Location
Lisbon

Contract
Full-Time

Language
English; Portuguese

Mutual Respect, Accuracy, Creativity and Critical Sense. Do you see yourself within these values? Let?s continue?
Closer is a tech company created in 2006. Carrying innovation in our DNA, we are a 100% Portuguese company having already expanded to other 4 different countries. Being proud of our steady growth and impact in the IT market, we are conscious of the importance of the role of our people in this path.
By showing clear and successful results in industries as wide as Telecommunications, Banking or Retail, our clients trust us to search and select the right person for their projects.
We are now looking for a new Senior Market Risk Support Engineer willing to accept new challenges.

Within the IT department of Risk, PnL & ALM (RPA), the Market Risk team maintains a set of applications that are used by the client to calculate all relevant metrics that are used to monitor the financial activities of a bank. These are applications used in a daily basis, and for which there is a project to ensure high availability by providing technical support, monitoring and maintenance that includes the evolutive and corrective improvement.

Risk Monitoring and Production Support team is a centralized application support team working in a sensitive and critical environment, with a combination of dedicated resources, technical and interpersonal attributes to provide a specialized support on the incidents raised by IT Market Risk department. The applications supported by the team is mostly written in Java, C++; Scala, SQL and Scripting. It also features Hadoop, Oracle and Sybase databases.

As your main tasks and responsibilities, you?ll have to provide a first line of production support with dedicated KPI?s, as to ensure all applications run smoothly, and so you?ll also have to revise query performance and optimize code, enhance user?s satisfaction by solving incidents/problems effectively and efficiently, ensure the proper troubleshooting and incidents follow up, ensure corrective & evolutive maintenance of the applications and ensure continue improvement.

Are you the one?

• English Proficiency;
• Academic background in either Computer Science (or similar IT degree), Economics or Finance;
• Strong interpersonal, relationship, management and communication skills;
• Strong troubleshooting capability;
• Previous experience in similar roles;
• Knowledge in basic computer competencies (Linux, XML, SQL, File transfer).
• Experience debugging code;
• Experience with Hadoop / Oracle / Sybase databases;
• Experience with Control - M;
• Familiar with Market Risk concepts;
• French Proficiency will be extremely appreciated;

Oh? and by the way, we have:

• Several challenging complex projects;
• Stimulating teams and leaders;
• Worldclass Clients and Partners.