Mainframe Engineer

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Job Title Senior Software Engineer Mainframe Date required asap

Location Client, Uetlihof, Zürich Job Type Full-time

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This role is within the Global Trading Solutions (GTS) organisation, supporting a global business based out of Switzerland. We own, support and act as the gatekeepers of the Production environment for Execution & Agency systems used globally by thousands of users ranging from Internal users (Relationship Managers, Execution-Desks, Mid-&Back-Office) to External Clients (Individual investors and Large Institutions trading electronically). We are looking for people who have technical problem solving and investigative skills plus strong communication and user facing skills.

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Primarily, this role will be responsible for providing day-to-day technical support on the mainframe software applications used across Client's Execution & Agency businesses. Your role includes working on incidents and problems as well as contributing to the team’s delivery to our business clients and technical stakeholders. Your solutions will directly benefit our internal users and external clients. This is an excellent opportunity to further a career in technology through a challenging role responsible for supporting mission-critical software. Key tasks include: · Build and maintain positive relationships with our key partners particularly with the business users and application development teams to provide a point of contact for IT issues in this space. · Investigate current issues in order to provide our business with solutions or workarounds to minimize business impact and especially external client impact. · Coordinate with other Client IT teams to resolve complex issues across systems owned by different departments. · Responsibility for root cause analysis to ensure issues are permanently fixed in order to improve the quality of our platform and the user/client experience. · Lead major incident resolution to ensure that incidents that may have an adverse impact are appropriately resolved. · Drive improvements across software applications including monitoring and automation. There is on call rota that deals with out of hours critical incidents (this is just an on-call service – not night shift)

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§ Graduate degree or higher education in Economics, Computer Science or equivalent § 5+ years’ experience in IBM Mainframe, Z/OS, PL/1, (IMS-DC), DB2 and SQL. § Second Program Language, e.g. JAVA (Angular, Spring Boot) or motivated to learn it on the job § No reservations to jump into new development opportunities and open minded to join our DevOps journey § You are a result-orientated team player with a pragmatic approach and good communication skills in English. Additional German skills are an advantage. § Ability to work with other people both in IT and on the business side and under pressure.

§ Experience in technical troubleshooting and problem solving. § Understanding of modern financial instruments and trading business flows is a big plus § Understands the value of diversity in the workplace and is dedicated to fostering an inclusive culture in all aspects of working life so that people from all backgrounds receive equal treatment, realize their full potential and can bring their full, authentic selves to work

Job type: Permanent Division: eTeam Workforce Limited Reference: 21-04622