Murex Configuration and Environment Manager

Role: Murex Configuration and Environment Manager

Location: Remote (USA)

Job Type: Long Term Contract

Responsibilities

• Have and provide a production overview across the bank
  • Be the central point of contact to provide an overview of the production health for technology
  • Proactively monitor the environment at a top level for abnormalities using telemetry and perform more focused investigations when necessary
  • Correlate cross-stream issues/events
• Run and support incident management o Actively manage all SEV 1 to 3 Major Incidents
  • Overview of all SEV 4s, their current state and related escalations
  • Trends and abnormal volumes of SEV 5s and unstructured requests
  • Manage SEV 4 incidents when they have the potential to escalate
• Control and ensure the quality of incident communications
  • Have an overview of all incident notifications released o
  • Be accountable for the content of all major incident notifications
  • Provide quality content for cross-stream major incident notifications
  • Be accountable for the quality and hygiene of all stream incident notifications
• Run and support Mission Control Command & Control activities
  • Be aware of the change portfolio / activities and communicate these effectively
  • Understand the effect of significant client environment events, financial events and market news
• Establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with functional counterparts of the other Technology Services Degree in Computer Science Engineering or Information Technology Engineering (or related discipline) Preferred
• At least 2 years of experience in a CI/CD environment
• Proficiency in CI tools like Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps and others.
• Strong understanding of version control systems such as GIT.
• Experience with automation tools and scripting languages.
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, etc)
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work under pressure.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Ability to train and mentor team members.
• Knowledge of technical machine specifications
• Knowledge of XML manipulation
• Knowledge of UNIX Operation
• Knowledge of RDMS Operation
• Understanding of the Financial market.

Skills Must have

• Strong working knowledge of Murex Configuration and Environment management
• Strong knowledge of scheduler software (e.g. Tidal, Autosys, JAMS, ...etc.)
• Good understanding of MXTest
• Good product knowledge/understanding in IRD, CRD, EQD, FXD
• Good understanding of Workflows, Operations, Fixings process, Confirmations, and Trade Life Cycle
• Strong functional and technical understanding of Murex
• Good knowledge of the different post-trade interactions between the various actors of capital markets including service providers

Must:

• previous experience, min 2yrs, with Murex Environment management
• MXTest Module (a plus)
• Must have strong personality, logical and analytical skills
• Be detailed-oriented, a quick learner and self-starter
• Possess good verbal and written communication skills
• Must have strong organization skills
• Good SQL, Unix , Scripting , Sybase and Oracle skills

Nice to have

• Understanding of Test management
• Understanding of Trade life cycle
• Understanding of Market Data management
• Client focus: understands clients' businesses; identifies and understands the needs and objectives of clients, both on an individual and corporate basis; builds strong relationships to aid Luxoft's aim of being a trusted partner to the clients.
• Communication skills: expresses ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing; adjusts language, terminology and non-verbal communication as appropriate.
• Teamwork: works effectively with others; helps to build strong teams and networks.
• Personal leadership: realistically identifies own skills, experience, knowledge and other personal attributes; displays confidence and resilience.
• Planning and organizing: identifies and meets milestones; understands and articulates deliverables; assesses and mitigates risks; sticks to the scope of work and manages any changes.
• Analytical decision-making: identifies and solves problems using insight and experience to make good decisions; gathers relevant information, identifying important issues and drawing conclusions.