eFinancialCareers

• Company

  Markit Group

• Location

  UK-London

• Compensation

  Competitive

• Position Type

  Permanent

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  18 Nov 2009

• eFC Ref no

  565295

Company overview

Markit was founded in 2001 as the first independent source of credit derivative pricing and has recently been announced as the fastest growing private company in the UK. Today, our data, valuations and trade processing services are regarded as the market standard in the global financial markets, helping our clients to reduce risk, improve operational efficiency and meet regulatory requirements.

With over 1,300 institutions using our independent services as clients - including investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, central banks, regulators, rating agencies and insurance companies - we provide round-the-clock support from our offices in London, New York, Chicago, Dallas, Toronto, Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Tokyo, Singapore and Sydney.

Department overview

Fixed Income’s technology groups develop and support systems which provide pricing, analytics, clearing and calculation services for Markit’s flagship range of Credit Default Swap & Credit Index, Bond and Loan information products.

Position summary

Create and then manage a new function to monitor, support, enhance and streamline end of day and intra-day batch jobs which power Markit’s industry leading range of Fixed Income & Credit Derivatives data products.

This role would suit an experienced technical manager with experience managing an operational support function in a high pressure environment which demands high system performance and accuracy.

Hands-on Oracle database experience, and understanding of Java, preferred as this role will contain a hands-on element and will also involve supervising and mentoring technical staff within these disciplines.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced technical manager with a numerate degree, or equivalent, to work on maintaining and monitoring systems powering pricing for one of the several of the highest profile asset classes which are under going rapid & exciting change.

Duties & accountabilities

Implementation of processes to monitor financial batches. Management of support of operational and technical incidents with batches from detection through to resolution. Creation, and line management of, a team of technical staff of 2-3 people in support of these functions.

Responsibilities will include hands-on fault diagnosis and resolution, process creation and optimization, knowledge sharing and managing your team’s performance and delivery against agreed goals and objectives.

Business competencies

Education and experience

The right candidate will have a very strong academic degree or equivalent background in a numerate discipline.

Solid proven track record in a operational and/or technical support.

Strong experience with enterprise-grade relational database management system, preferably Oracle.

Ability to read, understand and diagnose faults within Java source code and batch scripts.

Experience with highly numeric applications advantageous.

The ideal candidate will have a demonstrable track record actively contributing to the implementation of innovative, best-practice-based, technical solutions in a complex and challenging environment

Commercial awareness

Team Leadership/Time Management

Process Management

Project Management highly desirable

ITIL highly desirable

Management requirements

Fixed Income or other Financial Markets knowledge preferred (or similar experience working in an alternative numeric field)

Personal competencies

Personal impact

The ideal candidate would be conscientious, have excellent attention to detail, very hard working and prepared to go the extra mile to absorb the necessary business & technical knowledge to succeed.

Communication

Very strong verbal and written communication skills and fluent English essential.

Teamwork

Proven ability to work within a team of technologists is essential.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive for each of our roles we are unable to respond on an individual basis. If you have not received a response within 2 weeks of having submitted your details, it is likely that your application has not been successful on this occasion.

Please state in your covering letter that you are eligible to work in the location that we are seeking to make this appointment. We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer.

We kindly and respectfully request agencies not to submit applications.