Head of Application Support

• Posted 23 hours ago • Updated 23 hours ago
Full Time
On-site
USD $300,000.00 - 350,000.00 per year
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Job Details

Skills

  • Operational Excellence
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Trading
  • Workflow
  • SLA
  • Communication
  • Reporting
  • Incident Management
  • Customer Communications
  • Recruiting
  • Onboarding
  • Performance Management
  • Issue Resolution
  • Application Support
  • Financial Services
  • Management
  • Customer Facing
  • Scratch
  • Presentations
  • Financial Information eXchange
  • Log Analysis
  • Routing
  • Grafana
  • Splunk
  • Unix
  • Linux
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Operating Systems
  • Scripting
  • Python
  • Shell
  • Perl
  • Computer Networking
  • TCP/IP
  • SQL
  • IT Service Management
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • Dynamics
  • Salesforce.com

Summary

Job Description

The Head of Application Support will play a crucial role in defining and executing our application support vision for FMX. This involves overseeing first-line support operations, leading major incident responses, and driving operational excellence through automation and AI tooling. The successful candidate will have a proven track record in managing global support teams and a deep understanding of electronic trading workflows and FIX protocols.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute a comprehensive application support strategy for FMX, including team structure, tooling, and service quality targets.
  • Design and implement an efficient case management workflow for external client incidents and requests, defining SLA tiers and escalation paths.
  • Oversee first-line support operations, ensuring consistent client communication standards for incident triage, FIX connectivity, and trade lookups.
  • Own support metrics and resource utilization reporting, using data to drive staffing decisions and brief senior management.
  • Lead major incident response across FMX platforms, managing client communications and ensuring post-incident reviews with tracked actions.
  • Chair stability reviews with executive stakeholders and represent the support function in cross-functional forums.
  • Develop and enforce operational runbooks and SOPs, championing automation to reduce manual overhead.
  • Directly manage a global team of ~10 staff, owning recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and development planning.
  • Maintain hands-on knowledge of FMX platforms and contribute to complex issue resolution through log analysis and diagnostics.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in application support or production operations in financial services, with 3+ years in a management role.
  • Proven experience managing multi-region support teams covering client-facing and technical functions.
  • Ability to design support frameworks and operational protocols, with a transformation or from-scratch context.
  • Comfortable presenting to executive stakeholders in IT and business functions.
  • Strong working knowledge of FIX Protocol, connectivity, log analysis, and order routing.
  • Proficiency in monitoring tools like Grafana, Splunk, and OpsBridge, as well as Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems.
  • Experience with scripting languages (Python, Shell, Perl) for automation and support tooling.
  • Understanding of networking concepts and TCP/IP, with skills in PCAP analysis and latency diagnostics.
  • Working knowledge of SQL for log and data investigation, and experience with ITSM tooling (Jira, Confluence, Dynamics, Salesforce).

Compensation Expectations: $300,000 - $350,000 Total Comp

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  • Dice Id: 90922487
  • Position Id: 24475188
  • Posted 23 hours ago
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