Equities Platform Reliability Engineer (SQL, PowerShell, Python)

Jefferies; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services firm in the City Of London seeks an experienced professional for a technical leadership role focusing on post-trade processing. The position requires over 10 years of experience and strong skills in automation and troubleshooting within financial services. Candidates should have experience with SQL Server and scripting languages. This role offers an opportunity to lead a global team and drive efficiency through automation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of support experience in post-trade processing for Fixed Income and Equities.
• Hands-on experience troubleshooting application/database issues.
• Experience in software development and automation.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to a global team.
• Implement solutions for stability across applications.
• Automate processes to improve efficiency.

Skills

Technical leadership

Automation

Troubleshooting

Scripting (PowerShell, Python)

SQL Server performance tuning

Understanding of operating system concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in technology infrastructure

Tools

Microsoft SQL Server

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to a high performing global team and provide oversight in plant stability across applications supporting post-trade processing (Operations).
• Navigate global technology department and wider organization to better understand problems and to help implement solutions.
• Represent the stability function on associated program governance committees and working groups.
• Proactive risk identification, prevention and detection controls and processes, and metrics to enhance plant stability.
• Collaborate with other regional counterparts on technical and functional initiatives.
• Automate to drive efficiency. Identify and create automation to eliminate manual day-to-day support activities; scope and create automation for deployment, management and visibility of services.
• Extensive experience with implementing SRE principles in the organization such as SLOs/SLIs and TOIL measurement.
• Implement best practices for building successful monitoring and alerting systems. Experience with observability platforms like Datadog and OpenTelemetry is desired.
• Work closely with engineering/development teams to design, build, and maintain systems and help them decide on products to use, schema design and query tuning.
• Extensive troubleshooting abilities across the stack.

Qualifications

Technical Skills

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, ideally in an area related to technology infrastructure (e.g., engineering, computer science, etc.).
• 10 plus years of support experience in Post-trade processing for Fixed Income and Equities. Familiarity with Broadridge is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with troubleshooting application/database/data-related issues.
• Strong organization skills with the ability to multitask and prioritize; ability to work under pressure.
• Experience in software development: automation-related experience desired.
• Scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python or compiled languages such as C#, Java are most relevant, but others are acceptable.
• Extensive experience with Microsoft SQL Server or any other DBMS including performance tuning.
• Deep understanding of operating system level concepts such as processes, memory allocation, and the network stack and how applications are affected by the above, and ability to debug them.

Desired Skills

• Hands-on experience with a scripting language and strong understanding of databases.
• Prior experience as a developer in a large-scale financial firm.
• The candidate must already be doing a similar role.