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2nd Line Desktop Analyst

Lorien
Posted a month ago, valid for 6 days
Location

Birmingham, West Midlands B27 6QS, England

Salary

£24,000 - £28,800 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • Lorien's leading banking client is seeking 2nd Line Desktop Support Analysts for a 6-month contract, requiring twice monthly onsite presence in Castle Donnington, with remote work otherwise.
  • Candidates should have experience in Agile or DevOps environments and a solid understanding of operational principles, as well as strong communication skills to convey technical concepts.
  • The role involves maintaining platform integrity, supporting remote desktop access, and ensuring compliance with security standards.
  • Successful applicants will contribute to incident ticket reduction, risk management, and the delivery of regulatory reporting, while fostering collaboration with cross-domain stakeholders.
  • The position offers a salary of £350 per day.

2nd Line Desktop Support Analyst

6 Month Contract

Via Umbrella

Twice per month onsite in Castle Donnington (Remote working Otherwise)

Lorien's leading banking client are looking for 2nd Line Desktop Support Analysts to join them on a contract basis on an initial contract through to the end of the year.

Join us as an Infrastructure Analyst within Colleague Platforms

  • Hone your analytical skills as you provide support to ensure the operational health of the platform, covering all aspects of service, risk, cost and people
  • You'll be supporting the platforms' operational stability and technology performance, including maintaining any system's utilities and tools provided by the platform
  • This is an opportunity to learn a variety of new skills in a constantly evolving environment, working closely with feature teams to continuously enhance your development

What you'll do:

As an Infrastructure Analyst in the Remote Access Support team, you'll be providing input to and supporting the team's activities to make sure that the platform integrity is maintained in line with technical roadmaps, while supporting change demands from domains or centres of excellence. You'll be supporting the delivery of a robust production management service for relevant infrastructure platforms. you'll be providing specialist support to colleagues who access their desktop systems remotely as well as providing 2nd level support to our Branch Desktop colleagues.

You'll be ensuring the Branch Desktops also meet the bank's strict security compliance.

In addition, you'll be contributing to the delivery of customer outcomes, innovation and early learning by contributing to test products and services to identify early on if they are viable and deliver the desired outcomes.

Your role will involve:

  • Driving incident ticket reduction activities such as engineering out issues, collaborative working and improving customer experience
  • Contributing to the platform risk culture, making sure that risks are discussed and understood at every step, and effectively collaborating to mitigate risk
  • Contributing to the planning and execution of work within the platform and the timely servicing of feature development requests from cross platform initiatives, and supporting the delivery of regulatory reporting
  • Participating and seeking out opportunities to simplify the platform infrastructure, architecture, services and customer solutions, guarding against introducing new complexity
  • Building relationships with platform, domain and relevant cross-domain stakeholders
  • Making sure that controls are applied and constantly reviewed, primarily against SOX, to ensure full compliance to all our policies and regulatory obligations

The skills you'll need:

To succeed in this role, you'll need to be a very capable communicator with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to colleagues, including management level. You'll need a solid background working in an Agile or DevOps environment with continuous delivery and continuous integration.

We'll also look to you to demonstrate:

  • Technical knowledge, including platform, technology, products and domains
  • Knowledge of relevant industry standard toolsets and processes to drive up customer service within an IT environment
  • An understanding of operational principles
  • Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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