Application Support Engineer (Tuesday to Saturday Shift)

DTCC; Wrexham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Wrexham is looking for a Software Developer to enhance application performance and provide application support. This role requires a strong background in database management, programming, and troubleshooting, along with the ability to work collaboratively within a dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have at least 4 years of related experience and a bachelor's degree or equivalent. This position offers a hybrid model with a focus on professional development.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive health insurance

Flexible working model

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.
• Strong knowledge of programming and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Analyze application systems to prevent incidents.
• Gather documentation for audits.
• Execute disaster recovery scripts during outages.
• Monitor dashboards for potential issues.

Skills

Automation

Database Management

Python

Team Collaboration

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Oracle

MS SQL

Jira

AWS

Splunk

Job description

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

Pay and Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits
• Pension
• Paid Time Off and Personal / Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible / hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

This Role will be a Tuesday-Saturday Shift.

The Impact you will have in this role

The Development family is responsible for creating, designing, deploying, and supporting applications, programs, and software solutions. May include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities related to software products used internally or externally on product platforms supported by the firm. The software development process requires in-depth subject matter expertise in existing and emerging development methodologies, tools, and programming languages. Software Developers work closely with business partners and / or external clients in defining requirements and implementing solutions. The Application Support Engineering role specializes in maintaining and providing technical support for all applications that are beyond the development stage and are running in the daily operations of the firm. Works closely with development teams, infrastructure partners, and internal / external clients to elevate and resolve technical support incidents.

Your Primary Responsibilities

• Analysis of Applications Systems in order to prevent incidents from reoccurring
• Expand knowledge base of operating procedures / runbooks for supported applications
• Collaborate within the team to resolve application alerts and elevate as needed
• Gather requested documentation in support of ongoing audits requests
• Execute assigned steps of the Disaster Recovery scripts during planned and unplanned outages, collecting BCM evidence as needed
• Ensure automation produces expected results within stated thresholds
• Monitor Dashboard to provide better visibility into potential issues and future outages
• Analyze proposed application design and provide feedback on potential gaps to business requirements
• Execute renewals / service account password changes as scheduled, resolve production defects and handle minor enhancements as needed
• Align risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately
• Understanding of different technologies and applications Database – Oracle, MS SQL, DB2, Snowflake Middleware technologies – WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, Java, JRE Knowledge in the following : MQ, CA View (Autosys), Service Now, Jira, Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace , OCP, IIB Cloud Computing – AWS, CloudWatch, Cloud Formation, Azure, Google Cloud Programming and scripting – ability to establish automation, write scripts (Perl, Python, Chef, Puppet, linux, windows) or implement system solutions
• General knowledge of industry principles and new technologies like cloud computing, virtualization, etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success

• Minimum of 4 years of related experience
• Fosters a culture where honesty and transparency are expected.
• Stays current on changes in his / her own specialist area and seeks out learning opportunities to ensure knowledge is up-to-date.
• Collaborates well within and across teams.
• Communicates openly with team members and others.
• Resolves disagreements between colleagues effectively, minimizing the impact on the wider team.