Trading Application Support

Job Title:

Application Architect III

Contract Duration: 12 Months Contract Role

Location:

New York, NY

This is a critical Global Markets role in supporting Front office FICC Credit business, requiring a motivated and flexible individual to work in close collaboration with the Application Developers, peer Support Leads, Application Managers, Offshore teams and Infrastructure Support. This is a high-profile role working in a high intensity environment which demands an individual to display Business and Technical acumen, the ability to assimilate lots of information quickly, with focus on Incident and Problem Management whilst being highly adaptable to a changing trading environment.

• Application support and problem diagnosis skills - ability to jump in and investigate issues, resolve problems, and communicate status
• Manage user query mailbox effectively, understand the scope of team’s work and ensure timely and appropriate response is provided for all user queries.
• Develop support tooling and automation using Python and Java script
• Respond to and resolve feed support issues for Autosys and Python based batches
• Manage alerts and monitoring of critical trading system environments using ITRS.
• Incident management – provide timely and accurate user notifications as well as management escalations when needed.
• Documentation and knowledge management.
• Follow up and coordinate resolutions with various development teams.
• Assist with metrics reporting for Python based systems and Java applications
• Coordinate and perform Business Continuity testing and related paperwork.
• Organize and run meetings independently for issue resolution.
• Identify scope for automation to reduce manual, repeating tasks.

• Python, Quartz, Unix/Linux, SQL, shell scripting
• Knowledge of FI Derivatives Bonds, MTGE Loans, ITRS Geneos, Splunk, Ansible, Dynatrace, FIX Connectivity

Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.