Technical Specialist

Job Title-  Technical Specialist / Engineer, VP

Location-  Pune, India

Role Description

• Due to technology and infrastructure changes within DWS, a new technical team has to be established on IT side to assure infrastructure and middleware support for 7 applications used by DWS Operations teams (focusing on fund accounting).
• The team has to serve global business teams, accordingly to their time zone (Europe, US and APAC). The applications in scope have different technology stacks and origin (internally developed and vendors apps).
• The activities of the team include monitoring of the interfaces (> 100, with different integration patterns), coding & scripting to fix production issues or cover new requirements (Linux and Windows environments), assurance compliance of middleware components with DB/DWS technical roadmap as well as rollouts changes into productive environments.
• The technical specialist / engineer is a member of that team.

What we'll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you'll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• Development & rollout of interfaces (establishing connections via dbExchange / SFTP, MQ, mail, database links etc.)
• Scripting to solve production issues & provide new functionalities as well as for scheduling with Control M & Active Batch (esp. for vendor app SimCorp Dimension)
• Scripting on Windows & RHEL servers
• Certificate handling
• Maintenance & rollouts of changes to middleware (JAVA, oracle client, apache, tomcat, send mail, perl, shell script, open SSH, etc.) for internally developed applications
• Prod support for SFTP Server (24 h / global)
• Interface monitoring & build "Monitoring Dashboard"
• Co-operation with other IT teams and roles like CSO, ITAO, Architecture, business analysts etc.

Your skills and experience

• Technical tools
  • Windows  (system administrator & developer)
  • VBA, sql, C#, perl, JAVA, PowerShell, Python,
  • MS SQL Server, Oracle SQL Developer
  • IBM MQ, Kafka, VPN, ExpressRoute, SFTP, REST APIs (Json)
• Authentication & authorisation - SSO, 2FA, SAML, OAuth2
• Scheduling – Control M; Active Batch
• Experience with Active Directory / domain Controller migration
• Experience with different data transfer methodologies (MQ, sftp, database links)
• Experience with AIX to Linux migration of advantage
• SDLC tools (used by DB): Confluence, JIRA, Bitbucket, Git Hub (Code upload), Artifactory, ServiceNOW/dbunity
• Experience as engineer in asset management industry
• Ability to present complex topics in a structured and clear way
• Excellent English communication skills (oral, writing), German – of advantage
• Proactive and independent worker

How we'll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

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We at DWS are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, one that embraces dialogue and diverse views, and treats everyone fairly to drive a high-performance culture. The value we create for our clients and investors is based on our ability to bring together various perspectives from all over the world and from different backgrounds. It is our experience that teams perform better and deliver improved outcomes when they are able to incorporate a wide range of perspectives. We call this #ConnectingTheDots.