This job description is for an Application Engineer position in Capital Markets IT Production. The role involves managing the production environment for electronic market systems used by traders and back office staff around the world. Responsibilities include defining technical architecture, implementing new technologies, and delivering stable and performing applications. The ideal candidate has 12+ years of relevant experience, expertise in areas like Windows, Unix, databases, middleware, and programming languages. They will work on projects to setup and fine-tune in-house and third party applications, assist with validation, and monitor applications in production.

1. External Staff Request<br />Job Description<br />Application Engineer Capital Markets <br />1. Context of the mission<br />Capital Markets IT Production is the METAMORF) branch in charge of managing the entire Capital Markets production environment in close collaboration with the Development teams and the Business.<br />Systems are used within several dealing rooms by Traders, Sales dealers and Back-Office around the<br />world to perform front-office functions such as pricing or position keeping, as well as back-office<br />processes and risk management. Our business users’ domains include Foreign Exchange, Treasury &<br />Fixed-Income markets, as well as, Equity, Commodities & Derivatives markets.<br />Our team, CM APS part of the strong METAMORF in Brussels, is the IT Application Production & Support team . Application Engineers are responsible for managing the production environment and providing underlying components to enable future proof systems for Capital Markets.<br />Our applications are running on Sun and/or Wintel systems, with numerous interactions. We are<br />responsible for defining technical architecture, investigation and implementation of new technologies<br />(GRID, remote blade workstations, SOA) and delivering stable and performing applications for our<br />worldwide clients. We assure quality for Electronic Market Systems by our active responsibility for Test<br />& Release Management, defining DRP and SLA’s and capacity measurements.<br />2. Period mission<br />Start date: ASAP<br />Duration: 3 months with possible extension<br />3. Language requirement<br />English: Required<br />French: Optional<br />Dutch: Optional<br />4. Localisation of the job<br />Brussels (near Central Station)<br />Principal assignments Experience<br />Contributing to technical and/or functional knowledge of specific aspects of applications/environments/processes<br />Building application, software, infrastructure or technical architecture<br />Contributing his/her expertise on specific issues (application architecture planning, etc.)<br />At least 12 years of experience<br />Acknowledged technical and/or functional expertise in the area under consideration<br />Intervening on an ad hoc basis<br />5. Required knowledge and experience<br />Required level and content of education<br />Master degree in IT<br />Personal skills<br />Mandatory: - You are pro-active and solution-oriented with excellent interpersonal communication skills<br />- You are able to work in a team in collaboration with other. You can organise your tasks with a high quality mindset.<br />Business experience required<br />Mandatory: -<br />Preferable: -<br />Technical experience required -<br />Mandatory: - You have professional experience with application setup and maintenance; you have experience with interface developments and with scripting<br />- You have an excellent understanding of the Windows and/or Unix operating systems<br />Preferable: - You are capable troubleshooting applications with your network knowledge.<br />- You are familiar with Enterprise Application Integration solutions and have already experienced<br />projects where systems interoperability is a key component to serve Business needs.<br />- You hold competences in one - or more - of these fields: J2EE, .NET, SOA XML/SOAP protocols,<br />Websphere/MQ series EAI tools, Oracle.<br />6. Objective of the job<br />As an Application Engineer you will be working on the (technical) Architecture & Technology for<br />Capital Market activities. You will work on projects to implement in-house developed or package-based<br />applications in METAMORF environment. This includes technical setup (combinations of Windows, Unix, DB, MQ, Java, .NET etc.) of these packages, fine-tuning (think of performance, security roles), and assisting in the validation phase. You work solution-oriented. Another important aspect of your job is to set up active application monitoring and fine-tuning for applications in production (think of pro-active alerting, performance and capacity measurements and reporting).<br />You will be part of the Application Engineering team consisting of other specialists.<br />As our systems serve our world wide clients, our solutions have to work for all of them, so our mindset is<br />world-wide. Therefore, an Application Engineer also acts as “guardian” of quality, of course supported by<br />our quality manager and project leaders.<br />