Northern Trust

Lead, SW Support

Posted on: 14 Apr 2023

Chicago, IL

Job Description

ROLE:

NTAM Application Support has responsibility for the technical support of our Asset Management portfolio and order management, trade routing, and other top 100 applications. This role will support our NTAM business and operations partners and clients and will liaise with upstream and downstream application teams.

The ideal candidates will be self-starters with excellent communication skills and a solid understanding of technology in a financial institution, including trade applications. Some night/weekend may be required from time to time. Candidate should be available Monday – Friday with individual schedules based on coverage rotation/duties.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Candidate will be responsible to provide L1/L2/L3 Support, Monitor and provide support to production streams and provide expert knowledge on all workflow designs for supported applications.
Candidate should be able to troubleshoot (review, analyze and resolve) production issue including job failure, and able to apply code fix on need basis.
Candidate should be able to work with Business partners to analyze and resolve their queries and ensure compliance to all controlled processes according to business and IT requirement.
Candidate should have a general understanding of financial services industry and be able to work with business partners to understand small enhancements and work on code, test and deploy the change.
Develop and maintain professional relationship with all stakeholders within IT and Business teams and provide support.
Monitor and attend to all alerts and escalate production issues as needed to relevant teams and management.
Coordinate with various teams including offshore support staff and raise support ticket for all issues, analyze root cause and assist in efficient resolution of all production processes.
Candidate will be responsible to attend on-call after office hours including weekend to support High and Critical production issue.
Actively contribute to the supportability of the applications as well as continuous service improvement projects.
Develop understanding of NT’s systems and products utilizing reference materials and support procedures.
Present IT in a professional manner, exhibit customer service values in line with NT’s A Approach.
Adherence to corporate standards at all times.

SKILLS / EXPERIENCE:

7+ years of experience in a technical business facing (face to face) role within a financial institution or similar preferred.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, along with a solid technical background are essential as is the ability to multitask in a fast paced environment. The ideal candidate should be able to explain technical issues in layman’s terms and translate business needs to technology teams and back.
Team player will be working as part of a global support team, cross training and supporting multiple critical Asset management front office applications.
Experience in incident management, understanding of ticket workflows and use of escalation. Experience with ServiceNow is beneficial.
Problem resolution in an analytical manner, to troubleshoot root cause and resolve production incidents.
Individuals who embrace AGILE principles and practices

Experience in SCRUM and KANBAN framework

Experience in DevOps technical practices

AWS Code pipeline, Azure DevOps Codepipeline

Extensive Knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL & Unix/Linux Commands and scripting
Knowledge of IBM Datastage (ETL Tool), Snowflake
Knowledge of trading application such as Charles River, Blackrock, Eagle is preferred
Domain knowledge of Asset Management, Trade lifecycle and Reference data (Price and security)

Northern Trust

Chicago, IL

For more than a century, Northern Trust has worked hard building our legacy of outstanding service, expertise and integrity. From a Chicago-based bank founded in 1889, we now have more than 20 international locations and over 16,500 employees globally. We serve the ... Read more

Mission: Every day, we challenge ourselves to leverage our strength and stability in innovative new ways. We strive to forge deeper connections and help our clients achieve bigger goals. And by working more globally than ever before, we continually push new technologies and ideas forward.

Because for us, Achieve Greater goes far beyond a promise to our clients. It’s an ongoing expectation we have for ourselves.

 

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