Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Financial Brokerage System Analyst/ Application Support Specialist to join our team. Candidate must have a 4-year degree in Computer Science or related curriculum with more than 10 years of diversified experience working in financial services or Fintech industries. The System Analysis / Application Support team is responsible for monitoring, managing and supporting our global production trading systems. Your work will range from handling time-sensitive production issues to driving forward longer-term projects, such as automation initiatives and major platform changes. You will work closely with Trading, Finance, Operations and Infrastructure teams, as well as with external counterparties and vendors. QUALITIES THAT MAKE GREAT CANDIDATES:

• Bachelors/ Master's degree (or equivalent) in Computer science or related curriculum with +10 years of relevant work experience

• Must have a solid understanding and experience working in the brokerage industry supporting electronic trading systems as a subject matter expert.

• Strong hands-on experience in configuring, troubleshooting, SQL scripting and monitoring Data bases like Oracle 11g+ and SQL Server 2012+ is a Must.

• Experience in: Multiple OS platforms with strong emphasis on Linux (CentOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu), Mac OS X, and Windows systems

• Must have a strong hands-on experience in Market Data Feed technologies, FIX protocol, Refinitiv AUTEX and Bloomberg EMSX

• Experience in maintaining integration layer using standard enterprise service bus concept for upstream/downstream systems.

• Experience in First Information Technology (FIT) trading system and FIS Front Arena will be highly considered as an added advantage

• Solid fundamental understanding of Infrastructure concepts such as: compute (different OS environments, virtualization, containers), networking (TCP, UDP, DNS, HTTP), and storage (object/block/file, NFS)

• Experience in project management and managing multiple projects, and in both determining and building against business and technical requirements

• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills * Intellectually curious individual, eager to learn and apply new concepts quickly

• High level of ownership and accountability

• Ability to make sound decisions in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment

• Highly collaborative team player with the ability to build relationships with multiple teams

• Available to join an on-call rotation and work outside of core business hours or on weekends * Strong, clear communication skills (written, verbal, and presentation)

• Excellent organization and technical documentation skills

• Strong knowledge of ITIL processes like Incident, Problem Management.

• ITIL, Prince2, SCRUM or PMP certifications will be added advantage

• Fair Knowledge of Cloud Solutions such as Open Stack, AWS & Azure Cloud.

• Fair knowledge of ManageEngine and SolarWinds monitoring tools.

Job Type: Full-time Salary: Up to AED35,000.00 per month Application Question(s):

• Do you have experience in Market Data Feed technologies, FIX protocol, Refinitiv AUTEX and Bloomberg EMSX ?
• Which Trading Platforms do you have experience with ?