Job Opportunities in Switzerland

Finastra, a leading financial services provider, is seeking an experienced Application Manager to join our team in Switzerland.

This role offers the opportunity to lead a dedicated 10-person team, supporting a critical real-time processing platform for over 250 banking and corporate customers.

The ideal candidate will bring strong technical skills in Linux, Kubernetes, and Ansible, coupled with experience in the financial services industry. Your primary responsibilities will include troubleshooting issues, deploying new installations, and collaborating cross-functionally to ensure the platform’s reliability and efficiency.

This role is perfect for a hands-on technical leader who thrives in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment.

Key Responsibilities & Deliverables:

• Oversee test activities of releases and projects, ensuring alignment with time and budget constraints.
  
• Leverage your deep understanding of solutions, applications, and technical environments.
  
• Utilize your hands-on experience with operating systems and servers.
  
• Manage and use multiple tools (both third-party and in-house) to ensure all applications are running correctly.
  
• Handle operations’ software-related tickets and resolve all associated issues.
  
• Collaborate with various teams across the company to solve issues in logistics operation, customer service application, financial, and messaging applications.
  
• Work with third-party vendors on technical issues and projects.
  
• Identify and report issues with orders, systems, or the logistics operation to product managers and tech teams.
  
• Provide technical support to clients and offer 24x7 on-call support.
  
• Triage and manage incidents, and write up incident reports.
  
• Thoroughly test applications to ensure the best quality of all projects and test deliveries.
  
• Configure special converters in the appropriate application.
  
• Create documents for internal departments such as Client Support and Projects.
  
• Coordinate and collaborate with other Service Bureaus in the UK and USA.
  
• Act as an expert in customer and/or internal projects.
  
• Provide support in yearly Service Bureau and customer-based audits.
  
• Build reporting/dashboards to help monitor catalog metrics.
  

Essential Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  
• Ability to work under pressure and in a fast-paced environment with aggressive deadlines.
  
• Organized, independent, self-motivated, and a quick learner.
  
• Strong problem-solving skills and a robust technical background.
  
• The desire to learn and expand your mindset.
  
• A driven mindset to solve problems, excellent multitasking skills, and the ability to work with an agile team.
  
• Effective communication skills to help solve technical and data issues.
  
• Deadline-driven with the ability to perform effectively and work independently.
  
• Highly motivated, independent with analytical thinking.
  

Required Experience:

• College degree in the field of computer science and/or equivalent work experience.
  
• Relevant experience in a similar role in a time-critical and service-oriented company.
  
• Good business understanding of interbank services such as SWIFT, SIC, or SECOM.
  
• Knowledge of SWIFT services like Inter Act, File Act, Browse.
  
• Expertise in Unix Operating System and coding/Scripting of Unix shell script.
  
• Basic know-how in network and database administrations.
  
• Nice to have: SAG know-how, Ingres Database knowledge, SQL.
  
• Basic Excel, SQL, Splunk, Python, Scripts, Github, JIRA knowledge is a plus.
  
• Working knowledge of Windows Server OS and knowledge of scripting.
  
• Very good knowledge of Red Hat Linux and scripting.
  
• Very good knowledge of JBoss and Tomcat.
  
• Working knowledge of databases such as Oracle, Ingres, and good in writing SQL queries for Oracle and/or Ingres.
  
• Working knowledge of FTP / SFTP/ Web Sphere MQ integration.
  
• Good knowledge of VMware ESXi.
  
• Good understanding of Hybrid Cloud technologies and Azure.
  

If you’re a driven individual with a desire to solve problems and expand your mindset, we’d love to hear from you.