout.

• Understanding of data warehousing, ELT/ETL processes, and data modelling.

• Experience using scheduling tools and in supporting applications running on Windows.

• A proactive mindset with a focus on service and customer impact.

• Performs consistently in time-sensitive and complex scenarios.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

• Ability to work independently and within cross-functional teams using agile development.

Desirable Skills

• Experience supporting Markit EDM and Charles River batch.

• Familiarity with Data/ETL tools such Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric.

• Understanding of MQ (IBM MQ, ACE) for message-based integrations or equivalent.

• Power BI and SSRS experience

• Autosys scheduling , Ab Initio for ETL and batch processing

• Exposure to DevOps practices and tools (CI/CD, automation).

• Knowledge of Cloud-native development: Azure, Snowflake, ADF (Azure Data Factory) and DBT (Data Build Tool) for modular SQL development.

• Understanding of Active Directory, Networks and Powershell scripting or equivalent.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment.  We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance.  We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.