Trading Platform Engineer

An opportunity has arisen for a Trading Platform Engineer to join the Trading Platform Engineering Team. Reporting into the Trading Platform Engineering Team Lead, the role will be responsible for helping to establish processes and improvements that will enhance AJBell’s trading platform through the strategic book of work and develop the team into a mature engineering function. Where appropriate, the role will also be responsible for providing support on incidents that are escalated by the Application Support Manager/Team.

What does the job involve?

• Identify and deliver improvement initiatives for both systematic and operational functions.
• Provide solutions to operational processes liaising with the Application Support team
• Attendance and input into Change Meetings.
• Varied involvement in projects relating to the trading platform. Both as an SME and occasionally as a team member to help deliver work packages.
• Where required, involvement in releases to help support and implement more complex releases with important functionality, such as core software upgrades.
• Working directly with users/project managers in order to guide requests through the correct process/channels.
• Co-ordination with users in regards to owned change
• Providing cover for other team members as required.
• Training members of the Application Support team when new processes/applications are rolled out.

Competence, Knowledge and Skills

Competence

• Excellent personal management and organisation skills
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• An analytical mind-set and technical ability
• Ambitious and driven to exceed expectations
• Ability to communicate at all levels, building positive relationships with colleagues and clients and maintaining excellent customer service skills.
• Credible and professional
• Able to challenge appropriately and present solutions
• A high attention to detail
• Self-starting and able to work on own initiative

Knowledge & Skills

• Foundation to intermediate understanding of a database language, DB2 SQL, MySQL, MongoDb etc.
• Foundation knowledge of iSeries (IBMi) system administration.
• A good understanding of the Financial Services industry.
• Experience working within a Change and Release framework
• Intermediate level of Unix skills
• Intermediate level scripting languages i.e. CL, Bash, Powershell
• Foundation level understanding of cloud concepts.
• Foundation level understanding of IAC

AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers, to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 503,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £80.3 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.

Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.

Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1300 employees and have been named one of the Sunday Times ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ for six consecutive years.

There are opportunities for growth and professional development for employees wanting to progress within their career including induction training and our study support scheme which is part of our benefits package.

There is an active programme of social events throughout the year, which are open to all employees.

What we offer:

• Competitive starting salary
• Generous holiday allowance of 27 days, increasing up to 30 days with service, plus bank holidays
• Holiday buy/sell scheme
• Hybrid working policy
• Casual dress code
• Discretionary bi-annual bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• Buy as you earn share scheme
• Free shares scheme
• Paid study support for qualifications
• Enhanced maternity/paternity scheme from day one
• Bike loan
• Season ticket loan portal
• Discounted PMI and Dental
• Free gym
• Paid volunteering opportunities
• Free social events and more

AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.