Swift Production Support Specialist - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers
Description
OUTSIDE IR35 ROLE
TEKsystems is currently engaged with a financial services company to recruit a SWIFT Production Support Analyst. Application Production Support's primary responsibilities are identification and resolution of production incidents.
**The role also includes
Capacity and Performance Management.
Working with development teams for take-on and training of new services or significant upgrades.
Providing support for Audits (internal and external).
Stakeholder management, working closely with Business and Operations partners to understand KPI metrics to measure service stability to prioritize defect fixes and enhancements
**Required Skills: 5+ years of relevant IT experience (Production Support, ITIL, Release Support, Technical Implementations, or equivalent)
- Demonstrate flexibility, navigate ambiguity, and quickly establish credibility among technical peers
Proven knowledge in some or all of the following:
Java/J2EE - Core Java, JDBC, EJB, & Java Web Services & Experience in Server-side technologies - SOAP/Restful services, XML/XSLT, XML, JDBC, AOP, MQ MicroServices & MuleSoft.
Strong operating system knowledge in Unix and Windows including strong scripting skillsExperience with Database technologies (examples Oracle, DB2 and PL/SQL ) queries to support incident resolution.
Knowledge of event driven and schedule driven batch processes
Experience of handling various production support roles (technical - L1/L2/L3) and hands-on experience in using at least 2-3 widely used monitoring / scheduling tools- Experience troubleshooting, analysis, research, and resolution using advanced query, programming skills, conduct root cause analysis, and identify mitigations/riskAbility to work closely with Technology Infrastructure Teams, Development & Testing Teams in supporting Integrated / Independent releases, software/hardware upgrades, server upgrades, etc.
- Ability to assess initial severity, gather impacts, engage necessary supporting teams, and escalate as necessary to ensure timely restoration
Working on some weekends and bank holidays as part of a 5 day week shift pattern
**Desired Skills: Leads End-to-End maintenance responsibility of all production services related to technology.
Work activities specific to Production Shared Services include:
Problem/Incident Management, Release/Deployment, Operational Readiness, Capacity/AvailabilityManagement, Application Monitoring, Service Analytics and Reporting, Production Governance, Triage, Associate Support, Change/Configuration Management.
Actively engage and lead production support issues/incidents. Takes ownership of escalations and perform trouble shooting, analysis, research and resolution.Ensure production and performance SLAs are met and escalate issues which needs attention.
Performs analytical, technical, and administrative work in planning, installing, and supporting new and existing equipment and software under moderate supervision.
- Identifies vulnerabilities and opportunities for improvement, as well as maintain metrics to help develop analysis that will drive improvement in all areas of Production Shared Services. Creates and enhances administrative, operational and technicalpolicies and procedures, adopting best practice guidelines, process improvements, standards and procedures.
experience
Minimum of 5 years' experience support SWIFT Alliance Access and SWIFT Alliance Gateway Applications. Ideally in a production support role
In depth knowledge of SWIFT protocols (FIN/Interact/FileAct/Browse/RMA) and Market Infrastructures; messaging formats (MT/MX and ISO20022); PKI certificates. SAA Routing and Message Partner configuration and setups.
Please note this role is based in Bromley 3 days a week onsite.
Job Title:
Swift Production Support Specialist
Location:
London, UK
Rate/Salary:
GBP Daily
Job Type:
Contract
Trading as TEKsystems. Allegis Group Limited, Maxis 2, Western Road, Bracknell, RG12 1RT, United Kingdom.
No Allegis Group Limited operates as an Employment Business and Employment Agency as set out in the Conduct of Employment Agencies and EmploymentBusinesses Regulations 2003.
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