Total 8 job vacancies by Ambition Group Singapore Pte. Ltd.

Main responsibilities

• Resolve incidents impacting users swiftly and efficiently. Thorough investigation and communication throughout the incident lifecycle. Proactive identification of workarounds. Effective coordination of stakeholders during significant incidents. Clear and timely communication to users, senior management, and other IT stakeholders.
• Handle user requests promptly and effectively. Prioritizing requests based on urgency and impact. Escalating requests when necessary while remaining the primary point of contact for the user.
• Drive sustainable solutions to prevent recurring issues. Identifying root causes of incidents and defining remediation actions. Proposing solutions such as feature development, automation, or online help updates for recurring requests.
• Serve as the primary communication channel between IT and stakeholders
• Follow CMI Run processes, standards, and recommendations provided by the Run Control Tower, actively contributing to their improvement.
• Write and maintain programmable code outlined in technical instructions and specifications for software applications and operating systems.

Incidents and Requests and Incidents management (business users and others IT teams)

• Provide level 1 and 2 application support to the business users (E.g. back and middle office users…)
• Analyze and manage functional and technical incidents/problems/requests coming

Application monitoring and deployment responsibilities

• Define and implement in coordination with the build team the needed application monitoring
• Supervise and monitor daily and monthly chains and handle user request by working closely with project, infrastructure and production teams
• Contribute to software releases and other planned activities (E.g. DRP…) to ensure good health and expected behavior of the applications

Problem management and continuous improvement

• Prepare and maintain knowledge base for each of the application in the scope of the team in coordination with the build team and the ops team
• Collaborate with build team to assess the priority of the problem and follow-up the resolution, even contributing to the definition of long-term solution.
• Provide non-functional requirement to the build team to implement monitoring as code whenever available.

Job Requirements:

• Basic knowledge of Java, PL/SQL & Linux.
• Good knowledge in Linux / Unix platform and database management systems( SQL, Oracle, Sybase, BigData…..), PL/SQL, Middleware (E.g. MQ Series), File Transfer (E.g. CFT) and batch/Job Scheduling (Autosys/Control-M).
• Experience with automation frameworks and libraries.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Shell script, PowerShell, SQL…)
• Valuable exposure to tools & technologies like Elastic Search, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Control-M, KAFKA, Confluence, Jira, Gitlab, MQ Series
• Experience in DevOps tooling (GIT, Maven/Graven/Nuget/Ansible, Jenkins…)
• Experience with Docker/Kurbernetes
• ITRS Geneos monitoring
• Experience in supporting capital market applications and trading systems, ideally within the dynamic landscape of Market Risk/Front Office operations with a commendable grasp of financial products (Treasury, FX, Credit, IRD, Bonds, RSF etc.)
• Any Object-oriented language: Java
• Domain-Driven design and Microservices: springboot
• Exposure to Capital Markets applications
• Candidates should have ITIL certification
• Understanding of trade life cycle, financial products (E.g. IRD, Treasury, FX, Bonds, Credit…)
• Exposure to Capital Market FO/BO system (E.g. Kondor+, Summit, Murex…) and ideally Summit
• Proficient in software development life cycle and Devops concepts
• Willing to support release activity during weekend.

Interested applicants please send your resume in MS Word format and attention it to Tan Joanna (R1104661)

Shortlisted candidates will be notified

Data provided is for recruitment purposes only

www.ambition.com.sg

EA Registration Number: R1104661

Business Registration Number: 200611680D. Licence Number: 10C5117

Roles and Responsibilities

Cluster Setup and Maintenance:

• Install, configure, and maintain big data platforms like Hadoop Clusters, Elastic Search, Spark, Kafka, Hive etc.
• Set up and manage distributed file systems (HDFS) and NoSQL databases (HBase, Cassandra).
• Ensuring high availability and reliability of Hadoop, Kafka and Elasticsearch Clusters.

Performance Optimization:

• Monitor system performance, fine-tune jobs, and optimize cluster utilization.
• Manage and resolve performance bottlenecks in big data environments.

Security Management:

• Implement data security policies, user authentication (Kerberos), and access control (Ranger, Knox).
• Regularly review and plan patch systems to ensure data integrity.
• Apply updates, patches, and version upgrades to all managed systems.
• Ensuring the backward compatibility and minimal downtime during upgrades.

Backup and Recovery:

• Plan and implement backup and recovery strategies for big data environments.
• Develop disaster recovery solutions and test failover scenarios.

