A global investment and diversified financial services group based in an excellent CBD location.
The Role
A great opportunity for a hands-on and motivated person to join a talented team to assist in the delivery of service to a global 24 hour trading business. The role would particularly suit someone who likes to work in a fast-paced environment and who understands the need for appropriate process and controls to minimise production incidents. The successful candidate will gain a deep insight into financial markets trading technology.
Main Responsibilities are:
- hands-on leadership of a small local team (as part of a larger global team) that provides front line trading systems support for traders and clients on a broad range of issues
- investigates problems beyond own area of knowledge, applying a broad business focus
- co-ordinates problem resolution and the implementation of changes in accordance with established change procedure
- co-ordinates changes and key operational activities like weekend infrastructure changes and business resilience tests
- pro-actively implements operational process improvements including documentation, process automation, capacity management and alert reduction
- strong hands-on leadership experience in a senior customer-facing, technology focused role
- ability to handle multiple tasks or issues concurrently in a fast-pace, demanding environment
- excellent oral and written communication skills
- outstanding judgement and decision making skills
- ability to write programs, scripts and SQL statements from scratch with relatively complex logic
- ability to think analytically and troubleshoot technical issues
- ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
- ability to make independent decisions within generally defined parameters
- ability to learn quickly
- an enthusiastic can-do attitude and a desire to take ownership of assigned tasks and issues
- Linux/Unix
- SQL
- Scripting
- Experience in change and infrastructure management as well as all of the above
- Full working rights in Australia - Sponsorship can't be offered