Production Support Analyst-2

Vanguard Australia; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard Australia is seeking a senior production support lead to provide advanced support for key trading applications and infrastructure used by equities and fixed income teams.

You will lead incident response, perform root cause analysis, mentor junior analysts, and drive improvements while meeting SLAs. The role requires strong communication with front office and collaboration with global IT in a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• Six+ years of IT production support experience in financial services.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or MIS preferred.
• Strong stakeholder communication and time-critical issue management.
• Experience with front office and trade floor support.
• Knowledge of investment management processes and trade life cycle.
• Experience with cloud, UNIX, Oracle, Python, and trading systems.

Responsibilities

• Provides advanced production support for applications, databases, and systems, coordinating issue resolution.
• Monitors production systems for alerts and outages, performing root cause analysis.
• Defines SLAs and ensures timely resolution, coordinating with stakeholders.
• Performs system health checks and data-flow analysis across systems.
• Mentors junior analysts and updates production support documentation.
• Drives improvement efforts and changes in processes.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Front office / trade floor support

Investment management knowledge

Trade life cycle understanding

Production support (cloud)

UNIX

Oracle

Python

Trading systems

Execution Management systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or MIS

Job description

About Vanguard

50 years ago, John C. Bogle had a vision to start an investment company that did things differently. A company with no external shareholders. Where all the profits were invested back into the business and used to lower costs. Evidently, it was as bold as it was brilliant. To this day, Vanguard Group still has no external shareholders. That means no share prices to protect, and no profits to generate for outside owners.

About Vanguard

50 years ago, John C. Bogle had a vision to start an investment company that did things differently. A company with no external shareholders. Where all the profits were invested back into the business and used to lower costs. Evidently, it was as bold as it was brilliant. To this day, Vanguard Group still has no external shareholders. That means no share prices to protect, and no profits to generate for outside owners.

Today, Vanguard is one of the world’s largest investment management companies, serving more than 50 million investors worldwide. For more than 30 years Vanguard Australia has been supporting individual investors, financial advisers, and superannuation members to achieve their long-term financial goals.

Team & Opportunity

GIFS APAC Run Org (Trading Floor Support Team) is part of global IT operations support team that helps to run, reduce and restore any application incidents. The team plays a critical role in supporting our investment management process by supporting critical trading systems.

This is a senior productions support role that will provide technical leadership to the team as well as be key point of contact for our users in the equities and fix incomes group.

Core Responsibilities

• Provides advanced level production support of applications, databases, and systems. Directs and coordinates technical procedures to resolve production issues after evaluation. Provides infrastructure configuration services on multiple platforms in the test environment.
• Leads the monitoring of production systems for alerts, outages, and system issues. Researches issues and performs root cause analysis to minimize risk. Manages the expectations and requirements of business and production support teams.
• Sets service level agreements and ensures that support requests are resolved within the service level agreement timeframe. Resolves elevated issues and communicates the resolutions. Partners with key stakeholders/vendors to ensure deliverables and SLAs are met and minimize business impact.
• Involves in performing system health checks to proactively trap issues on the fly and also deep diving into data flow analysis across systems by leveraging SNOW/Pager Duty
• Operates as an advanced technical partner and maintains strong working relationships with business partners.
• Writes and updates production support documentation, policies, and procedures.
• Leads improvement efforts and directs changes.
• Mentors and trains junior production support analysts. Proactively expands knowledge of systems and shares best practices.

Skills And Experience

• Minimum of six years related work experience, with two years of Information Technology and financial domain experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Degree in Computer Science or Management Information Systems preferred
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills as well as being able to manage tough and time critical situations
• Previous experience in front office and trade floor support
• Understanding of investment management process and trade life cycle
• Production support experience in cloud environment, UNIX, Oracle Systems, Python, OMS, Trading Systems, Execution Management systems preferred

Inclusion Statement

Vanguard's continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: "Do the right thing."

We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard's core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard’s core purpose.

Vanguard Australia is proud to hold the Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (EOCGE) citation, awarded by WGEA, recognising our strong commitment to gender equality and our dedication to inclusive policies, gender balanced outcomes and a safe, respectful workplace

Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.