PA2025Q3JB093 Platform IT Lead Specialist

SS&C; Basildon; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services and healthcare technology company is seeking an Application IT Lead Specialist in Basildon, UK. The role involves monitoring events, managing incidents, and ensuring effective support for applications. Candidates should have experience with cloud applications, SQL, and ITIL frameworks. The company offers a hybrid work model and various professional development opportunities, enhancing work-life balance and wellbeing for employees.

Benefits

Hybrid Work Model

Professional Development Reimbursement

Competitive Holiday Scheme

Comprehensive Wellbeing Benefits

Diversity & Inclusion Commitment

Hands-On Training

Qualifications

• Experience of working on Cloud based applications.
• Knowledge of messaging services.
• Windows experience with IIS, error handling and troubleshooting.
• Ability to write Microsoft SQL Server queries.
• PostgreSQL experience.
• Experience supporting a 24/7 application.
• Knowledge of ticketing tools such as Service Now and JIRA.
• Knowledge of the ITIL Framework.
• Familiarity with Monitoring and Alerting tools.

Responsibilities

• Monitor events generated by the management system.
• Manage incidents and ensure timely resolutions.
• Review current processes for improvements.
• Conduct health checks and maintain production environments.
• Participate in project lifecycle providing support.

Skills

Cloud based applications

Messaging services

IIS Administration

Microsoft SQL Server

PostgreSQL

24/7 application support

Service Now

JIRA

ITIL Framework

Monitoring and Alerting tools

Job description

Job Overview

PA2025Q3JB093 Application IT Lead Specialist page is loaded. PA2025Q3JB093 Application IT Lead Specialist locations: Basildon, UK. Time type: Full time. Posted on: Posted 22 Days Ago. Job requisition id: R34875. Job Title: Application IT Lead Specialist. Locations: UK (Essex).

Get To Know Us

Business Unit: Information Technology. SS&C is a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue. SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid‑market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model between office and remote
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
• Work / Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands‑On, Team‑Customised throughout your career

What You Will Get To Do

Event Monitoring: Review and act upon events automatically generated by the event management system.

Incident Management

• Take ownership of incidents that are assigned to the Support Team
• Diagnose and assign accordingly incidents that have been assigned to the Support Team which require assistance from another business unit.
• Ensure incidents are accepted, updated and resolved in accordance with the associated SLA.
• Escalate incidents where appropriate and liaise with fellow Senior Support Analysts and SMEs to ensure prompt resolution.
• Log and track incidents which are assigned to a third party, ensuring communications flows are kept open to allow prompt diagnosis and resolution.

Problem Management

• Take ownership of problems assigned to the Support Team
• Ensure problems are kept active and updated and resolved in line with the Problem management process.

Continuous Improvement

Review the current process and look at where improvements can be made such as using automation or reviewing the Bluedoor batch to suggest improvements.

Change Management

• Raising and implementing Service Now Change Requests to support data, config and code changes to any of the supported environments (level 0 through to Level 4 and production).

Smoke Tests

Execute a selected set of validation scripts with critical functionality to verify an application is ready for testing or production usage following software changes.

Health Checks and Monitoring

Verify and continually monitor the production environment to ensure it is available for use by the business and customers following maintenance outages.

Other Responsibilities

• Security Testing: Verify an environment meets the security requirements prior to testing.
• Participation in projects at various stages of the project lifecycle to provide SME knowledge, defect management, test support, implementation planning, implementation support, early life support.
• May be required to form part of the established on‑call rota providing additional backup and support to the Level 1 support group.
• Ensuring all key documentation is regularly reviewed and updated.
• Performing annual Disaster Recovery (DR) tests and evidencing the results.
• Supporting monthly patching windows or essential maintenance.

What You Will Bring

• Experience of working on Cloud based applications.
• Knowledge of messaging services.
• Windows experience – Knowledge of IIS, error handling and troubleshooting whilst being able to evidence root cause in a clear manner.
• Microsoft SQL Server – Ability to write queries to assist in incidents, general enquiries or when supplying data for operational requests.
• PostgreSQL experience.
• Experience supporting a 24 / 7 application in a pressurised environment.
• Knowledge of ticketing tools such as Service Now and JIRA.
• Knowledge of the ITIL Framework.
• Monitoring and Alerting tools.

Diversity & Inclusion

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Application Instructions

If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ . Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee‑based recruitment services.

Equal Employment Opportunity

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.