Application Engineer

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Application Engineer

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Employment type: Full time permanent

JOB SUMMARY:

Reporting to the System Operations Director, you will belong to an international team that designs, plans, builds, tests and implements new technical solutions.

Where will you be working?

Nasdaq Global Technology Services (GTS) is committed to maintaining Nasdaq’s technology leadership position by developing and delivering innovative, cost efficient and short time-to-market technology solutions to our business partners and customers around the world. A key responsibility for the Operations Support EU team is to operate several of Europe’s fastest and largest trading and clearing solutions. These are complex systems with very high quality requirements, and Nasdaq is now looking to add highly skilled Application Engineers to the team. This is an extraordinary opportunity to join the world’s leading exchange company Nasdaq; growing professionally and intellectually while working at the forefront of finance and technology.

What are your daily activities?

• Your main responsibility will be to ensure 100% uptime on the trading and clearing system as well as making sure that NASDAQ always delivers within the SLA agreements
• You will take the lead role in Major Incidents at exchanges that need immediate attention
• In order to solve upcoming issues, you will collaborate closely with other internal teams (e.g. development, project management, system management teams) on a global scale
• The team provides support 24 hours 7 days a week, and as part of the second line support you will be on call for any unresolved issues on a rotating schedule
• Furthermore, you will be involved in internal projects, configuring, installing, maintaining and upgrading the trading and clearing application as well as plan and execute failover- and performance testing

Your skills and competencies

• Broad experience of application management of large complex platforms.
• Expect you to have around 3-5 years of experience, preferably from working with      financial systems.
• Knowledge in technologies ranging from infrastructure to functionality, including SQL      database, Scripting languages like Java, Spring, JDBC, Hibernate, Junit and Linux  and General Operating Systems knowledge.
• Previous experience working as a tester of large high availability real-time installations that required failover and performance testing, this would be a plus. 
• Expecting you to be customer centered, with an agile and analytical mindset; as well as a strong drive to achieve results, ensure high quality and solve complex problems.

Nasdaq offers a challenging, dynamic, multicultural work environment with a competitive salary, bonus and a comprehensive benefits package. Learn more about Nasdaq at:

-      Nasdaq Ignite your ambition: TECH, TRADE, INTEL, LIST

-       or go to www.business.nasdaq.com

Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) is a leading provider of trading, clearing, exchange technology, listing, information and public company services across six continents. Through its diverse portfolio of solutions, Nasdaq enables customers to plan, optimize and execute their business vision with confidence, using proven technologies that provide transparency and insight for navigating today’s global capital markets. As the creator of the world’s first electronic stock market, its technology powers more than 70 marketplaces in 50 countries, and 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Nasdaq is home to more than 3,500 listed companies with a market value of over $9.1 trillion and more than 10,000 corporate clients. To learn more, visit www.nasdaq.com/ambition or business.nasdaq.com.

NASDAQ is an equal opportunity employer. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, color, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information or any other status protected by applicable law.