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Lead Application Support Engineer - Finance

Client Server Ltd.
Posted 4 days ago, valid for a month
Location

London, Greater London EC2V7NQ, England

Salary

£50,000 - £60,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • The Lead Application Support Engineer position in London offers a salary of up to £85k plus a bonus of approximately 10-15%.
  • Candidates should have significant experience as a senior Application Support Engineer, ideally within a financial services environment.
  • The role involves mentoring a small team while providing 2nd and 3rd line support, resolving production issues, and making system changes.
  • Strong technical skills in Linux, SQL, and scripting or coding are required, along with excellent client service abilities.
  • The position allows for hybrid working, requiring only one day a week in the office, with additional benefits including private medical insurance and a pension contribution.

Lead Application Support Engineer (Linux SQL) London / WFH to £85k

Are you a senior Application Support Engineer with strong technical skills combined with mentoring experience?

You could be progressing your career in a hands-on technical leadership role at a Market leading FinTech that provides a highly functional suite of software products to support post-trade processing for clients including most of the financial institutions across the globe.

What's in it for you:

As a Lead Application Support Engineer you will earn a competitive package:

  • Salary to £85k + bonus (c10-15%)
  • Private Medical Insurance and Eye Care
  • Employee Assistance Programme (including 24/7 GP, mental health support, financial and legal advice)
  • 25 days holiday
  • 5% pension contribution and Life Assurance
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Hybrid working, only one day a week in London, flexible hours

Your role:

As a Lead Application Support Engineer you will join a small, collaborative team responsible for client support; you'll gain an indepth understanding of the company's suite of products and own the resolution of 2nd and 3rd line support issues. You'll also dive into production issues and client integration tickets, working with the codebase and releasing your own code and system changes into production.

This is a senior, hands-on role with mentoring and technical leadership responsibilities in collaboration with the Team Lead.

WFH Policy:

You can work from home most of the time, meeting up with colleagues once a week in the London, City office. Please not there are some varying shift patterns, earliest start 0730, latest finish 1830 and an on-call requirement one in six weeks.

About you:

  • You are a senior Application Support Engineer, happy to coach, mentor and provide technical leadership to a small team (3-4)
  • You have a strong knowledge of Linux OS
  • You have strong SQL skills including writing queries / commands, MySQL experience would be great
  • You're able to script or code with any programming language, Perl or bash would be great
  • You have a good understanding of networking technologies
  • Ideally you will have experience within a financial services environment
  • You're collaborative, with excellent client and customer service skills
  • You have achieved a BSc Computer Science degree or similar technical discipline

Apply now to find out more about this Lead Application Support Engineer (Linux SQL) opportunity.

At Client Server we believe in a diverse workplace that allows people to play to their strengths and continually learn. We're an equal opportunities employer whose people come from all walks of life and will never discriminate based on race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. The clients we work with share our values.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.