Senior Support Analyst

6 days ago

New York, New York, United States Options Group Full time $80,000 - $150,000 per year
Company Description

Role description:

Reporting into the Production Services Team lead (US) in New York, this support role covers the day-to-day support of operations technology platforms, working in collaboration with global stakeholders and regional teams. Will suit a self starter who is looking for a career in production support and takes pride in making difference to support the business critical processes and role includes

  • Demonstrates understanding of the fundamentals of programming concepts, interpreting technical specifications and development standards
  • Utilizes knowledge of service level delivery to offer superior service.
  • Understands effects of IT Architecture on performance.
  • Demonstrates working knowledge of Financial Services Industry concepts and is able to apply them internally.
  • Responsible for the proper functioning of existing applications and infrastructure.
  • Identifying problems, crafting and aiding in implementing the solutions, and providing continuing support
  • Perform Impact analysis of the reported issues or risks and try to find root causes and solve the issue by going through the business and systems workflow.
  • IT Delivery/Control/Process/Stability
  • KPI statistics relating to individual / teams capacity, performance and CSI
  • Professional Ethics Compliance and Risk Management
  • Industrialising the different processes
  • Maintaining Knowledge Management
Job Description
  • Dealing with support escalations from Level 1 team, including complex  user and monitoring support queries, with as minimal as possible escalations to L3 teams
  • Work as senior support analyst to provide hands on support to Operations and settlement systems
  • Planning and execution of proactive non-ticket tasks (such as automation or tool implementations)
  • To provide user query support and monitoring support queries, with as minimal as possible escalations to development teams
  • To provide batch support, health checks at the start of the day/end of the day
  • To create, update, amend relevant production support documentation
  • To use firm standard support tools and processes
  • To provide weekend support related activities on rotation basis
  • To deploy code/configuration change/releases into the pre & production environments
  • The duties of Senior Support Analysts can be broken into four distinct categories: prevention; correction; adaptation; and perfection.
  1. Prevention relies on ensuring that hardware changes or additional modules do not interrupt an application's function.
  2. Correction is the continual monitoring and fixing of issues that arise, including bug fixes.
  3. Adaptation is the modification of applications to comply with new standards and new systems
  4. perfection is the improvement of application/infrastructure to enhance performance or reliability
To work as strong team player Qualifications
  • Unix/Linux skills including Shell/Perl scripting
  • Strong database knowledge – SQL/Sybase/Oracle
  • Prior experience of BPS (Broadridge) is strongly desirable
  • Basic knowledge of programming languages – JAVA or C++ will be plus
  • Knowledge of the Financial Services Industry
  • Hands-on IT support experience & knowledge of Middle Office systems, Settlement systems will be
    highly advantageous
  • Knowledge of scheduling tools – Autosys
  • Experience of functional/technical support / investment banking environment desirable
  • Experience of monitoring software and maintaining\improving rule bases
  • Hands-on experience of using tools such as Remedy or Service Now - Desirable
  • Working within ITIL standards and structured, formal environments - ITIL qualifications – Beneficial
  • Hands on support knowledge of middleware tools (MQ, Tibco) will be a plus
Additional Information

Interested candidates please contact

Abhishek Agarwal


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