Technology Support Lead, Prime Finance and Clearing Production Management Support

Join our dynamic team to innovate and refine technology operations impacting the core of our business services.

As a Technology Support Lead in the Corporate & Investment Banking Technology Prime Finance & Clearing Production Management Support team you will play a senior role in ensuring the operational stability availability and performance of our production services across APAC. You will lead production support for Prime Finance functions including locates management inventory management borrow/return optimization synthetic prime client reporting and broader Prime Brokerage activities across a complex integrated application suite. Partnering closely with Business and Technology stakeholders you will drive timely analysis and resolution of daytoday issues safe and reliable releases effective incident/crisis management and strong adherence to Risk & Controls while mentoring the team and setting standards for operational excellence.

Job responsibilities

• Lead daytoday technical and operational support for Front and Middle Office applications to ensure stability availability and performance across APAC serving as the primary escalation point for critical issues.
• Own support for endtoend trade lifecycle applications (e.g. locates trade booking synthetic trade booking) ensuring resilient and wellcontrolled operations.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships across Production Management (APAC/global) Business and Technology stakeholders; communicate status and remediation plans clearly and confidently at senior levels.
• Partner with Application Development (AD) to implement fixes and stability enhancements that reduce operational risk and eliminate manual touches to production; champion SRE/DevOps practices.
• Define track and report capacity resiliency and reliability metrics; strengthen failover and business continuity (BCP) capabilities and lead DR planning/execution.
• Enhance observability and monitoring for the Prime trading application suite; evolve standard tooling and establish proactive detection and autoremediation patterns.
• Manage production incidents endtoend including rapid triage stakeholder engagement vendor coordination and clear timely communications from incident through service restoration.
• Lead detailed postmortems with AD; document root cause define preventative actions and track followups in ServiceNow for Problem Management to drive recurrence prevention.
• Engage throughout the SDLC to ensure robust nonfunctional readiness and smooth onboarding of new applications and features into Production.
• Plan review and execute application change releases with Business AD and QA to minimize changerelated incidents including offhours/weekend and DR activities as required.
• Uphold firm Risk & Controls standards across incident change and problem management; conduct regular stability reviews and act as regional subjectmatter expert for assigned Prime products and applications.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Computer Science Information Technology or equivalent.
• Formal training and certification with at least 5 years of experience (or equivalent expertise) in production support or technology operations within financial services with strong exposure to trade processing and fronttoback workflows.
• Product knowledge in stock borrow/loan and synthetic prime brokerage; proven experience supporting trade booking platforms.
• Excellent SQL and stored procedure skills; experience with Sybase and Oracle.
• Proficiency in Linux/UNIX and strong scripting skills (Perl Shell); ability to automate routine operational tasks.
• Handson experience with ITRS Geneos and modern observability practices; familiarity with alert tuning and runbook automation.
• Understanding of networking connectivity and lowlatency trading environments; ability to diagnose complex multisystem issues.
• Strong analysis problemsolving and investigation skills; demonstrated ability to prioritize and perform under pressure with high attention to detail and an ownership/leadership mindset.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage senior stakeholders and drive consensus.
• Experience executing processes aligned to the ITIL framework across incident problem and change management.

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Experience participating in disaster recovery testing and weekend release activities; prior leadership of DR events is a plus.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow Problem Management workflows and metricdriven service improvement.
• Experience enhancing monitoring and observability for trading applications including metric design and dashboarding.
• Exposure to automation and SRE initiatives (e.g. selfhealing release automation) that reduce manual tasks and improve production stability.
• Working knowledge of one or more generalpurpose programming languages (e.g. Python) and/or infrastructure automation in hybrid/onprem and public cloud environments.