Integration Support Analyst (Java) recruitment

Opportunity
MG is a large Investment Management company dealing mainly in UK and Global Equities and Fixed Income investments.

The company is looking to recruit a Integration Support Analyst to work within the Integration Application Support Team. The integration support team provides support for the Front, Middle, Back office integration functions within MG Investments business. This is a key role within MG application support as integration applications facilitate systems to systems integration as well as business to business integration.

The successful candidate will be working in a role that involves the support of Integration applications developed using Java enterprise application development tools

We are looking for a well driven and motivated individual with a high level of responsibility and a willingness to learn. The candidate should posses strong technical skills in JAVA(enterprise application development), SQL and XML. In addition the candidate needs to be a clear communicator, quick to respond to production issues. Out of hours support will be part of the role but only when the individual is comfortable with the systems and technologies.

Key responsibilities

*Provide technical and application support to systems within production environment.
*Day to day management of support issues adhering to current process.
*Monitoring of issues/problems and analysis through to testing and implementation of solutions within production environment.
*Good Client facing and verbal skills for Business users and managers
*Escalation/Delegation to other team members, team leaders and managers

What we are looking for
Essential

*Strong Java skills. Experience or good knowledge of Java/J2EE application development/support in an application server environment
*Good knowledge and experience in the following skilset - XML, XSLT, Unix Scripting and Oracle database.
*Must have good problem analysis/investigation skills and the ability to produce creative sustainable solutions to system issues and user problems.
*Good communications skills and willing to learn and adapt new skills.

MG is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from a diverse background.