Workflow Automation:

• Design and implement workflows using tools like Apache Oozie or Apache Airflow.
• Automate cluster management tasks like upgrades and scaling.
• Developing shell scripts and Ansible Playbooks to automate routine tasks, including monitoring, backups, and deployments.

Monitoring and Support:

• Monitor logs, metrics, and system health using tools like Ambari, Cloudera Manager, or Prometheus.
• Provide 24/7 on-call support for production systems and resolve incidents.

Collaboration:

• Work closely with data engineers and developers to support ETL pipelines and data processing jobs.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure big data systems meet organizational needs.
• Working transversally with other teams to guarantee high data quality and availability.

Cloud migration

• Migration planning from On-premises to GCP & AWS cloud

Required Skills and Qualifications

Technical Skills:

• Strong knowledge of big data ecosystems (Hadoop, HDFS, YARN, Hive, HBase, Spark, Kafka and Elastic Search).
• Proficiency in Linux/Unix system administration.
• Experience with monitoring tools like Nagios, Grafana, or Splunk, HPOMI.
• Scripting skills in Python, Ansible, Shell, or Bash.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their big data services.

Soft Skills:

• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to handle high-pressure production environments.

Preferred Experience

• 8-9 years of experience in big data administration or similar roles.
• Hands-on experience in scaling and managing large, big data clusters in production environments.

Interested applicants please send your resume in MS Word format and attention it to Tan Joanna (R1104661)

Shortlisted candidates will be notified

Data provided is for recruitment purposes only

www.ambition.com.sg

EA Registration Number: R1104661

Business Registration Number: 200611680D. Licence Number: 10C5117

Job responsibilities:

SSRS, SSAS Development:

• Design, develop, and deploy interactive and paginated reports using SSRS.
• Optimize reports for performance and maintainability.
• Optimizing and maintenance of SSAS projects.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver customized reporting solutions.
• Perform non-functional testing

SSIS Development:

• Design and develop robust ETL workflows using SSIS to extract, transform, and load data from various sources.
• Monitor and troubleshoot SSIS packages for performance and error resolution.
• Implement data quality and validation checks during ETL processes.

Data Management & Analysis:

• Design and optimize database schemas to support BI solutions.
• Develop complex T-SQL queries, stored procedures, and functions for reporting and ETL purposes.
• Perform data profiling and ensure data accuracy and integrity.
• Knowledge in all other SQL server objects such as functions, views, synonyms, etc.)

Collaboration & Documentation:

• Work closely with business analysts, data analysts, and other developers to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions.
• Document technical designs, workflows, and user guides for BI solutions.

Performance Optimization:

• Conduct performance tuning of SSRS reports, SSIS packages, and SQL queries.
• Ensure efficient and scalable BI solutions that handle growing datasets.

Leadership and Project Management

• Communicate and collaborate with architects, stakeholders, business, and project managers to gather requirements and define technical solution
• Develops detailed technical work plans, estimates, improvement plans and status reports
• Perform regular peer-reviews, maintain low technical debts, assess & up-skill junior staffs
• Take ownership and leadership of medium-size projects
• Able to mentor / guide Junior Devs or Team members on the technical and project knowledge acquired
• Prepare KPI and report to transverse project manager and management about the projects in your scope
• Contribute to initiatives managed at department level (continuous improvement, innovation…)

BAU

• Provide L3 Support on applications - analyze and resolve issues as they arise
• Maintain existing BI solutions / ETL pipelines and propose continuous improvements
• Ability to design appropriate solution and Challenge and Recommend solutions as per the business needs in compliant to the company’s standards
• Ensure the respect of the company’s code of conduct and compliance rules within the team

Requirements:

• At least 8 years of work experience in leading Microsoft BI projects, including SSRS, SSIS, and SQL Server.
• Strong proficiency in T-SQL, including query optimization and stored procedures.
• Hands-on experience with ETL processes and data integration using SSIS.
• Good exposure and usage experience in CI/CD tools / processes
• Expertise in designing and developing reports using SSRS.
• Strong knowledge of relational database concepts and best practices.
• Familiarity with data warehousing principles and dimensional modelling.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work in a team environment
• Relational databases – MSSQL
• SSIS, SSRS, SSAS
• PowerShell, Power BI and other Microsoft technologies (.Net, .Net Core, C#) are a plus
• Good to have knowledge or experience with Apache Spark SQL
• Build management using TFS or Nexus
• Workload automation and scheduling tools such as CTRL-M is a plus
• Experience in Compliance, Capital Markets or Market Abuse Domain is required
• Experience in Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessment is a plus

