Senior Application Specialist - FinTech IT & DevOps

CO_AFSLGO Apex Fund Services Holdings Ltd.; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Apex Group in Cape Town seeks a Senior Application Specialist to maintain, install and optimize finance software applications, collaborating with IT and end users across deployments and releases.

The role emphasizes troubleshooting, performance tuning, scripting, and contributing to DevOps/Agile teams; candidates should have 5+ years in IT application support within financial services and strong communication in English.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5+ years' experience in IT application support within the financial sector.
• Experience in Change and Release Management.
• Understanding of IT services, including applications landscape and business applications.
• Knowledge of Olympic Banking System is advantageous.
• Experience with SWIFT and FIX messaging.
• Experience with SSRS and Abacus.
• Experience with ServiceNow.
• Scripting knowledge (Linux/Solaris, PowerShell).
• SQL/PLSQL experience.
• FTP/SFTP experience (Globalscape).
• Strong communication with technical and business stakeholders.
• Fluent English; German or French advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance and support of the Applications landscape including reporting solution / interface
• Ensure adherence to change management and release management procedures
• Working closely with other team members and end users
• Contribution of releases in collaboration with development teams
• Support the development of customer centric systems and processes in collaboration with other business teams to deliver best in class customer experiences
• Ensure the application support included front end, middle ware and back-end system.
• Close attention to detail and diagnostic skills / ability to logically think problems through to a final resolution
• Participate actively to testing phase for new application development, enhancement.

Skills

IT application support

Change and Release Management

IT services

Olympic Banking System

SWIFT

FIX

SQL/PLSQL

Scripting

SSRS

Abacus

ServiceNow

FTP/SFTP (Globalscape)

Scripting (PowerShell)

English (fluent)

German/French advantageous

Tools

SSRS

Abacus

ServiceNow

Globalscape

PowerShell

Job description

Apex Group in Cape Town seeks a Senior Application Specialist to maintain, install and optimize finance software applications, collaborating with IT and end users across deployments and releases.

The role emphasizes troubleshooting, performance tuning, scripting, and contributing to DevOps/Agile teams; candidates should have 5+ years in IT application support within financial services and strong communication in English.