Associate Director, Application Support Specialist

Cohen & Steers

$130K — $140K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7-10 years' experience in application support and development within the financial industry
  • Proficiency with MS SQL Server, including stored procedures and SSRS
  • Strong knowledge of web services, internet technologies, and various scripting languages, particularly PowerShell
  • Familiarity with enterprise job scheduling tools, like JAMS, is a plus
  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Demonstrates inclusive behaviors to support diversity in the workplace
  • Willingness to comply with a hybrid work policy, requiring four days in-office and one remote day.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver application support by resolving user errors and data discrepancies
  • Collaborate with customer support to address user queries and generate ad-hoc data reports
  • Assist in testing processes, data migration, and system deployment to end users
  • Document processes, bugs, and their resolutions
  • Track production-related issues and communicate updates to stakeholders
  • Provide overnight and weekend testing support as needed
  • Automate processes and develop scripts or stored procedures.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a leading financial institution
  • Engagement in a collaborative work environment
  • Exposure to a variety of trading and non-trading systems
  • Chance to develop new technical skills and solve complex problems
  • Support for diversity through inclusive workplace practices.
Full Job Description
Job Title: Associate Director, Application Support Specialist

Department: Information Technology

Reports To: Director, Desktop Support

FLSA Code: Exempt

Estimated Salary: $130,000 - $140,000

Job Summary:

Provide application support to all trading and non-trading systems and processes. Ensure the guaranteed availability of applications for the firm and assist in problem management and resolution. Assist in the testing of changes to applications and the operating environment. Create a knowledge base for customer support and other documentation.

Major Responsibilities/Activities:
  • Deliver support to all business users, investigating and resolving application errors, data discrepancies
  • Partner directly with customer support through user requests and queries, which may include ad-hoc data reports and analysis
  • Assist with process testing, data migration, system integration and deployment to the end user
  • Document processes, issues/bugs and resolution
  • Maintain and track production related bugs and communicate status to business users, management and team
  • Provide overnight/weekend testing support for the applications/systems, as the need arises
  • Create solutions and automate jobs/processes, write scripts and stored procedures


Minimum Requirements:
  • 7-10 years' experience in application support and development within the financial industry
  • 7-10 years' experience with MS SQL Server (Stored procedures, views, scripts) and SSRS
  • Strong knowledge of web services and internet technologies and proficiency with SDLC processes, FTP/SFTP, HTML, XML, MS Access, and other scripting languages with an emphasis on PowerShell
  • Experience working with enterprise job scheduling tool/application, such as JAMS, is a plus
  • Possess familiarity with order management system functionality (CRD OMS) such as trading blotters, portfolio manager analytical tools, compliance module reporting, order history and FIX connectivity is a plus
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Demonstrates inclusive behaviors in support of a culture that values diverse perspectives
  • Agrees to comply with the firm's hybrid work policy ("work from home policy," as aligned with the Company's employee handbook), which currently requires reporting to the Company's New York City office four (4) days per week, with one (1) remote workday permitted.


Note: This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned. The job title or duties and responsibilities may be changed by the Company at any time.

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