General Responsibilities
Act as Subject Matter Expert / Support in all issues related to the ForexClear platform from a technical and business perspective
Provide continuous improvements and automation to ensure the support function remains efficient and as secure and resilient as possible.
Support of a critical element of the London financial infrastructure.
Noticing anomalies in a running system before they become incidents
Design solutions for longer term fixes for application bugs and small functionality enhancement requests
Issue management and follow up with development and project team.
Non-production batch run and monitoring in Control-M and issue resolution.
Escalation and management of issues to resolution
Liaise with infrastructure teams to manage Trade Agent environment – DB, Unix, MQ, Storage, portal, Networks, A
Issue tracking and analysis
Release coordination and implementation
Support BAs, tester, risk analysts in a scrum-like setting.
Update relevant WIKI/ documentation with changes
Maintain working relationship with development team, business teams and business management.
Incidents and Problems
Monitor ServiceNow for Incidents and Problems
Analyse problems and decide on suitable resolutions
Apply resolutions following the Post Trade Change Management procedure
Report status to relevant business and IT teams
Record progress of incident resolution in ServiceNow
Follow documented incident management procedures
Work in Shifts/Out of hours support/ On-call support
Be available for overnight support of non-production services to ensure successful completion of batch processes and code deployments.
Respond to overnight calls and deal with issues.
Support weekend Production releases and maintenance work
Participate in Production/non-production out of hours activities such as Weekend deployments.
Consultancy
Provide consultancy during design and implementation.
Act as domain experts for the applications
Quality check potential changes
Review development release packages prior to production deployment
Provide benefit of experience in the business area and application