Murex Environment and Configuration Manager

Project Description:

DXC-Luxoft has one of the world's leading Solutions practices. We are a top-tier Murex Alliance Partner and a market leader in implementation, integration, upgrade and migration. We provide end-to end project services and have delivered over 200 successful Murex projects across all major asset-classes and sectors including investment banking, asset management, corporate treasury and insurance.

Whether you possess a background in finance, technology or Mathematics, your experience in the capital markets industry would be of high interest to us.

Responsibilities:

• End-to-End Ownership: Take full accountability for the Murex environment lifecycle, ensuring stability, scalability, and performance across all streams.
• Strategic Solution Design: Proactively analyze environment bottlenecks; propose and drive the implementation of architectural improvements and automated solutions rather than just contributing to existing deliverables.
• Decision Making & Governance: Act as the primary technical point of contact for environment-related decisions, defining standards for refreshes, monitoring, and health check protocols.
• Mentorship & Peer Review: Lead and mentor junior/senior team members, providing guidance on complex troubleshooting and ensuring best practices in scripting and CICD pipelines.
• Stakeholder Liaison: Independently manage relationships with internal development teams and client stakeholders to negotiate timelines and prioritize enhancement requests.
• Proactive Release Leadership: Drive the coordination of SIT/UAT release cycles, ensuring all environment dependencies are identified and mitigated well before execution.
• Innovation & Trend Tracking: Continuously evaluate new Murex features and global industry practices (e.g., advanced DevOps/SRE) to incorporate them into the project’s technical roadmap.
• Must accept working EST or staggered hours.
• This role may include occasional on-call or weekend support via a team rotation (one every 2-3 months).

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 6+ years hands-on experience in Murex Infra/Environment/Config Management, Scripting
• 4+ years hands-on experience with CICD (e.g. Ansible), and GIT (proficiency)
• Experience with Back-Office Workflows, Datamart, Market Data, Batch processing, End of Day flow(s), interfaces and Trade Life Cycle
• Leadership: Proven experience in a technical lead or environment management lead capacity within a Murex ecosystem.
• Accountability: Demonstrated ability to own high-pressure production support issues and drive them to resolution.
• Must have strong personality, logical and analytical skills
• Be detailed-oriented, a quick learner and self-starter
• Possess good verbal and written communication skills
• Must have strong organization skills
• Strong problem solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong relationship building skills both internally and externally
• Strong experience in supporting end-users and resolving their daily issues
• Must accept working EST or staggered hours.
• This role may include occasional on-call or weekend support via a team rotation (one every 2-3 months).

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

BS or higher degree in Finance, Mathematics, Computer Science or equivalent

• Implementations and upgrades: MXpress; MXplus updates and MX.3 main-branch upgrades
• Interfaces (Market Data, C2.0)
• Test management
• Trade life cycle management
• Market Data management
• Knowledge in SQL (Oracle and/or Sybase) and Unix commands is a plus
• Client focus: understands clients' businesses; identifies and understands the needs and objectives of clients, both on an individual and corporate basis; builds strong relationships to aid Luxoft's aim of being a trusted partner to the clients.
• Communication skills: expresses ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing; adjusts language, terminology and non-verbal communication as appropriate.
• Teamwork: works effectively with others; helps to build strong teams and networks.
• Personal leadership: realistically identifies own skills, experience, knowledge and other personal attributes; displays confidence and resilience.
• Planning and organizing: identifies and meets milestones; understands and articulates deliverables; assesses and mitigates risks; sticks to the scope of work and manages any changes.
• Analytical decision-making: identifies and solves problems using insight and experience to make good decisions; gathers relevant information, identifying important issues and drawing conclusions