Application Support Specialist – New York
IT Application Support Analyst– Global Asset Management
Area Overview:
The IT Application Support analyst works in partnership with Development to deploy and support a suite of applications. These include trade capture, risk, order routing, portfolio management, and market connectivity solutions.
Job Description:
The candidate will be required to provide 1st line support to business users. The candidate needs to have good communication and interpersonal skills. The candidate needs to be able to perform varied tasks to support applications, middleware systems, databases and servers to ensure application stability for the user community. We are looking for a team player with a desire to work with a diverse user community.
This is a Front office role with the following responsibilities:
- Act as the focal point for managing user inquiries with business applications
- Work with vendors, internal development and business to deploy, maintain and configure custom applications and build new environments as required
- Train users on functional use of the system
- Write and maintain document processes, user guides and test cases
- Provide technical solutions to automate processes to improve business operations
- Provide coverage on database (MS SQL Server and Oracle)
- Create reports for business users using SQL querying database (MS SQL Server and Oracle)
- Implement and support cloud architecture (AWS)
- Design and develop scripts to automate operational tasks, maintenance and monitoring
- Provide after-hours problem escalation coverage
- Install patches updates and determine impact on applications
- Administer and enforce IT standards and processes
- Manage release on production environments
Education/Certification:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience