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Description

The Senior Application Support Analyst will support Sophis and Valuation Management applications for the Equity Derivatives business, which are critical for overnight and intraday risk limits and valuations. Responsibilities include maintaining application stability and availability, overseeing continuous software releases, and supporting compute infrastructure and orchestration software (DataSynapse GRID) for pricing requests. The role also involves managing data quality from EOD Market Data and positions priced by the Model Library.

What We're Looking For

Quickly address issues impacting daily business functions (front office, middle office, back office)

Drive improved stability and data quality

Contribute to and improve ITRS monitoring platform configuration and action triggered events

Document and enhance existing documentation for known issues, coordinate remediation with various groups (Support, Development, Analytics, Quants)

Investigate and resolve pricing failures using SQL, Unix, Windows; automate processes with Python, PowerShell, and other scripting languages

Engage in platform projects including vulnerability remediation, business continuity, and automation

Perform change and release practices for proprietary and vendor software deployment

Participate in weekend on-call rotation

Manage shift schedules (early: 8 AM – 5:30 PM EST, late: 10 AM – 7 PM EST)

Ideal Candidate

3+ years' experience supporting applications on equity derivatives or other capital market products

3+ years' experience with SQL scripting

3+ years' experience working on Linux and Windows Server

1-2 years' experience with Python scripting

Monitoring experience of high availability trading applications, batch processing or similar

Job Scheduler experience (i.e. BMC Control-M, Autosys, Cron, etc.)

Kubernetes / Docker experience (Nice-to-have)

ITRS Geneos Monitoring Software (Nice-to-have)

PowerShell (Nice-to-have)

GRID / DataSynapse (Nice-to-have)

SOLACE (Nice-to-have)

Control-M Job Scheduler (Nice-to-have)

C++ / C# (Nice-to-have)

Oracle (Nice-to-have)

Experience supporting risk management and analytics applications / infrastructure (Nice-to-have)

Hard Skills

Analytics
Apache HTTP Server
Batch Processing
BMC Control-M
C++ Programming Language
Change Management
C Sharp (Programming Language)
Docker (Software)
Equities
Grid Computing
Job Scheduler
Kubernetes
Linux
Market Risk
Market Valuations
Microsoft Windows Server
Oracle
Python (Programming Language)
Solace
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Windows PowerShell

Soft Skills

Group Problem Solving
Incident Management
Interpersonal Relationships
Analytical Thinking
Problem Solving
Collaboration
Communication
Documentation
Process Automation

Work Hours

37.5 hours/week

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
competitive compensation
commissions
and stock where applicable.

Special Commitments

Must participate in weekend on-call rotation, requires rotation of shift schedules (early: 8 AM – 5:30 PM EST and late: 10 AM – 7 PM EST)

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About the Company

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Royal Bank of Canada

Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. As Canada's largest bank, it provides personal and commercial banking, wealth management, and capital markets services to over 17 million clients worldwide.

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