Primary System Analyst, Off

State Street; Burlington (MA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 118,750; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Comprehensive health insurance

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

State Street seeks a Primary Systems Analyst for Charles River IMS to manage production systems for multiple clients as part of the SaaS offering. You will ensure system availability, perform performance tuning, and coordinate upgrades and patches in a hosted environment.

The role requires 3+ years of experience in financial services tech, strong customer service skills, and the ability to work with vendors and clients. Occasional travel and after-hours support may be needed.

Qualifications

• Experience with Financial Services Investment Management or trading systems.
• Ability to partner with internal departments to deliver superior customer service.
• Experience with MS SQL Server, Oracle, and/or Sybase database configuration, operations, and basic administration functions.
• Experience with servers, operating systems, networks, scripting, XML, programming languages, job scheduling software, system monitoring software and disaster recovery/business continuity.
• Excellent customer service skills, technical troubleshooting skills, and interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or analytical discipline.
• Minimum of 3+ years’ relevant industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Client assistance in optimal use of the system.
• User administration/privileges.
• Parameter configuration changes.
• System availability.
• Application and database performance tuning.
• Daily operational processing monitoring and support.
• Charles River IMS and database software patches.
• Charles River IMS version upgrades.
• Assistance with problem support and resolution.
• Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery assistance.
• Working with Charles River colleagues to smoothly transition new Clients to production operation.
• Working with vendors as partners to deliver a tightly integrated, seamless service to Charles River Clients.
• Participation in the development and on-going refinement, enhancement and continuous process improvement for the services.
• Participation in the investigation, implementation, and operation of 3rd party tools to enhance/improve, automate, and streamline the delivery of the services.
• The role will involve periodic out of hours support and/or weekend work.
• Occasional travel to customer sites may be required for planning and review meetings.

Skills

Financial services domain knowledge

Customer service

SQL/Oracle/Sybase

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical/analytical field

Tools

MS SQL Server

Oracle

Sybase

Job description

Primary Systems Analyst, Charles River Development

Charles River provides an end-to-end solution to automate front and middle office investment management functions across asset classes on a single platform. Delivered as a hosted service, the solution improves data quality and investment professional productivity, controls risk and lowers technology costs. Charles River serves more than 350 investment firms in over 40 countries in the institutional asset and fund management, private wealth, alternative investments, insurance, banking, and pension markets. Charles River was acquired by State Street in October 2018.

Background

A client-facing, business and technical staff position responsible for all aspects of managing production Charles River IMS systems for multiple Clients as part of the Charles River Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings which includes Application Management for hosted and non-hosted clients.

Responsibilities

• Client assistance in optimal use of the system
• User administration/privileges
• Parameter configuration changes
• System availability
• Application and database performance tuning
• Daily operational processing monitoring and support
• Charles River IMS and database software patches
• Charles River IMS version upgrades
• Assistance with problem support and resolution
• Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery assistance
• Working with Charles River colleagues to smoothly transition new Clients to production operation.
• Working with vendors as partners to deliver a tightly integrated, seamless service to Charles River Clients.
• Participation in the development and on-going refinement, enhancement and continuous process improvement for the services.
• Participation in the investigation, implementation, and operation of 3rd party tools to enhance/improve, automate, and streamline the delivery of the services.
• The role will involve periodic out of hours support and/or weekend work.
• Occasional travel to customer sites may be required for planning and review meetings.

Skills, Experience & Qualifications Required

• Experience with Financial Services Investment Management, Trading or related systems highly preferable ( e.g. Charles River IMS)
• Proven ability to partner with various internal departments to deliver superior customer service.
• Experience in MS SQL Server, Oracle, and/or Sybase database configuration, operations, and basic administration functions.
• Any experience with the following is preferred: servers, operating systems, networks, scripting, XML, programming languages, job scheduling software, system monitoring software and disaster recovery/business continuity.
• Excellent customer service skills, technical troubleshooting skills, and interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or analytical discipline such as Computer Science, IT, Financial Engineering, Engineering, Science, Economics, Maths’ or Statistics preferred.
• Minimum of 3+ years’ relevant industry experience

Salary Range

$70,000 - $118,750 Annual

Benefits

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans. For a full overview, visit https://hrportal.ehr.com/statestreet/Home.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.

Job Application Disclosure

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Job ID: R-785357