Application Production Support Specialist

3 weeks ago

Montreal, Canada Axelon Services Corporation Full time

Application Production Support Specialist
12 Months Contract
Montreal,QC

Position Description:

The Reference Data Production Management Team is looking for an energetic, enthusiastic team member who enjoys analytical troubleshooting for level two support for the following domain areas -

Reference Data Platform:

Streamlined access point for data & distribution of the whole Enterprise Data- Products Reference Data : Single source of Enterprise Product (stock/bonds/derivatives etc.) & related Corporate Action- Pricing Reference Data : Firms periodic and a-periodic pricing data (e.g. tick data, end-of-day pricing data, company financials, macro-economic statistics, historical reference data, index/ETF composition).- Elemental Reference Data: Single source for static reference data including countries, currencies, time zones and calendars.

The team is distributed globally across Asia, Europe and North America. The team covers all aspects of ITIL Production Management, including Engineering, Support and Deployment across the above practice areas. The candidate should be adaptive to a continuous changing and fast paced environment, be able to successfully multi-task, and enjoy the pressure and stress of a fully engaged production management role. The role will involve interacting with developers, external vendors, data operations, other Application Support Group Teams as well as clients directly in the business units. Previous production management experience is mandatory. The successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of production management including :- - Taking ownership and managing production requests/questions/issues- Manage production problem related incidents- Perform post incident analysis / documentation and related follow-ups- Planning for IT/Business/Market change events- Internal/External communication- Taking proactive initiatives to stabilize & improve plant/enhance current process- Identifying and implementing automation opportunities to minimize repetitive work for the team

The candidate needs to:

* Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage working under pressure.
* Understand the overall business flow, supported application systems and its interface with clients.
* Be able to investigate on issues (by going through logs/code/database).
* Incident management for application issues.
* Act as an escalation point for clients (often managing demanding clients).
*Escalating problems to level 3 (core development and engineering) groups.
* Be flexible to provide weekend on call rotation (every 6 weeks).
* Work closely with Application Development to ensure that the support team has excellent knowledge of the application set own and maintain support knowledgebase and documents.
* Document the knowledge articles and related support pages (remove).
* Liaise with external parties to resolve issues (markets, data providers, etc).
* Be able to effectively communicate across internal/external groups and business clients.
*Be able to drive follow-up on issues and provide updates.

Skills Required:-

* Bachelor in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related technology field.
* Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar role.
*Professional ownership of incidents and end user requests.
* Developing and documenting support processes.
* Experience in a fast paced, dynamic enterprise infrastructure.
* Production management experience ITIL training.
* Strong analytical and debugging skills .
*Strong understanding of SQL, DB2 and Sybase databases.
* Familiarity with Python, Perl and/or Java.
* Linux and UNIX skills- Strong communication skills are essential, and must be able to switch between technical terminology and business language easily.
* Have a can do attitude with a strong sense of ownership, follow through and delivery.
* Team player, highly motivated (or Team player in a global and diverse setting).

Skills Desired:-

* KDB- Knowledge of the financial industry.
* Previous experience supporting reference data and middleware architecture.
*Devops/SRE Knowledge - Cloud AWS.

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