Associate Engineer, Application Management

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 enhancements 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, expected to work from office covering at least 3 days per week in hybrid mode. Out of hours support overnight and across weekends and Bank Holidays is frequently needed. Should be able to provide on-call support.

Building strong business knowledge is an expectation from this role to work with business teams cohesively during investigations.

They need to eventually become domain experts 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 Cross Functional Team across Shared Technical Services and Securities Clearing Services.

Support of a critical element of the London financial infrastructure.

• Resolve Incidents and Problems
  • Monitor ServiceNow for Incidents and Problems
  • Analyze problems and decide on suitable resolutions
  • Apply resolutions following the LCH Organizational Change procedure
  • Report status to relevant business and IT teams
  • Record progress of incident resolution in ServiceNow
  • Follow documented incident management procedures and call out to the senior management team where necessary

• Bug fixes and enhancements to London Clearing House (LCH) products
  • Design solutions for longer term fixes for application bugs and small functionality enhancement requests
  • Implement application fixes
  • Update GitLab with source code changes where necessary
  • Update relevant Wiki/documentation with changes
  • Co-ordinate the Release process for new releases
  • Work to the ITIL standard following LCH/LSEG policies & procedures

• Maintain working relationship with business teams, business management and other application support teams

• 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 deal with issues
  • Support weekend releases and maintenance work
  • Participate in Production out of hours activities such as Disaster Recovery exercises

• Assist in project related work
  • Carry out requirements as defined by project team

• Quality checks for changes
  • Review development release packages prior to production deployment
  • Provide benefit of experience in the business area and application

Person Specification

Education:

• Degree or equivalent experience educated, preferably in a technical field

Required skills and experience:

• Experience as an Intern/Associate in a production support/SRE role (Preferred)
• Strong UNIX/Linux System Administration skills
• Scripting skills (bash/shell scripting, Python)
• Strong Oracle Database/SQL query writing skills
• Experience with IBM MQ
• Knowledge of Network Diagnostics & Web Servers
• Hands-on in version control repository (ideally Bitbucket or GitLab)
• Preferable to have Control-M experience.
• Exposure to Jenkins/Gitlab, CI/CD, Ansible and AWS Cloud Technologies will be an added advantage
• Understanding of product development lifecycle and methodologies　
• Qualified with the ITIL v4 Foundation course level (preferred)

Person Specification:

• Experience in Financial or an investment banking environment.
• Familiarity with financial products and financial terms.
• Excellent analytical skills, attention to details 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 and business teams and to senior management

Benefits

LSEG offers a competitive compensation package, including equity, annual bonus, and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision coverage.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed and build an exciting career. LSEG values respect, integrity, excellence, and innovation and encourages our employees to embody those values every day!

About the London Stock Exchange Group

LSEG’s vision is to be the most trusted authority in global financial markets. This is achieved through leading the world in providing access to capital, helping customers optimise capital resources and promoting trusted and open environments and services for investment.

LSEG is a diversified international exchange Group that sits at the heart of the world's financial community. The Group operates through four key business divisions: Capital Markets (broad range of international equity, bond and derivatives markets); Post Trade (post trade and risk management services); Global Technology Services (trading platforms and capital markets software); and Information Services (real-time and reference data products).

As a global business, LSEG relies on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. Therefore we seek hardworking, qualified employees in all our operations around the world−regardless of race, colour, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law.

Career Stage:

Associate

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

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