Interested applicants please send your resume in MS Words format and attention it to Tan Joanna (R1104661)

Short listed candidates will be notified

www.ambition.com.sg

EA Registration Number: R1104661

Data provided is for recruitment purposes only

Business Registration Number: 200611680D. Licence Number: 10C5117

Job Duties:

• assigns technical tasks and manages delegation for technical issues,

• animates the team to encourage collaboration and sharing of best practices,

• has a role in supporting technical skills development and provides training when required

• supports new technologies and leverages them to provide consistency of service across streams

• manages service improvements for all Citrix and VDI services supported throughout the organization

• documents, reviews, maintains and shares relevant technical information to the team

• provides technical direction, supports services both proactively and reactively to maintain the availability and reliability of system infrastructure in accordance to the SLA,

• implements and develops improvements based on firm’s best practices,

• focuses on automation and optimum use of the team to improve efficiency,

• drives and delivers root cause for any high severity issue,

• reviews technology changes to identify potential risks,

• is responsible for problem management and resolution

As an experienced professional in Citrix- VDI Services, he/she:

• supports his/her team during diagnosis when technical issues rise in his/her scope of expertise,

• is aware of the global IT structure so that he/she anticipates interrelationships within the organization,

• engages with technical peer, Service managers, Architect and project teams on technology roadmap and projects,

• facilitates transformation projects and suggest future directions for new areas of improvement and change,

• manage L3 activities which involve direct relationships with end users and L3 activities like architecture, design, project management, etc.

• guarantees the production readiness and license to operate of new projects and solutions

• is available and able to drive technically, any complex or high severity incidents that occur within the scope of their role

• actively engages to understand new technologies and technology trends and reviews them with a view to incorporating them into the firm’s operations

• actively assists in identifying the most technical skilled candidates for open roles

• define the technical skillset required to support the firm’s technologies.

As the escalation point of contact for Clients, he/she:

• manages the daily relationship with Clients including planning, requests clarification, risks mitigation and service quality

• technically coach and develop partner resources to improve productivity

• have to maintain a smooth relation with partners, vendors and global clients/teams

As a member of ISAP/ITS, he/she:

• facilitates collaboration and spread of information from and to the team,

• participates to the department’s activities including brainstorming, team building and other team or transversal actions,

• fosters innovation mindset,

• contributes to ISAP/ITS global branding and communication

• focus on automation and optimum use of the team to improve efficiency

Job specific environment and/or organization

• Working hours will primarily match Europe business hours

• On-call support will be expected on a rotational basis

Qualifications and Profile

• Minimum 8~10 years of experience in managing an Enterprise Citrix environment, preferably in financial sector.

• Microsoft and Citrix certification such as MSCE and CCEE is preferred.

• Strong experience with Xenapp 7.x, 6.5, Xendesktop 4 / 5.5,7.x in a Windows 2008 /2012/2016 environment and latest versions of the product.

• Experience with Provisioning Services on Windows 2012, 2016 Hyper-V and Netscaler.

• In-depth working knowledge of the Windows environment with at least 3~5 years of Windows administration experience and a strong understanding of network concepts.

• In-depth working knowledge of Altiris deployment tools, Appsense and Visual Basic, PowerShell scripting.

• Prior working experience with Virtualization, VDI management, App-V and application packaging will be highly advantageous.

• Must be able to perform in 24 x 7 environment and to attend to on-call basis whenever required

• Customer service oriented, able to work in a dynamic and fast paced environment

• Excellent communication, interpersonal and troubleshooting skills

• Must be self-motivated and directed and demonstrate a keen attention to detail and possess the ability to work autonomously

Interested applicants please send your resume in MS Word format and attention it to Joanna Tan (R1104661).

Shortlisted candidates will be notified

Data provided is for recruitment purposes only

www.ambition.com.sg

Business Registration Number: 200611680D. Licence Number: 10C5117

*Rotational shifts: Members in the team will rotate accordingly around 3 shifts (time will shift to an hour later during the daylight-saving time in the year).

**On call support: This covers 7 consecutive days during non-business hours to manage escalated incidents and to work on planned changes, weekend included.

