Description

Provide thought & technical leadership for the key initiatives.

Developing and maintaining architecture solutions on a platform dedicated to high scale processing of large amounts of data.

Setting, communicating, and reinforcing technical standards

Providing leadership for junior and senior engineers alike, by understanding how to leverage and enhance their current skills

Assessing and researching current implementations of the platform and determining the course of action required to elevate the platform to meet customer needs.

Working with Operations to plan major infrastructure upgrades, to troubleshoot issues and to tune the environment for optimal performance and uptime

Collaborating with peers and management on process improvement ideas, policy and procedure enhancements, and opportunities to improve our customer's service experience.

Participating in code review and unit testing and providing support on issues in non-prod or production

Basic Qualifications:

5+ years of experience in information technology.

Financial services experience, preferably in Brokerage Domain

5+ years on CICS, COBOL, DB2, VSAM and JCL.

5+ years CICS System knowledge would be valuable.

Preferred Skills:

Good understanding of CICS Dynamic Transaction Routing process.

Should be familiar with DB2 tools, File-Aid, scheduler and debugger tools.

Understanding of Distributed Applications/ System

Exposure to Brokerage/Finance domain will be an added advantage

Prior experience of working in highly transactional, fault tolerant and data driven systems.

Ability to identify areas of risk or potential problems and take action to mitigate them and work with less experienced staff to mitigate more complex issues.

Ability to apply different communication and leadership styles for different teams and geographies.

Ability to lead through influence and know what data is needed to drive effective decisions

Ability to assess and plan project, and stakeholders needs, and manage deadlines, risks.

Ability to anticipate roadblocks, diagnose problems and generate effective solutions

Ability to build communication and rapport with partners, stakeholders.

Ability to adapt in a changing environment and be effective in many different business settings.

Ability to take initiative, define vision for betterment of products, and execute at high level of quality

Ability to plan and work with geographically spread out teams

Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.

Curiosity to constantly relearn/explore new processes/technologies

Education:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar subject

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree