Application Support Specialist

Goodman Masson is partnering with a new financial markets infrastructure venture under formation in Oman. Backed by prominent institutional investors, the business is building a greenfield post-trade platform from the ground up and is now hiring during the build phase.

This is a rare opportunity to join a business at the start of its journey, helping establish critical financial market infrastructure before taking ownership of its ongoing production support.

The Role

We are looking for anApplication Support Specialist with strong Linux expertise, ideally with experience supporting applications withinbanking, financial services or capital markets.

You will be responsible for the operational health and stability of the post-trade platform in production, covering settlement, registry, corporate actions, reconciliation, integrations and messaging.

During the build phase, you will help establish the support framework, processes and tooling required to operate the platform effectively. Once live, you will take ownership of the day-to-day application support function, ensuring issues are identified, managed and resolved before they impact settlement or market participants.

What You’ll Do

• Provide2nd and 3rd line application supportacross settlement, registry, clearing and corporate actions.
• Monitor production processes across trade, settlement, corporate actions and reconciliation, proactively identifying and resolving exceptions.
• Ownincident, problem and root-cause management, acting as the technical lead during major incidents.
• Support and monitor messaging and integration interfaces, includingSWIFT, ISO 15022 and ISO 20022.
• Investigate and resolve application, messaging and interface failures.
• Own the batch processing environment and enterprise scheduling, ensuring critical processes run within settlement-day deadlines.
• Develop production monitoring, support procedures, runbooks and escalation processes.
• Help design and establish therun-phase application support model.
• Work closely with technology, operations, vendors and business stakeholders to maintain a resilient production environment.
• Contribute to the recruitment and development of the future application support team.

Requirements

What You’ll Bring

• 6- 10 years’ experience in application or production support, ideally within banking, financial services or capital market.
• Strong hands-onLinux/Unix experience, withLinux certification strongly preferred.
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting critical production applications in a financial services environment.
• Good understanding of thepost-trade lifecycle, including settlement, clearing, corporate actions and reconciliations.
• Exposure to multiple asset classes, ideallyequities, fixed income and derivatives.
• Experience supportingSWIFT ISO 15022 and/or ISO 20022messaging environments.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise schedulers such asControl-M or AutoSys.
• StrongSQL and scriptingcapabilities, ideally including Shell and/or Python.
• Experience with production monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
• Understanding ofITIL-aligned incident, problem and change management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Desirable Experience

The following would be particularly valuable:

• Experience supporting afinancial market infrastructure, such as a central securities depository, central counterparty, exchange or settlement system.
• Experience with acentral securities depository or clearing platform.
• Familiarity with theCPMI-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures, particularly operational risk and resilience.
• ITIL certification.
• Strong scripting and automation experience usingPython, Shell or similar technologies.
• Experience working in environments where system availability, settlement finality and operational resilience are critical.

Benefits

Location and terms

Based in Muscat, Oman. Permanent for Omani nationals; two-year fixed-term contract for expatriate hires. Omani nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.

If this is your kind of build, please apply now!