• Morning: 7am-4pm

• Afternoon:2pm-11pm

• Evening: 5pm-2am

Main responsibilities

You will mainly be responsible for:

• Performing all run activities in respect of the firm’s process, ensuring:

– SLA and priorities are respected

– Appropriate reaction, in line with the severity of an incident or escalation.

– Firm’s process are dully followed (service request, change, incident, problem management)

– Management of technical issues, escalations and ensuring good level of delivery

– Primary operational technical support and assist the functional support teams

– Good collaboration between various teams

• Continuous improvement of service

– Propose improvement and solution to reduce repetitive tasks

– Improving complex operations (DRP, Migrations, Major maintenance etc.)

– Improving reliability and quality of our systems (automation, monitoring, alerting, security, RCA etc.)

– Reducing time-to-market by implementing CICD pipelines where possible

– Improve and standardize existing workflow processes and framework

– Bridging the gap between Dev and Ops

• Managing knowledge within the team

– Share the knowledge within teams

– Promoting knowledge sharing within the organization (trainings, documentations etc.)

• Driving the most complex operations & ensures they are well prepared (involvement on DRP test, WIP, etc…).

– Act as global coordinator main events.

– Review of major releases roadmaps

– Ensure post checks are documented, performed and report is shared

Job Requirements:

– The position requires a minimum of 3 years relevant experiences as a production support or at least infrastructure support or development role.

– Experience in a banking environment is a plus.

– Minimum 3 years of experience with UNIX environments

– Minimum 3 years of experience in scripting languages such as Python, Powershell

– Minimum 2 years of hands on experience in any of these tools and technologies such as Ansible, Gitlab, Azure Devops, Docker, Kubernetes

– Experience with task schedulers such as Control-M

– Good understanding of IT ecosystems and application architectures

– Knowledge about : CICD pipelines, ITIL practices, Agile practices, Lean, Observability tools such as Grafana, Kibana, Prometheus, or Dynatrace is a plus

Interested applicants please send your resume in MS Word format and attention it to Tan Joanna (R1104661).

Shortlisted candidates will be notified

Data provided is for recruitment purposes only

www.ambition.com.sg

EA Registration Number: R1104661

Business Registration Number: 200611680D. Licence Number: 10C5117

Main responsibilities

Responsible for the functional knowledge

· Write detailed specifications/US in line with the list of requirements provided

· Liaise with business for clarification and understanding of requirements

· Analyze functional impacts considering technical constraints with technical lead’s help

· Explain and work closely with the developers for the implementation of change/evolutions

Responsible for the functional testing of development

· Create tests and define tests strategy in coordination with project manager / Others Business Analysts

· Conduct continuous testing in development environment for development monitoring

Involved in support of application for functional incident

· 3rd level support work on request escalated from level 2

· Reproduce, make initial analysis and investigate by verifying data on the database or GUI

· Analyze and/or solve functional problems in coordination with developers

Job Requirements:

· Minimum 6 years of experience as an IT Business Analyst from requirements gathering, solution planning, testing and documentation

· Proven experience in testing (writing, executing and monitoring test) particularly in managing of end-to-end testing for application releases

· Good knowledge of all phases of IT software development

· Capable to coordinate with both business and technical teams

· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to answer to business needs

· Excellent communication skills

· Proactive and result-oriented

· Has strong sense of responsibility and commitment

· Collaborative team player and is willing to share knowledge

Functional

· Corporate finance knowledge

· Experience on project management is a plus

Technical

• Experience with backlog management tools such as Jira and Azure TFS

• Knowledge and practical usage of SQL

• Exposure to API development is a plus

Interested applicants please send your resume in MS Word format and attention it to Tan Joanna (R1104661)

Shortlisted candidates will be notified

Data provided is for recruitment purposes only

www.ambition.com.sg

EA Registration Number: R1104661

Business Registration Number: 200611680D. Licence Number: 10C5117

*Rotational shifts: Members in the team will rotate accordingly around 3 shifts (time will shift to an hour later during the daylight saving time period in the year).

**On call support: This covers 7 consecutive days during non-business hours to manage escalated incidents and to work on planned changes, weekend included.

• Morning: 7am-4pm

• Afternoon:2pm-11pm

• Evening: 5pm-2am

Main responsibilities

You will mainly be responsible for:

• Performing all run activities in respect of firm’s process, ensuring :

– SLA and priorities are respected

– Appropriate reaction, in line with the severity of an incident or escalation.

