Senior Specialist, Application Management

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Job Summary

Job Description

This role involves providing application support for production, pre-production, and test functions. Responsibilities include investigating issues, developing fixes, supporting new releases, and performing general maintenance and administration. The role requires working on shifts based on UK time, including out-of-hours and on-call support. Strong business knowledge is required to work with business teams during investigations. The candidate should be a SME in underlying technologies and may be required to provide detailed technical support for developers. The role also involves incident resolution, bug fixes, environment building, configuration of monitoring and logging software, and consultancy.
Must have:
  • Strong UNIX/Linux System Administration skills
  • Scripting skills (Shell scripting, Python)
  • Exposure to DevOps and related Technologies
  • Exposure to AWS Cloud Technologies
  • Experience in Configuring and monitoring using DataDog
  • Exposure to XML / Oracle Database /SQL
  • Experience in Financial or an investment banking environment
Good to have:
  • Exposure to the Murex
  • Experience with IBM MQ
  • Control M experience
  • Familiarity with financial products and financial terms
Perks:
  • Healthcare
  • Retirement planning
  • Paid volunteering days
  • Wellbeing initiatives

Job Details

ABOUT US:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. 

Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

OUR PEOPLE:

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential.

We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives.  We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.

We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder – which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise.

As a global organisation spanning 70 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers.

Role Profile:

The role is to provide application support for the respective production, pre-production, and test functions by Investigating issues, developing fixes, supporting new releases, performing general maintenance and administration. New functionality through improvements and performance tuning is also required.

Would be required to work on Morning, Day or Night shift based on UK time according to the monthly roster. Out of hours support overnight and across weekends and Bank Holidays is frequently needed. Should be able to provide on-call support.

Strong business knowledge is required for working with business teams during investigations.

They need to be SME in the underlying technologies used by the applications. They may be required to provide detailed technical support for developers producing bug fixes & new releases of these applications.

Must be self-motivating with the ability to prioritize work among the team.

Key Responsibilities

Support of the LSEG Post Trade / London Clearing House (LCH) applications related to Shared Technical Platforms / Clearing Services including SwapAgent (https://www.lch.com/services/swapagent )

Support of a critical element of the London financial infrastructure.

  • Resolve Incidents and Problems
    • Keep an eye on ServiceNow for Incidents and Problems
    • Analyze problems and decide on suitable resolutions
    • Apply resolutions following the LCH Change Management procedure
    • Report status to relevant business and IT teams
    • Record progress of incident resolution in ServiceNow
    • Follow detailed incident management procedures
  • Bug fixes and improvements to LCH products
    • Design solutions for longer term fixes for application bugs and minor functionality improvement requests
    • Implement application fixes
    • Update Bitbucket with source code changes where vital
    • Update relevant WIKI/ documentation with changes
    • Co-ordinate the Release process for new releases
    • Work to the ITIL standard following LCH policies
  • Building and supporting environments
  • Configuring monitoring and logging software (Datadog preferably) on all resources of the application service
  • Maintain working relationship with business teams and management
  • Should be willing to work on Morning, Day or Night shift based on UK time according to the monthly roster
  • Out of hours support / On-call support
    • Be available for overnight support of production services to ensure successful completion of processing
    • Respond to overnight calls and take care of issues
    • Support weekend releases and maintenance work
    • Participate in Production out of hours activities such as Disaster Recovery exercises
  • Consultancy
    • Provide consultancy during bug fixes, design and implementation
    • Act as SME for the application and the relevant business domain
  • Assist in project related work
    • Carry out requirements as defined by project team
  • Quality checks potential changes
    • Review development release packages prior to production deployment
    • Provide benefit of experience in the business area and application

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Education:

  • Degree educated, preferably in a technical field

Required skills and experience

  • Strong UNIX/Linux System Administration skills
  • Scripting skills (Shell scripting, Python)
  • Exposure to DevOps and related Technologies : CI/CD, Jenkins, Ansible
  • Exposure to AWS Cloud Technologies (EC2, EBS, RDS, VPC)
  • Experience in Configuring and monitoring using DataDog
  • Exposure to the Murex (Preferred)
  • Exposure to XML / Oracle Database /SQL
  • Experience with IBM MQ (Preferred)
  • Knowledge of Network Diagnostics & Web Servers
  • Hands-on in version control repository (Ideally Bitbucket)
  • Control M experience (Preferred)
  • Understanding of product development lifecycle and methodologies 

Person Specification

  • Experience in Financial or an investment banking environment.
  • Familiarity with financial products and financial terms with ground knowledge of the IRD Asset class.
  • Excellent analytical skills, Attention to Detail and problem-solving abilities.
  • Experience of working in an IT support team.
  • Proven technical background in the core technologies with several years of experience.

Ability to communicate clearly and concisely to IT, business and to senior management

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

Please take a moment to read this privacy notice carefully, as it describes what personal information London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, and how it’s obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject.

If you are submitting as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is essential and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to LSEG are aware of this privacy notice.

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