# Application Support Specialist - Equity Derivatives

**Company**: Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
**Location**: Toronto, Ontario
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

You will be supporting the Sophis application for the equity derivatives business, a critical application used for life cycle management of trades from trade feed to PnL and risk management and settlement.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Quickly addressing issues pertaining to front office, middle office, and back office that impact the business' ability to perform daily functions

- Driving improved stability and higher quality of data delivered to front office, middle office, and back office

- Contributing to and improving the configuration of the monitoring platform ITRS, while actioning triggered events

- Documenting new issues that occur and maintaining/enhancing existing documentation to ensure consistent steps performed for known issues

- Coordinating between several groups to remediate issues (Support, Development, Analytics, Quants)

- Investigating pricing failures and resolving issues utilizing various skills including SQL, Unix, Windows

- Developing scripts to automate processes using Powershell and other scripting languages

- Engaging in platform-related projects which include vulnerability remediation, business continuity practice, and automation of day-to-day tasks

- Performing change and release practices to deploy proprietary and vendor-based software

- Weekend checkouts on rotation will be required to ensure a stable start of the week

- Rotation of shift schedules might require late shifts (10-7 PM EST)

To succeed in this role, you will need:

- 3+ years of experience supporting applications on equity derivatives or similar business

- SQL language (3 years, Oracle preferred)

- Python scripting experience (1-2 years)

- Monitoring experience of high-availability trading applications, batch processing, or similar

- Job Scheduler experience (i.e., BMC Control-M, Autosys, Cron, etc.)

- Windows Server (3 years)

- Linux experience (3 years)

Nice-to-have skills include:

- ITRS Geneos Monitoring Software

- Experience supporting risk management and analytics applications/infrastructure

- Kubernetes/Docker experience

- GRID/Datasynapse

- Databricks

- Kafka

In terms of benefits, you can expect:

- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable

- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

- Opportunities to do challenging work

- Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities

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## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- Python
- Unix
- Windows
- Linux
- ITRS Geneos Monitoring Software
- BMC Control-M
- Autosys
- Cron

### Nice to have
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- GRID/Datasynapse
- Databricks
- Kafka

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