Our Massachusetts based client is seeking a Production Support Engineer/Developer for a contract role.
Candidates must be able to work on our W2.
No corp-to-corp submissions accepted for this role.
Top skills required for the Production Support Engineer/Developer
- Minimum of 5 years corporate development experience in an investment management environment
- Bachelor’s degree
- Preferred candidate will have background supporting large financial and investment systems in a corporate environment with fixed income and derivative securities data experience a plus.
- Expertise with understanding, maintaining, and debugging/triaging complex SQL and Angular UI application
Benefits:
As a W2 contract employee of Fast Switch you are eligible to participate in the following benefits we offer:
- Our 401(k) has a 3% match that vests immediately.
- Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Our healthcare plan is a high deductible plan with a health savings account (HSA). The deductions will be withheld pre-tax, saving you taxes on the premium.
- Short and Long Term Disability insurance is provided to all eligible Team Members.
Production Support Engineer/Developer Overview
The Investment Management middle office Production Support Developer has a combination of experience in technical, investment, and people skills working in a fast paced, innovative, and collaborative environment. Both emotional intelligence and the ability to solve complex problems and communicate effectively are key to success. Ideally, candidate will have a strong background in Angular and MS-SQL application support and related technical stack to support the migration of a new application to production and subsequent support as the application is enhanced as well as triage any production issues that arise. Looking for a well-rounded individual that is familiar with problem solving; reporting and escalation; production support procedures and related activities; release management; change management; and comfortable working with business users, business analysts, product owners, developers, and related interfacing support teams.
Responsibilities
- Support migration of a large SQL and Angular UI application into production
- Provide on-call production application triage and resolution for a major financial application
- Lead periodic application releases into deployment in an Agile JIRA Scrum environment
- Schedule changes using standard policy and procedures
- Set up and support of batch job scheduling and execution (TWS)
- ETL (Informatica) support experience
- Support the development of minor BAU application enhancements to support the business
- Manage all the stages of software development production support lifecycle
- Provide problem summaries, resolution plans, and timeframes to various stakeholders and escalation channels using corporate procedures and guidelines
- Assist with corporate compliance requirements related to implementation and support
- Document support plans and changes to application and environment
Requirements
- Preferred candidate will have background supporting large financial and investment systems in a corporate environment with fixed income and derivative securities data experience a plus.
- Ability to function well in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with competing priorities
- Ability to build strong working relationships across the organization
- Strong organizational skills with an eagerness to learn/apply knowledge and improve processes
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, in leading teams and coordinating with peers and other disciplines on driving issues to closure.
- Commitment to organizational excellence and constant awareness to seek opportunities to improve processes/quality of deliverables.
- Strong and effective team player in working with various disciplines and peer groups
- Familiarity with change management
- Expertise with understanding, maintaining, and debugging/triaging complex SQL and Angular UI application
- Ability to work with project teams to enhance application
- Experience using a DevOps delivery model
- Knowledgeable in migration of SQL Server to AWS cloud and related application support
- SQL Server Management Studio, Sqlcmd, and related batch scripting
- GitHub, CI/CD, Jenkins, Dockers, Nginx web servers, HTTP /REST, JIRA, and NFS experience
- TWS batch job scheduling and triage preferred
- HTML5, CSS3, Javascript (Angular) and Python (Angular)
- Understand and support/debug database constraints, indexes, stored procedures, functions, and triggers. Understand/use/manipulate queries along with script based database migrations
- Minimum of 5 years corporate development experience in an investment management environment
- Bachelor’s degree