– Firm’s process are dully followed (service request, change, incident, problem management)

– Management of technical issues, escalations and ensuring good level of delivery

– Primary operational technical support and assist the functional support teams

– Good collaboration between various teams

• Continuous improvement of service

– Propose improvement and solution to reduce repetitive tasks

– Improving complex operations (DRP, Migrations, Major maintenance etc.)

– Improving reliability and quality of our systems (automation, monitoring, alerting, security, RCA etc.)

– Reducing time-to-market by implementing CICD pipelines where possible

– Improve and standardize existing workflow processes and framework

– Bridging the gap between Dev and Ops

• Managing knowledge within the team

– Share the knowledge within AS teams through the WIKI

– Promoting knowledge sharing within the organization (trainings, documentations etc.)

• Driving the most complex operations & ensures they are well prepared (involvement on DRP test, WIP, etc…).

– Act as global coordinator main events.

– Review of major releases roadmaps

– Ensure post checks are documented, performed and report is shared

Job Requirements:

– The position requires a minimum of 3 years relevant experiences as a production support or at least infrastructure support or development role.

– Experience in a banking environment is a plus.

– Minimum 3 years of experience with UNIX environments

– Minimum 3 years of experience in scripting languages such as Python, Powershell

– Minimum 2 years of hands on experience in any of these tools and technologies such as Ansible, Gitlab, Azure Devops, Docker, Kubernetes

– Experience with task schedulers such as Control-M

– Good understanding of IT ecosystems and application architectures

– Knowledge about : CICD pipelines, ITIL practices, Agile practices, Lean, Observability tools such as Grafana, Kibana, Prometheus, or Dynatrace is a plus

Interested applicants please send your resume in MS Word format and attention it to Joanna Tan (R1104661).

Shortlisted candidates will be notified

Data provided is for recruitment purposes only

www.ambition.com.sg

Business Registration Number: 200611680D. Licence Number: 10C5117

Main Responsibilities:

Application monitoring responsibilities

• Define and implement in coordination with the build team the needed application monitoring.

• Supervise and monitor daily and monthly chains and handle user request by working closely with project, infrastructure and production teams.

• Support overnight batches which take place during the Singapore Morning and early afternoon time to ensure that problems are swiftly analyzed and resolved to minimize down-time.

• Process and issue daily, weekly and monthly reporting on data quality of risk chain in which the activity is usually more intense on monthly run.

Incidents and Requests management (business users and others IT teams)

• Provide level 1 and level 2 application support to business users (trader, risk manager, market risk monitoring operator, back-office and middle-office analyst, market data administrator…)

• Analyze and manage incidents/problems/requests.

Problem management and continuous improvement

• Prepare and maintain knowledge base for each of the application in the scope of the team in coordination with the build team and the ops team.

• Collaborate with build team to assess the priority of the problem and follow-up the resolution, even contributing to the definition of long term solution.

• Provide non-functional requirement to the build team to implement monitoring as code whenever available.

The Support analyst should have a pro-active mindset in security, incident preventive measures, productivity and global improvement of the quality of service. Candidate should have a strong appetite in the capital market functional business.

Shift Timings

• Work hours : 8:45am – 6:30pm SGT and shift rotation 5PM – 2AM SGT

• Rotational Week-end support.

Job Requirements:

• Master’s degree in relevant specialities

• Candidates should have at least 4 years experience in application support activity.

• ITIL certification.

• Good understanding of Capital Markets Domain and market activities.

• Relevant experience on Asset Control software

• Exposure to the Capital Markets with proficiency in financial instruments (Bonds, Rates, Equity, etc..), trading lifecycle and specifically market data.

• Relevant experience with working with external source like Bloomberg, reuters

• Expertise in static market data with knowledge of data types, sources, and uses within financial systems, including reference data, price data.

• Proven experience in technical proficiency with strong skills in SQL,

• High level of proficiency in unix/linux scripting.

• Strong knowledge in XML, PL/SQL, MQ, CFT and Control-M.

• Knowledge of monitoring solutions (E.g ITRS Geneos, Elastic Search)

• Ability to work well under pressure.

Interested applicants please send your resume in MS Word format and attention it to Tan Joanna (R1104661)

Shortlisted candidates will be notified

Data provided is for recruitment purposes only

www.ambition.com.sg

EA Registration Number: R1104661

Business Registration Number: 200611680D. Licence Number: 10C5117