Application Support | PowerShell, SQL - Front Office, Energy Trading | £85,000 + Bonus + Benefits | 3 days onsite | LDN
Application Support Analyst is needed for a Cross Asset Trading House delivering both technical and procedural assistance to internal teams and external stakeholders in the front office. Acting as a key point of contact for issue resolutions, managing incidents, troubleshooting day-to-day application problems, and providing swift resolution of outages. This position involves close collaboration with infrastructure, service desk, and broader IT teams, requiring a proactive mindset and a strong sense of ownership across all support-related responsibilities.
Technologies include: PowerShell, SQL Server, Python Scripting
-This role will be working within the Front Office Teams and would require experience within Trading Platforms and understanding the full Trade Lifecycle. Day to day, this role will involve PowerShell scripting which is a key part of the role, and work in SQL including querying, tables, and schemas.
The Application Support Analyst is responsible for taking ownership of issues and providing procedural and technical support (using PowerShell, SQL, Python Scripting) to various teams and internal/external stakeholders. In addition to driving resolution of day-to-day issues, managing incidents and outages to resolution, this role requires a close partnership with the rest of the infrastructure team, the service desk and the wider IT group.
As an Application Support Analyst, you will get exposure to all front office and post-trade applications including trade capture, market data, settlement and clearing systems and their associated client applications, as well as overnight risk calculation systems
📍This Application Support Engineer role is permanent position.
📍Hybrid working. 3 days a week in the office. Closest station is Liverpool Street
💰 Paying up to £85,000 per annum. + Bonus + Benefits
🧑💻 PowerShell, SQL, Trade Lifecycle, and Financial Services
Experience required
* 5 years + Application Support experience ideally garnered within an energy, commodity or similar trading environment.
* Experience on a support desk responsible for front office production applications.
* Understanding of the trade lifecycle (ideally coupled with knowledge of the downstream technical and business processes).
* Technology skills in PowerShell, SQL, Python Scripting
* Able to manage incidents and service requests while providing timely status updates to users.
* Experience of a trading-based service delivery environment.
* Communication with the business and third-party vendors tracking delivery of vendor support and solutions and ensuring they meet SLAs.
* Experience in trading and risk management systems for commodities covering front to back-office is highly desirable.
* Liaison between technology department and business groups to communicate system changes.
Technical requirements
* Must evidence skills in SQL Server (2016 upwards) and/or Oracle (11G on)
* Knowledge of a scripting language (e.g. PowerShell)
* Create and deploy PowerShell scripts providing a range of business functions.
If you would like to apply, please send your latest CV to this post or directly to ross@virtuetech.io
Application Support Analyst | PowerShell, SQL - Front Office, Energy Trading | £85,000 + Bonus + Benefits | Permanent | 2-3 days onsite | London