Application Support Lead 🧑💻- Payments & FX 🧠-SQL & Scripting 🛠- Up to £95,000 + Bonus and Benefits 💷 -Permanent 🏢– London📍
An established Asset Manager is seeking a proactive Application Support Analyst to join their Front Office technology function. This is a hands-on role supporting business-critical trading and investment systems, where you’ll work closely with portfolio managers, traders, and cross-functional tech teams.
You’ll play a key role in ensuring the availability and reliability of trading applications—handling incident resolution, improving system performance, and contributing to the evolution of internal tooling. Strong technical skills in Python, SQL, and experience with AWS are essential.
🔍 Key Responsibilities:
Looking for a strong team lead from a technical background, leading a team in new and exciting Greenfield project.
Provide front-line support for core trading and investment platforms
Investigate and resolve real-time application issues, minimising disruption to the business
Write and maintain Python scripts for automation and support tooling
Manage and query databases using SQL; maintain awareness of data flows and schemas
Collaborate with infrastructure, engineering, and front office teams to maintain robust system performance
Participate in platform upgrades, deployments, and change management processes
Ensure best practices in monitoring, incident management, and operational support
🧠 What You’ll Bring:
Proven experience in an Application Support role within financial services, ideally asset management or trading
Strong Python scripting skills (essential)
Solid SQL knowledge for data investigation and reporting
Familiarity with AWS cloud-based environments
A deep understanding of the full trade lifecycle and investment operations
Background in supporting mission-critical systems across Windows and Linux environments
Knowledge of market data platforms, messaging protocols (e.g., FIX), or API integrations is a plus
Clear communicator with strong stakeholder engagement and documentation skills
Experience working within ITIL frameworks and regulated environments
💼 The Offer:
Salary: Up to £95,000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Location: London (Hybrid – 3 days in the office per week)
Contract: Permanent
If you’re looking to be part of a fast-paced and collaborative environment within a top-tier asset manager, and you enjoy solving complex technical problems that directly impact the business, we’d love to hear from you.
Please apply with your latest CV or reach out directly to veljko@virtuetech.io.
Application Support Lead 🧑💻- Payments & FX 🧠-SQL & Scripting 🛠- Up to £95,000 + Bonus and Benefits 💷 -Permanent 🏢– London📍