AI-Driven Trading Systems Reliability Specialist

FirstRand Bank Limited; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

FirstRand Bank Limited is seeking a proactive Trading Systems Support Analyst/Specialist to ensure operational health of production services across market access, pricing, execution, trade capture, risk, and settlement. You will diagnose complex issues, coordinate restorations, and drive improvements through monitoring, AIOps and automation.

Strong collaboration with vendors and stakeholders is essential. The role requires experience in trading systems, APIs, monitoring tools, and SDLC

Qualifications

• Diploma, IT, Degree, Business Intelligence or related qualification.
• Experience with AI and AI-related projects implementation.
• 2-5 years’ experience in Trading Systems across asset classes.
• Experience in APIs and FICS Protocol basics.
• Experience in monitoring and alerting tools.
• Experience in scheduling tools.
• Experience with databases and networking protocols basics.
• Experience in SQL.
• Understanding of SDLC.
• Basic understanding of backups.

Responsibilities

• Owns operational health of production services; diagnose complex issues and coordinate restoration.
• Support change and release activity; engineer preventative improvements through monitoring and automation.
• Perform incident management: own incidents until resolved and communicate outcomes.
• Maintain security administration processes and ensure requests are handled per procedures.
• Scope, plan, and execute tasks including defects, upgrades, enhancements and projects.
• Facilitate workshops to elicit and validate requirements; document requirements for stakeholders.

Skills

AI exposure

AI project experience

SDLC understanding

SQL knowledge

Networking basics

Education

Diploma/IT/related qualification

2-5 years in Trading Systems across asset classes

Tools

APIs & FICS protocol basics

Monitoring & alerting tools

Scheduling tools

Databases & networking basics

SQL

Job description

FirstRand Bank Limited is seeking a proactive Trading Systems Support Analyst/Specialist to ensure operational health of production services across market access, pricing, execution, trade capture, risk, and settlement. You will diagnose complex issues, coordinate restorations, and drive improvements through monitoring, AIOps and automation.

Strong collaboration with vendors and stakeholders is essential. The role requires experience in trading systems, APIs, monitoring tools, and SDLC