Information Technology Executive

Job Title: Junior IT Executive

Location: Dubai/Abu Dhabi

Salary: AED 6,000 – 8,000

Job Code: C-248/002/551

Industry: Financial Brokerage

Job Description:

Overall responsibility is to ensure that the firm operates within the applicable regulations and meets the regulatory standards. The position requires continued interaction with other teams within the Firm to manage IT-related matters.

Job Responsibilities:

• Maintain, support, troubleshoot, and monitor trading servers and related trading platforms.
• Maintain, support, troubleshoot, and monitor Bridge and any FIX API (Trading- Pricing) connections.
• Analyze the business requirements of all departments to determine their technology needs.
• Identify the need for upgrades, configurations, or new systems and report to upper management.
• Perform ongoing maintenance and upgrade of the company’s trading infrastructure.
• Complete configuration, installation, and support of equipment relating to trading infrastructure.
• Investigate, resolve, and maintain a record of various incidents relating to trading platforms.
• Day-to-day support and monitoring of all trading platforms.
• Manage the trading platform data center operation parameters.
• Control of the security and integrity of the trading infrastructure.
• Document existing IT procedures and policies.
• Managing assigned projects to deliver services in accordance with established objectives.
• Conduct test plug-ins and Manager-API applications, Bridge setup, and troubleshoot any issues that arise in the day-to-day operations.
• Aligning IT infrastructure with current and future business requirements and goals.
• Assuring that IT activities are within the limits of applicable laws, codes, and regulations.
• Evaluating risk, developing network recovery and backup processes.
• Cooperating with 3^rd party service providers for maintaining/troubleshooting issues.
• Daily support of all the trading platforms desktop and application environment used for trading and operation of the firm.
• Hands-on technical work including installation, operation, and troubleshooting of a wide array of technologies and applications.
• Support and administration of a heavily virtualized Windows infrastructure.
• Deployment, configuration, and management of physical and virtual systems, corporate services, and application software.
• Overseeing all technology operations and evaluating them according to established goals.

Job Requirements:

• A minimum bachelor's degree in computer science, Data Science, or IT is required.
• Minimum of 1-3 years of experience.
• Experience with system administration of Windows servers desktops, and desktop applications.
• Knowledge of networking, including basic exposure to TCP/IP, DNS, and DHCP.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to influence decision-making at the top management level.
• Strong ability to communicate and collaborate with team and users.
• Strong documentation skills to create consistent, repeatable processes.
• A proactive approach to technology and operational improvements.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills to solve complex technology issues.