Senior Murex Production Support Engineer – Equity Derivatives

Mizuho; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 111,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Generous employee benefits package

Job summary

Mizuho is looking for a Senior Murex Production Support Engineer specializing in Equity Derivatives. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in ensuring production stability on the Murex MX.3 platform, with a focus on proactive monitoring and incident management. You will engage with various stakeholders, diagnose issues, and maintain high service levels for trading operations.

The role operates within a hybrid environment during NY trading hours, providing opportunities for both in-office and remote work.

Qualifications

• 5+ years supporting experience in Front Office Trading Technology; 3+ years Murex MX.3 preferred.
• Strong analytical skills to understand complex workflows.
• Strong communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Act as first and second line of defense for production stability.
• Own end-to-end incident management and triage.
• Design and enhance proactive monitoring for critical production processes.

Skills

Murex modules: e-tradepad, Pricing

Strong Unix/Linux log-based troubleshooting

Hands-on experience in scripting (Unix shell, Python)

SQL Experience (Sybase, SQL server or Oracle)

Education

5+ years supporting experience in Front Office Trading Technology

Tools

Murex Log analysis

Any Enterprise job Scheduler tool experience

Job description

Overview

Join Mizuho as a Senior Murex Production Support Engineer – Equity Derivatives! We are seeking a proactive and detail‑oriented Senior Murex Technical Production Support professional to support the Equity Derivatives trading desk. In this role you will act as the first and second line of defense for production stability on the Murex MX.3 platform, providing oversight and hands‑on support across user queries, trade capture issues, pricing discrepancies, risk view gaps, workflow failures, and system incidents. The role places strong emphasis on decisive triage, effective stakeholder engagement, proactive monitoring, technical diagnostics, incident and case ownership, and close coordination with L3 support teams and the Murex vendor to drive timely resolution and platform stability.

Responsibilities

• Front‑Line User Support
• Own end‑to‑end incident management, including triage, impact assessment, root cause analysis (RCA), and post‑incident remediation.
• Actively monitor system health indicators such as application logs, batch jobs, job schedulers, RTS feeds, and integration dashboards.
• Design and enhance proactive monitoring and alerting for critical production processes to improve early detection and platform stability.
• Classify incidents by severity and domain (pricing, risk, market data, interfaces, booking).
• Perform first‑line technical diagnostics, capturing relevant evidence (logs, traces, data snapshots).
• Investigate complex issues such as pricing inconsistencies, risk and sensitivity gaps, trade enrichment failures, and upstream/downstream interface latency.
• Incident Monitoring & Triage
• Own incident triage, root cause analysis (RCA), and post incident follow ups
• Actively monitor system health dashboards, logs, job schedulers, and RTS feeds
• Proactively design, implement, and enhance monitoring for critical checks to ensure early detection of issues and production stability.
• Identify and classify incidents.
• Capture evidence and perform initial troubleshooting.
• Investigate pricing/risk gaps, trade enrichment issues, and interface delays.
• Case & Vendor Management
• Create, manage, and track Pega vendor cases, ensuring clear problem statements and technical context.
• Provide detailed reproduction steps, configuration details, logs, and environmental information to accelerate vendor analysis.
• Coordinate functional and technical reviews of vendor responses and fixes.
• Validate vendor patches and solutions in lower environments.
• Environment & Change Coordination
• Support controlled production changes, emergency fixes, and scheduled maintenance windows in line with change governance.
• Execute pre‑ and post‑deployment technical validations, including functional checks on pricing, risk, and trade processing.
• Coordinate closely with infrastructure, middleware, and release management teams to ensure smooth deployments and production stability.
• Documentation & Knowledge Management
• Maintain and enhance SOPs, runbooks, technical procedures, and incident knowledge bases.
• Document recurring issues, known errors, and resolution patterns to support problem management.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives focused on system resilience, operational efficiency, and reduction of repeat incidents.

Technical Skills

• Murex modules: e-tradepad, Pricing, Simulation, Livebook, Workflow
• Murex Market data modules: MDCS, RTBS, MDRS, MDIT flow for (volatility, Repo, Dividends)
• Pricing API exposure (Murex Indicative Pricing API preferred, REST APIs, GraphQL)
• Murex Log analysis, performance debugging
• Strong Unix/Linux log-based trouble shooting
• Hands on experience in scripting (Unix shell, Python preferred)
• Good understanding of Murex orchestration, services, and process flows
• Strong experience in diagnosing and resolving user slowness and performance issues through analysis of Murex platform behavior and logs
• Good understanding of Murex EOD process families and experience troubleshooting EOD job‑related issues
• SQL Experience (Sybase, SQL server or Oracle)

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years supporting experience in Front Office Trading Technology; 3+ years Murex MX.3 preferred.
• Understanding of EQD products and Greeks.
• Strong communication skills - Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical skills to understand a broad set of sophisticated cross‑asset products and complex end‑to‑end workflows.
• Automation skills using any tool/technology
• Self-motivated and directed, with the ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

Nice To Have Qualifications

• Any Enterprise observability or monitoring tools setup experience (e.g. Telemetry, ITRS, Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog)
• Any Enterprise Job Scheduler tool experience (e.g. Tidal, Autosys, Ctrl M)
• Incident, Problem & Change management experience (e.g. Service Now)

Work Model

• NY trading‑hours coverage.
• On‑call rotation.
• Hybrid environment.

The expected base salary ranges from $111k-$180k. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications and licenses obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. In addition to salary and a generous employee benefits package, successful candidates are eligible to receive a discretionary bonus.

Other Requirements

Mizuho has in place a hybrid working program, with varying opportunities for remote work depending on the nature of the role, needs of your department, as well as local laws and regulatory obligations. Roles in some of our departments have greater in‑office requirements that will be communicated to you as part of the recruitment process.

Company Overview

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is the 15th largest bank in the world as measured by total assets of ~$2 trillion. Mizuho\'s 60,000 employees worldwide offer comprehensive financial services to clients in 35 countries and 800 offices throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia. Mizuho Americas is a leading provider of corporate and investment banking services to clients in the US, Canada, and Latin America. Through its acquisition of Greenhill, Mizuho provides M&A, restructuring and private capital advisory capabilities across Americas, Europe and Asia. Mizuho Americas employs approximately 3,500 professionals, and its capabilities span corporate and investment banking, capital markets, equity and fixed income sales & trading, derivatives, FX, custody and research. Visit www.mizuhoamericas.com.

Mizuho Americas offers a competitive total rewards package.

We are an EEO/AA Employer - M/F/Disability/Veteran. We participate in the E-Verify program. We maintain a drug-free workplace and reserve the right to require pre- and post-hire drug testing as permitted by applicable law.