Scotiabank · 3 days ago
Commodities Application Support Specialist
Dallas, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expScotiabank is a leading Canadian Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a notable presence in the US. The Commodities Application Support Specialist will provide application level and back-end support for critical trading applications, focusing on the metals business, while collaborating with various teams to enhance business outcomes.
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Responsibilities
Work closely with Sales, Traders in the commodities business, with your primary focus being the metals business
Collaborate with the cross functional teams including engineering & development, business lines and other technology and product teams to build the right products with high quality, on time and within budget
Perform analysis and understand business issues. Collaborate with technology teams to define meaningful solutions that simplify and improve business outcomes, and collaborate with business users to review and test new products for trading
Effectively communicate and continuously engage & cultivate relationships with key stakeholders in front to back office and in technology, and partner with them to help drive the strategy of the department
Qualification
Required
10+ years of product and technology experience (preferably support), with strong business analysis, architecture/technical background
5+ years experience in Commodities derivatives, preferably Metals
Strong knowledge of capital markets trading and commodities products with a focus on metals
Experience with market risk as it relates to derivatives products in the commodities space. This includes understanding of higher order greeks for risk and pricing
Good understanding of the end-to-end trade life cycle
Experienced in understanding customer needs in your past roles and have successfully achieved it through a sound execution strategy
Translate business objectives/Requirements into technical requirements and collaborate with various Teams/Vendors
Strong problem solver with ability to influence and inspire a cross-functional team to reach ambitious goals
Desire to engage and own tasks, combined with a curious mindset to stretch ideas into novel solutions
Past work experience and good understanding of a trading floor
Practical experience in supporting trading systems using latest technologies
A solid technical background, with experience in Unix, shell scripting, Oracle and other tools. 5+ years of hands-on experience is required
Practical experience on database management systems (e.g. Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL databases)
Experience in writing complex SQL queries to gather data from various sources and performing analysis on the data
Experience as a Support analyst or DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools
Proficient with source code versioning tools (Git, Bitbucket) and build tools (Jenkins)
Preferred
Previous experience in a business analysis role would be an asset
Benefits
Flexible benefit programs
Company
Scotiabank
Scotiabank is a banking firm that provides banking and financial services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.07B2024-04-17Post Ipo Debt· $1.07B
1972-03-01IPO
Leadership Team
Jabar Singh
President & CEO Scotiabank Colpatria (Colombia) & Head Central America & Caribbean
L.Scott Thomson
President and CEO
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