The Senior Application Support Engineer position supports customer-facing operations by responding to operational and business issues. In addition to technical responsibilities, this role includes leading a small team, ensuring operational excellence, and driving continuous improvements. This position is responsible for planning, deploying, and supporting client implementations of products.
Specific Duties:
- Lead and mentor a small team of Application Support Engineers, providing guidance, training, and performance management.
- Manage the team's daily operations, ensuring timely and accurate resolution of customer issues in alignment with company SLAs.
- Collaborate with other departments (e.g., CSM, Sales, Billing, Development, IT, etc) to drive the resolution of complex client issues and improve product offerings.
- Conduct regular team meetings to review progress, address challenges, and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
- Act as a point of escalation for critical issues, providing strategic input and directing the team on best practices for issue resolution.
- Monitor and analyze team performance metrics to identify areas for improvement and ensure service quality.
- Coordinate the on-call schedule and provide support during high-priority incidents.
- Foster a collaborative and supportive work environment, encouraging team growth and professional development.
- Support change management and incident review processes, ensuring lessons learned are incorporated into future workflows.
Technical Duties:
- Provide customer support in accordance with company SLAs via email, phone, or live chat.
- Act as a technical first responder. Triage technical issues across multiple infrastructure levels (network, OS, application). Prioritize and escalate issues according to the severity and details of each case.
- Analyze logs, FIX messages, and other primary sources to determine the root cause of trading and quoting issues.
- Manage upgrades and migrations for the business related application software. Perform system check-out after the process is completed.
- Develop subject matter expertise and be an ambassador of digital asset knowledge within the team.
- Work with clients to appropriately configure each aspect of their application, including liquidity provider details, order routing configuration, trading platform connectivity, and prime broker give-up arrangements.
Required Skills:
- Proven leadership experience in a support or technical role, with the ability to manage and develop a small team.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and high attention to detail.
- Ability to process multiple client communication streams and make high-quality decisions under pressure.
- Desire and ability to learn new skills and tools, and enthusiastically take on new opportunities and tough challenges.
- High proficiency level (power user) with Microsoft Windows OS.
- 5+ yr experience supporting clients in the financial services industry.
- Understanding of FIX protocol.
- Basic knowledge of TCP/IP and Networking.
- Basic knowledge of SQL (PGSQL, MYSQL).
The salary range for this role is $120,000.00 to $140,000.00, based on relevant experience.