Redline Operations Team Lead

Pico; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global market data firm is looking for an Application Support Team Lead in London. This role involves leading a global operations team and managing mission-critical market data environments. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in operations, strong technical skills, and knowledge of the financial industry. The position offers a hybrid working arrangement.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience in an operations role.
• Experience operating as part of a service management organization with ITIL Framework.
• Line management and team leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a global team managing Redline market data and trading environments.
• Ensure appropriate global cover for operations.
• Drive innovation in monitoring best practices.

Skills

Operations Management

ITIL Framework

Team Leadership

Financial Industry Knowledge

Technical Skills (Linux, Scripting)

Interpersonal Skills

Presentation Skills

Education

5+ years relevant experience

Tools

Monitoring Tools

Job description

Application Support Team Lead (Market Data & Trading Environments)

London

Pico fuels the global capital markets community by providing exceptional market data services and customized managed infrastructure solutions. As financial industry experts at the center of markets and technology, we help our clients efficiently scale their business and quickly access markets. From infrastructure to connectivity, we support our clients through the full trading lifecycle. We are a global company headquartered in New York, with offices in Chicago, London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

Purpose of the role

The Application Support Team Lead is responsible for leading a global team of operations experts, managing the Redline market data and trading environments for a range of Pico clients. Redline products perform a mission critical function for Pico clients. When customers require Pico to manage environments as a service, it is critical that our operations teams perform this duty with the utmost professionalism, skill and with world class customer service.

Responsibilities and duties (include but not limited to)

• Responsible for line management of a growing global team operating in Europe, The United States and Asia.
• Management of teams role in production support, ensuring appropriate global cover for operations.
• Management of team KPIs and performance metrics as it relates to response times, change management and customer support.
• Ownership of monitoring tools, processes and requirements for Redline products. Driving innovation and thought leadership on monitoring best practices.
• Ownership of teams role in incident management.
• Ownership of change management procedures for all customer environments.
• Being an escalation point for customers.
• Tracking and delivery of customer SLAs.
• Leadership role to take responsibility for improving team standards, improving best practices, bringing new ideas and an innovative mindset to continuously improve operations functions.
• Partnering with other Pico leaders as it relates to related functions (network team, engineering team, platform team, product management team, etc).
• Contribute as part of the Redline leadership team.

Education, Skills and background (incl. Education and Experience Requirements)

• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience in an operations role.
• Experience operating as part of a service management organization with ITIL Framework.
• Line management and team leadership experience.
• Financial industry knowledge and understanding of global exchange landscape.
• Ideal experience of managing market data tickerplant and order entry software, either in a software or data vendor organization or in a client organization.
• Strong technical skills (Linux, scripting, network knowledge, performance tuning).
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent presentation skills.

Working Arrangements

This is a Hybrid-based position in locations where Pico has a local office. Remote position may also be considered in location where Pico does not have a local office.

Travel may be required from time to time, but it is not expected to be regular or frequent.

The team operates a follow the sun model and role holder is expected to work standard local hours, Monday to Friday. As part of a rota, working during bank holidays and infrequent weekend tests will be required, and will be compensated by time in lieu.

IMPORTANT DATA PRIVACY INFORMATION:

This position is available with PICO GLOBAL LTD. The controller of your personal data will be PICO GLOBAL LTD.

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Pico is an equal opportunity employer. Pico does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at Pico are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

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