MANDATORY

• Applicants must have permission to work in Japan
• Applicants must be able to speak fluent ~ native level Japanese (Equivalent to JLPT N1)

☑Foreign business ☑English language required ☑Japanese language required

[Position]
Application Specialist AVP

[Company Description]
Global Investment Bank

[Role Description]

• The Technology, Data, and Innovation (TDI) division is responsible for driving an integrated IT, data, and security agenda across the bank.
• The function is responsible for implementing the bank's technology strategy focused on strengthening engineering expertise, introducing an agile delivery model, reducing administrative overheads, de-coupling assets within our IT estate for faster, cost-efficient deployments, as well as modernizing the bank's IT infrastructure with long-term investments and benefiting from cloud computing.
• Within TDI, Investment Banking, Fixed Income Currencies Technology - the Tokyo Rates & Credit Production Team are responsible for maintaining application stability across the Rates, Credit, Repo, and Structured, Front Office Businesses.

[Responsibilities]

• Maintaining overall availability of the trading platform.
• Responding to user queries and requests in a timely manner.
• Identifying, investigating, and resolving application/infrastructure issues impacting the business; whilst ensuring communication updates provided at regular intervals.
• Ensuring strategic follow-ups (incl. reviewing opportunities for automation) take place in a bid to reduce repeat occurrences of issues & incidents.
• Conducting Start of Week/Day checks, observing and acting on monitoring alerts, and keeping oversight of high-profile technology processes particularly those relating to exchange obligations.
• Implementing application releases & keeping oversight of infra patching schedules (may include some Out of Hours activities).
• Working closely with Project Managers, Functional Business Analysts, and Developers to introduce new functionality and enhancements to the trading platform.
• Setting up new & maintaining existing Monitoring environments.
• Participating in Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Plan exercises (may include some Out of Hours activities).
• Active participation in local, regional, and global process improvement initiatives.
• Engagement in wider Technology forums when possible, ie Engineering Days, Hackathons, Data Science challenges, etc.

[Requirements]
Mandatory:

• A Bachelor's Degree or higher, preferably in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics.
• 5yrs+ industry experience, incl. several years within the Front Office Application Support domain.
• Strong technical skills ie Unix, SQL, Scripting, Monitoring and Scheduling Tools, etc.
• Good understanding of Fixed Income Currencies Businesses such as Rates, Credit, FX, or Listed Derivatives.
• Familiarity across the ITIL framework in Change, Incident, and Problem Management; as well as awareness of Agile concepts across the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Exceptional verbal and written skills in both English and Business Japanese, to communicate effectively with business users, technology peers, and senior management alike.

[Location]
Tokyo

[Salary]
10 million JPY - 14 million JPY (Experiences and skills will be considered)

[Welfare]

• Corporate Group Insurance
• Annual health checkup
• Childcare and elderly care benefits
• Free and confidential counseling, online work-life resources
• Employee networks - Diversity, volunteering, sports, family care - various activities to participate

[Holidays]
Full 2 holiday week system (Sat/Sun), National holidays, New year's holiday, Annual Leave

[Selection Process]
Application screening and several interviews are scheduled.

Please click "apply" if you are interested in the job.
We will review your profile and contact you within five business days should we find that you satisfy the requirements of the hiring company.
Further details about the company and position will be notified at a later date.

Reference: JO-2304-481028
Seniority Level: Director
Job Function: Information Technology, Engineering, Finance