Description : Technical Support Engineer
Background :
Our client is looking for an additional member to join the First Level Support Team in Basel, Switzerland. The new team member will be part of a distributed team located in Switzerland, Hong Kong, and Mexico. As a Level 1 Technical Support Engineer, you are responsible for finding solutions to incidents on an array of Banking-specific applications reported by business users from front, middle, and back office. Together with the extended Banking IT team, you would help resolve issues end-to-end. You would document resolutions and share your knowledge with the rest of the First Level Support Team. You will contribute to development and work items.
General Information :
- Start date : ASAP
- Latest start date : 3 months
- End date :
- Extension : TBC
- Work location : Basel
- Workload : 100%
- Travelling : no
- On Call : yes (but not regularly and only during certain bank holidays)
- Team : Banking IT
- Department : Banking
Tasks & Responsibilities :
Resolve incidents reported by business users on Banking applicationsCoordinate between various teams within Banking and internal IT teams within our client to fix major incidentsCommunicate updates to business usersDocument issues and resolutions using internal systemsContribute to long-term system enhancements either as a developer or a business analystMust haves :
At least 3 years’ experience working at a financial institution as engineer / technical support in a banking environment. (Experience working with order management systems (esp. FIS Cross-Asset Trading and Risk Platform / FrontArena) (Hands on experience working in an ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) environment / knowledge (Experience working with Oracle Database or Microsoft SQL Server, and writing SQL queries (Experience with ticketing systems (, ServiceNow, Jira, Zendesk). (Familiarity with monitoring and diagnostic tools (, ELK) (Interpersonal skills :
Self-motivatedAbility to take initiative and suggest improvementsExcellent analytical skillsExcellent communication skills in EnglishNice to have :
Experience working with OpenLink Findur / Endur or any major trading platformExperience working with GoldenSource or any major enterprise data management systemExperience working with financial messages (SWIFT, FIX, CTM)Experience working with asset management solutions (Aladdin)Experience with trading venues (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, FXall, Tradeweb, Eurex)Client facing experience in the role of the technical supportExperience with the different stages of software development lifecycleExperience developing in Python, Java, C++ or C#A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related fieldSkills
Technical supportsupportengineeringsupport engineerbanking operationsorder managementFIS Cross-Asset TradingRisk PlatformFrontArenaITILOracle DatabaseMicrosoft SQLticketing systemmonitoring toolsdiagnostic toolsELKself motivatedopenlinkendurfindurtrading platformgoldensourcedata management systemfinancial messagesSWIFTFIXCTMasset managementtrading venuespythonEmployee Value Proposition
Long term opportunity in a highly skilled team.
Job Title : Technical Support Engineer
Location : Basel, Switzerland
Job Type : Contract
TEKsystems, an Allegis Group company. Allegis Group AG, Aeschengraben 20, CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland. Registration No. TEKsystems is a company within the Allegis Group network of companies (collectively referred to as "Allegis Group"). Aerotek, Aston Carter, EASi, TEKsystems, Stamford Consultants and The Stamford Group are Allegis Group brands.