Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. Our client is a company who is a provider of banking and financial services. The company operates through two divisions Retail Banking and Services and Corporate and Institutional Banking
Position: Application Production Support Specialist
Location: Montr al QC H3A 2A6
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Onsite
Shift: 8:00am to 5:00pm
Job Description:
MISSION AND OBJECTIVES:
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The APS Analyst (Analyst) is responsible and accountable for daily support and health of the production environment for Regulatory Controls IT.
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Such tasks include change request incident and problem management for the department.
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The incumbent will be required to provide solutions to technical issues in a short time frame.
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Act as a technical point of contact for all application related issues.
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Troubleshoot the issues by meticulous analysis of database objects and respective servers look for consistent improvements and communicate the impact and resolution to the requestor.
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Work further on automating SQL and Linux scripting to display continuous improvement and work towards stabilizing the applications health.
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Assist the user community to resolve technical issues.
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Coverage during weekend and offhours are on an as needed basis.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
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Manage daily operations requests for assistance and oversee the production applications
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Ensure issues are identified tracked reported on and resolved in a timely manner
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Manage operations expectations effectively and participate to any task force required by operations if needed
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Perform level 1 and 2 support and complex analysis of reported issues and evaluate alternative business solutions and workarounds to minimize the impacts
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Prepare Test strategy Test scenarios and test cases for the defects identified
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Guarantee the escalation of problems to the adequate IT organization (local global internal or external groups service providers or entities) to ensure ontime resolution; manage priorities depending on the criticality of the requests and production failures.
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Be flexible with Support hours and to supplement Global support team for resolving any production related issues.
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Liaison and discussion with the client Paris central teams for all parameterization related issues and any other functional advise on reported issues or proposed solutions
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Work with external infrastructure monitoring and DBA team to fix the incidents.
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Ensure a smooth follow up of all technical processes (Online STP and batches )
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Understand the database concepts and provide extractions to users whenever required
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Participate to the night support of the application and undertake the appropriate actions both functional and technical
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Closely follow up of all generated logs (Online STP batches) and alerts and monitor the flows dashboards
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Ensures presence monitoring and checks during application rollouts and DR exercises.
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Guarantees optimal working of the application providing technical support and adhoc recovery plans
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Ensure excellent Communication reporting and escalation as and when needed.
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Responsible and accountable to strictly and consistently adhere to CIB2S NAR IT Governance policies and procedures Incident management Vendor management and change management
QUALIFICATIONS
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fields; Post graduation on technical area are considered a plus.
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Minimum 6 years financial industry experience with an emphasis on Custody activity
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Prior business analysis experience in an application support environment
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Experience with PL/SQL developer
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Familiarity with Autosys Quality Center Sailpoint ServiceNow and Jira.
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Experience in Custodian Industry is a must.
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Prior experience working on Banking application is a strong plus.
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Prior experience creating requirements documents functional specifications process flow diagrams and procedures
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Strong knowledge of asset setup corporate actions tax domestic settlements income or cash processing is a must in custody domain (at least 2 of these).
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Good written and spoken English is a must.
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Strong Corporate Actions/Tax knowledge in US Market is a major plus
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Overall General IT knowledge is a must
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.