Application Programmer III

Introduction

This role requires an experienced professional who can thrive in a high-pressure trading environment. The candidate will be responsible for supporting the FICC Risk operations, requiring strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• The ability to rationalize the impact of multiple concurrent issues/requests and prioritize work accordingly
• An independent sense of motivation to continuously improve themselves and their environment
• An intuitive problem-solving ability, leading to solution alternatives that reflect a diverse foundation of knowledge, skills, and experiences
• Confidence, focus, and adaptable communication style for coordinating restoration efforts for high-impact technology incidents
• Prior work experience at the client or in the client's industry

Applicants must be able to work directly for Artech on W2.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Experience with operating systems: Solaris, Linux, Windows
• Proficiency in scripting languages: Unix Shell, Perl, Python, SQL (Intermediate level: multi-table joins, grouping results, etc.)
• Understanding of grid computing and batch management

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• First point of contact for business requests and reported impacts
• Monitoring and alerting of critical trading system environments
• Release implementation and post-release testing
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with business stakeholders, application development personnel, and infrastructure contacts
• Troubleshooting of complex systems issues and proactive identification and resolution of problem hotspots
• Development of tools and driving efficiency/stability improvements

For immediate consideration, please click APPLY to begin the screening process with Alex.