Senior Engineer - Application Management
ABOUT US:
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge, and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years.
Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.
LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.
OUR PEOPLE:
People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential.
We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.
We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder – which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise.
As a global organisation spanning 70 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers.
ROLE PROFILE:
Member of the London Clearing House – Offshore Environment Management Team within SwapClear that manages the building of environments, environment batch support and deployment of code changes from development through to production environments.
Provides engineering application support, configuration and maintenance of Linux, Control-M, Oracle, SQL, Murex Architecture, Murex MxML & Datamart
Would be required to work on Morning, Day or Night shift based on UK time according to the monthly roster. Out of hours support overnight and across weekends and Bank Holidays is frequently needed. Should be able to provide on-call support.
Strong business knowledge is required for working with business teams during investigations.
They need to be domain guides in the technologies used by the applications supported.
Must be a self-motivated problem solver with the ability to prioritise engineering decisions amongst the team.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
General Responsibilities
Issue management and follow up with development and project team.
Lead code deployments across multiple environments.
Identify and implement automation of environment support and buildout.
Non-production batch run and monitoring in Control-M and issue resolution.
Escalation and management of issues to resolution
Liaise with infrastructure teams to manage SwapClear environment – DB, Unix, MQ, Storage, Portal, Networks, Control-M, Gitlab. AWS Cloud
Issue tracking and analysis
Release coordination and implementation
Support BAs, testers, risk analysts in a scrum-like setting.
PERSON SPECIFICATIONS
Education:
Required skills and experience
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
Strong Linux, Control-M, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, Murex environment management skills, DevOps pipelines, AWS Cloud
Scripting skills (UNIX shell scripting: bash, korn shell)
Hands-on in version control repository (Ideally bitbucket, Gitlab)
Understanding of product development lifecycle and agile methodologies
Strong exposure to SQL, PL/SQL,, Git, Ansibles, Gitlab Maven, Datadog, Service Now will be an added advantage.
Experience of working in a DevOps environment, proficient with creation of Ansible playbooks, managing code in a version control repository like GIT, and orchestration builds via Jenkins, Gitlab, Docker, SonarQube, Maven, etc.
Experience in diagnosing and resolving complex problems.
Person Specification
Experience in a Post Trade or Clearing service environment.
Familiarity with financial products and financial terms
Excellent analytical skills and problem-solving abilities.
Experience of working in an IT support team
Strong technical background in the core technologies with multiple years of experience
Ability to communicate clearly and concisely to IT and business teams and to senior management.
Collaborative team spirit
