Investec is a distinctive Specialist Bank serving clients principally in the UK and South Africa. Our culture gives us our edge: we work hard to find colleagues who'll think out of the ordinary and we put them in environments where they'll flourish. We combine a flat structure with a focus on internal mobility. If you can bring an entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to learn and collaborate to your work, this could be the boost your career deserves.

About the Team: 

The ALM Tech Team is responsible for managing the infrastructure and systems used in the Balance Sheet Risk Management at Investec UK. Key areas we look after are Liquidity Risk, Intraday Liquidity Management, Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book and Regulatory Reporting. The team comprises of developers - (Informatica, Azure, SQL and Oracle DB), Business Analysts and DevOps / Operational support people. Few vendor systems (Riskpro, Suade and Realiti) are used in the risk calculations / reg reporting / intraday liquidity management.

Key Roles and Responsibilities: 

• Get involved in upgrading the vendor apps / setting up applications on new environments
• Coordinate with infrastructure teams on resolving vulnerabilities identified in App servers
• Get involved in moving over to SSaS versions of both Riskpro and Suade in the future
• Help with improving performance for on-prem applications
• Liaising with the vendors in case of any issue with the applications
• Setting up new jobs / modifying existing jobs in Control-M batch
• UAT Support
• Provide 2^nd line support to existing solutions and services, applications, troubleshoot any data load failures, application issues, bugs.
• Follow and contribute to departmental development process in terms of standards, methodologies, testing, version control and documentation, drive and implement industry best practises, evaluate and introduce new tools
• Manage Change Management, BCP/DR tests and user training

Core Skills and Knowledge:

• Experience working on Control-M or any other job scheduling tool.
• Experience working with Microsoft SQL / Oracle or any other relational database
• Scripting experience (batch scripting / shell scripting), to help with process automation
• Experience working in a team following Agile/Kanban development practices, using JIRA, Confluence, Service Now etc.
• General troubleshooting of issues and Application Support experience
• General understanding of Windows and Linux servers admin
• API development experience
• Investment Banking or Financial Services experience
• Experience on cloud / Azure DevOps
• Prior experience around performance improvement for applications

As part of our collaborative & agile culture, our working week is 4 days in the office and one day remote.

Investec offers a range of wellbeing benefits to make our people feel healthier, balanced and more fulfilled in their lives inside and outside of work.

Embedded in our culture is a sense of belonging and inclusion. This creates an environment in which everyone is free to be themselves which helps to drive innovation, creativity and ultimately business performance. At Investec we want everyone to find it easy to be themselves, and to feel they belong. It's a responsibility we all share and is integral to our purpose and values as an organisation.

Research shows that some candidates can be reluctant to apply to a role unless they meet all the criteria. We pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial spirit here and welcome you to do the same – if the role excites you, please don't let our person specification hold you back. Get in touch!

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