Trading Platform Engineer

Manchester Digital; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

AJ Bell is seeking a Trading Platform Engineer to join their team in Manchester. This role will be instrumental in enhancing the trading platform and providing crucial support to ensure smooth operations. The ideal candidate possesses analytical skills and communication abilities to excel in a collaborative hybrid working environment. Join this fast-growing company and contribute to making investing easier for their over 593,000 customers.

Benefits

Starting holiday entitlement of 25 days

Holiday buy and sell scheme

Pension schemes with matched contributions

Discretionary bonus scheme

Annual free share awards scheme

Health Cash Plan

Discounted private healthcare

Free gym membership

Personal development programmes

Ongoing technical training

Qualifications

• Foundation to intermediate understanding of database languages.
• Analytical mind-set with strong technical ability.
• Good understanding of financial services industry.

Responsibilities

• Enhancing the trading platform through strategic improvements.
• Supporting escalated incidents from Application Support.
• Establishing processes within the engineering function.

Skills

Personal management

Communication

Analytical thinking

Customer service

Attention to detail

Tools

DB2 SQL

MySQL

MongoDb

iSeries (IBMi)

Unix

Job description

An opportunity has arisen for a Trading Platform Engineer to join the Trading Platform Engineering Team. Reporting into the Trading Platform Engineering Team Lead, the role will be responsible for helping to establish processes and improvements that will enhance AJBell’s trading platform through the strategic book of work and develop the team into a mature engineering function. Where appropriate, the role will also be responsible for providing support on incidents that are escalated by the Application Support Manager/Team.

Qualifications

Competence

• Excellent personal management and organisation skills
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• An analytical mind-set and technical ability
• Ambitious and driven to exceed expectations
• Ability to communicate at all levels, building positive relationships with colleagues and clients and maintaining excellent customer service skills.
• Credible and professional
• Able to challenge appropriately and present solutions
• A high attention to detail
• Self-starting and able to work on own initiative

Knowledge & Skills

• Foundation to intermediate understanding of a database language, DB2 SQL, MySQL, MongoDb etc.
• Foundation knowledge of iSeries (IBMi) system administration.
• A good understanding of the Financial Services industry.
• Experience working within a Change and Release framework
• Intermediate level of Unix skills
• Foundation level understanding of cloud concepts.
• Foundation level understanding of IAC

AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 593,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £90.4 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.

Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.

Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1300 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For’ forsix consecutive years.

What we offer:

• Starting holiday entitlement of 25days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
• A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 6%
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Annual free share awards scheme
• Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
• Health Cash Plan – provided by Medicash
• Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
• Free gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Sick pay+ pledge
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
• Loans for travel season tickets
• Dedicated time for proof-of-concepts and assessing new tech
• Support to attend conferences, events, and meet-ups
• Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
• Calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more
• Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops
• Ongoing technical training
• Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
• Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
• Casual dress code
• Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals

At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where you’ll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the office. For new team members, an initial period will be full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.

AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.

If you like the sound of the above, or just want to know more about the company and the role, we'd love to speak to you.