Murex Configuration and Environment Manager

Summary

Luxoft is a top-tier Murex Alliance Partner and a market leader in implementation, integration, upgrade, and migration in the financial services sector. The Murex Configuration and Environment Manager will oversee production stability, manage incidents, and maintain collaborative relationships across technology services.

Responsibilities

• Are you passionate about IT production stability? We are looking for someone to
• Have and provide a production overview across the bank
• Be the central point of contact to provide an overview of the production health for technology
• Proactively monitor the environment at a top level for abnormalities using telemetry and perform more focused investigations when necessary
• Correlate cross-stream issues/events
• Run and support incident management
• Actively manage all SEV 1 to 3 Major Incidents
• Overview of all SEV 4s, their current state and related escalations
• Trends and abnormal volumes of SEV 5s and unstructured requests
• Manage SEV 4 incidents when they have the potential to escalate
• Control and ensure the quality of incident communications
• Have an overview of all incident notifications released
• Be accountable for the content of all major incident notifications
• Provide quality content for cross-stream major incident notifications
• Be accountable for the quality and hygiene of all stream incident notifications
• Run and support Mission Control Command & Control activities
• Be aware of the change portfolio / activities and communicate these effectively
• Understand the effect of significant client environment events, financial events and market news
• Establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with functional counterparts of the other Technology Services

Skills

• Strong working knowledge of Murex Configuration and Environment management
• Strong knowledge of scheduler software (e.g. Tidal, Autosys, JAMS, ...etc.)
• Good understanding of MXTest
• Good product knowledge/understanding in IRD, CRD, EQD, FXD
• Good understanding of Workflows, Operations, Fixings process, Confirmations, and Trade Life Cycle
• Strong functional and technical understanding of Murex
• Good knowledge of the different post-trade interactions between the various actors of capital markets including service providers
• Previous experience, min 2yrs, with Murex Environment management
• MXTest Module (a plus)
• Must have strong personality, logical and analytical skills
• Be detailed-oriented, a quick learner and self-starter
• Possess good verbal and written communication skills
• Must have strong organization skills
• Good SQL, Unix , Scripting , Sybase and Oracle skills
• At least 2 years of experience in a CI/CD environment
• Proficiency in CI tools like Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps and others
• Strong understanding of version control systems such as GIT
• Experience with automation tools and scripting languages
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, etc)
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work under pressure
• Strong communication and leadership skills
• Ability to train and mentor team members
• Knowledge of technical machine specifications
• Knowledge of XML manipulation
• Knowledge of UNIX Operation
• Knowledge of RDMS Operation
• Understanding of the Financial market

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Strong working knowledge of Murex Configuration and Environment management
• Strong knowledge of scheduler software (e.g. Tidal, Autosys, JAMS, ...etc.)
• Good understanding of MXTest
• Good product knowledge/understanding in IRD, CRD, EQD, FXD
• Good understanding of Workflows, Operations, Fixings process, Confirmations, and Trade Life Cycle
• Strong functional and technical understanding of Murex
• Good knowledge of the different post-trade interactions between the various actors of capital markets including service providers
• previous experience, min 2yrs, with Murex Environment management
• MXTest Module (a plus)
• Must have strong personality, logical and analytical skills
• Be detailed-oriented, a quick learner and self-starter
• Possess good verbal and written communication skills
• Must have strong organization skills
• Good SQL, Unix , Scripting , Sybase and Oracle skills

Nice to Haves

• At least 2 years of experience in a CI/CD environment
• Proficiency in CI tools like Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps and others
• Strong understanding of version control systems such as GIT
• Experience with automation tools and scripting languages
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, etc)
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work under pressure
• Strong communication and leadership skills
• Ability to train and mentor team members
• Knowledge of technical machine specifications
• Knowledge of XML manipulation
• Knowledge of UNIX Operation
• Knowledge of RDMS Operation
• Understanding of the Financial market