We are currently recruiting for an application Support Engineer to join the Commodities trading IT group at an international investment bank.

As a member of the team, support the global commodities in house platform, critical for front-to-back functionality including pricing, risk management, trade booking, market data imports, p&l reporting, settlements, physical scheduling, trade confirmations and regulatory reporting and more.

Key daily tasks include:

• Fielding questions from all CIT personnel including traders, marketers, risk managers, and Middle Office and others
• Analysing and resolving production support technical and functional issues
• Proactively monitoring the system
• Incident Management
• Release management
• Participate to the platform improvement:
  • Monitoring
  • Infrastructure and Architecture
  • Obsolescence Management/Migrations
  • Bug Fix specifications and testing
  • Various tools development
• First-line support rota, which includes an early shift for resolving overnight batch issues and late shift + on-call for overnight and weekend support.

Functional skills:

• Cleared and OTC products (Futures/Options/Swaps/Exotics).
• Good knowledge on Commodities activity
• Knowledge on pricing, valuation, and p&l.
• Front to back workflows and architecture.
• Market data management and providers.
• Settlement and invoicing.
• Regulatory reporting for commodities
• Confirmation process.

Technical skills:

• Intermediate level relational database and SQL skills are required.
• Monitoring tools: Geneos, Graphana/Prometheus, Dynatrace.
• Windows/Linux Servers administration - essential.
• Networks infrastructure/Security - essential.
• Good knowledge of script languages (Powershell, Python).
• Experience on Dev/Ops environments.
• Knowledge on: IBM MQ/Octopus/Consul is a plus.

Please submit your CV immediately in order to be considered for this role

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