Smartstream IDLM Support Analyst

Project Description:

• Luxoft have been engaged by a leading financial institution to provide a technical BAU support analyst : to provide support of the Smartstream (CMS) cash management and liquidity and BAU activities.
• This support analyst will be responsible for providing technical support of the underlying application, releases and infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• In this role, you will be responsible for technical support and configuration across the bank's banking arm and securities business under a dual-hat arrangement. Under this arrangement, you will act and make decisions on behalf of both the bank and the securities business, subject to the same remit and level of authority, and irrespective of the entity which employs you.
• Support UK hours from (7am to 4pm) or (9am to 6pm) or (10am to 7pm) , as required.
• Participate in overnight support rota (on call) , and weekend work (releases /support etc).
• You will be a self motivator, who is able to take a task and progress it independently, or as part of a team.
• Document technical requirements or processes to capture the configuration being performed.
• Support and test technical systems/servers (shown below).
• Work with third party software provider and work within pre-defined application standards and raise queries or tickets if software defects are identified with the software vendor
• Apply industry experience and ensure the solution incorporates "best practice"
• Work with neighbouring technology and project teams to ensure changes and rolled out in a co-ordinated manner which is non-disruptive to the business
• Work in a coordinated manner around go-live activities, ensuring services are transitioned into the live production environment in a manner which is compliant with technology policy and non-disruptive to the business
• Provide a level of post live support and assist with remediation where necessary
• Work on key technical areas identified below.
• Ensure defects are tracked and managed, with the appropriate team assigned any defects identified during the test phases
• Highlight risks or concerns ensuring items are followed up or escalated appropriately

Mandatory Skills Description:

• Have experience of vendor application 'Smartstream Cash management (CMS) ver 4 , Control process Designer, Smart Schema (and some 'Smartstream Recs' ).
• Have excellent communication skills, being able to converse with a wide variety of teams (unix/database/application)
• Familiar with Change Requests, attending and representing on CAB and weekend rollout of code changes.
• Control M' application knowledge, jobs creation, administration, alerting, file move, file watchers ,json, etc.
• Oracle 19 Sql scripting and oracle database concepts
• Linux shell scripting and support.
• Ability to package up and manage configuration/code changes into releases, and apply to production.
• Jboss 8 server knowledge, configuration and support, error log analysis and WAR file deployment.
• JMS Queue processing and principles
• GitHub software management and Automated deployment via CI/CD pipeline.
• Be flexible, particularly when working on rolling out system changes in non-business hours and weekends.
• Be a self-motivator, who is able to take a task and progress it independently, or as part of a team.
• Have an understanding of banking concepts in relation to cash management and reconciliation.

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• Excellent communication skills.
• Proactive and self-starting individual with high levels of ownership and accountability
• Strong analytical skills with an ability to understand complex workflows.
• Proven ability to organize and prioritise own workload and drive results.
• The ability and confidence to demonstrate strong decision making skills/sound judgements
• Flexibility to adapt to urgent tasks as well as undertaking longer-term solutions
• Strong problem solving skills employing a logical approach
• The ability to collaborate and partner across the firm
• High attention to detail