Senior Applications Response Specialist In Simcorp- B/O & M/O)

Tandem Search

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Ref: KP709-2109

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Senior Applications Response Specialist With SIMCORP Exposure - Asset Management
- Supporting Back Office and Middle Office.

Our client is a leading investment management institution based in the UAE. They are currently seeking a trading applications support analyst (senior) for a permanent role. The position offers extremely generous salary and benefits.

Department / Division: ITD / Application Development
Line Manager: Head of Application Response

Summary: Will provide technical and functional application support for application that are in production. The focus is on business applications assigned to the Asset and Information Services unit.

The role requires:
- Strong application skills including information flows across interfaces and satellite systems
- Operation 2nd line support
- Undertakes application System upgrade and release control
- Response to applications in production (incidents, small/medium enhancements, RAD, configuration changes, problem management)
- Undertakes business continuity, capacity planning and architecture alignment
- Develops and maintains application catalogues, infrastructure control sheers and incident knowledge base. Help develop run books for business response teams
- Moves between business response team and application response team, as workload dictates

The role supports all applications “in production” and will require working in application rotas or out-of-office house based on the requirements of the role. The ideal candidate will have a passion to deliver a robust and reliable application framework with adequate controls in place to deliver the required application services.

The analyst will be part of the IT Department and report to the Application Development Line Management

Business Subject Matter Expertise
- Conversant with Order Management, Trading Management, Corporate Actions, Master Data Management, Performance, Risk, Investment Services, Compliance, Accounting, Reconciliations, Satellite Systems to support core investment systems and information flows, in the business of Equities.
- Knowledge of other financial instruments and their derivatives that are used in the equities, fixed income, commodity and currency markets, is preferred.

Will undertake key responsibilities to cover the areas listed below:
- Incident Management
- Problem Management
- Small / Medium Changes
- Vendor Upgrades for in-production applications (including patching, hot-fix)
- Business Continuity
- Training to Business Aligned Support teams or Infrastructure-DCA teams
- CMDB and Controls to manage accuracy of a binary / configuration release into Production are in place
- Ensure that all functional, technical, operational controls and user manual documentation is available for the application and is presented in common repositories (content central)
- Ensure that all in production applications have correct license structures/counts, as agreed in contract
- Understanding of COMPANY’s entitlements under the Maintenance Service Contract
- Ensure configuration changes are on Vendor support site
- Test Cases for in-Production Application
- Application Capacity Planning

Team Participation Roles
- Develops, directs, coaches, mentors and reinforces team members in line the mission, vision, values, goal and performance standards of COMPANY. Encourages and facilitates co-operation and results orientation
- Fosters an environment of collaboration, commitment and team spirit. Inspires, motivations and guides team members
- Being results orientated. Sets and accomplishes challenging, yet achievable goals. Defines standards in terms of doing what is appropriate and doing it well
- Works effectively in a team
- Prioritizes own work. Can successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
- Is a self-starter with a passion to learn
- Has a constant pulse on the application an inspires the team to work on continuous improvements
- Diplomacy, cultural sensitivities, excellent collaboration and communication skills are required
- Ideally, the candidate should be “aspirational” and should solicit information on enterprise direction, goals, industry initiatives and challenges for the business to derive value from technology solutions provided
- Uses professional knowledge, experience and technical expertise to respond to questions and facilitate problem solving; generally advises, influences and provides technology solution guidance to business users.
- Carry out other duties as required

Requirements

- University degree, preferably in business or related field
- Relevant qualifications or experience in application support in an investment domains (such as equity, treasury and illiquids) is required.
- 4-7 years’ experience of being an analyst in a fixed income, investment or trading firm
- Competent in working with applications such as SIMCORP is a must
- Applications facing equities, accounting, corporate actions or reconciliations would be preferred
- Understanding of trading systems, support/satellite system and information exchange protocols
- Has participated in high-impact application support environments that involve applications with a wide footprint, complex interfaces and information flows across multiple core and satellite systems.

About the Company

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