Application Manager Trading

You will own the daily operation, availability, stability, and performance of trading applications. You will manage escalated production incidents, coordinate releases, configure systems, and maintain a prioritized improvement backlog. You will support institutional-client integrations, work with technical and delivery partners, ensure compliance, and maintain platform documentation.

Responsibilities

• Own the daily operation of trading applications
• Manage L2 production-incident triage, resolution, root-cause analysis, and engineering escalations
• Plan and coordinate releases, change control, validation, and verification
• Support institutional-client integration, troubleshooting, and conformance testing
• Configure and maintain platform and application settings
• Manage production-issue and improvement tickets and prioritize the backlog
• Improve platform reliability, speed, and scalability
• Support product initiatives and platform upgrades
• Coordinate with internal teams, clients, and delivery partners
• Ensure adherence to security, regulatory, and compliance requirements including DORA
• Maintain platform documentation and a knowledge base

Requirements

• 5+ years operating or managing production-grade trading or financial-technology platforms in financial services
• Production incident management and root-cause analysis
• Release and change-management coordination
• API-based integrations and system connectivity, including FIX, REST, and WebSocket
• Trading systems and order-management workflows
• Ticketing and backlog-management tools, preferably Jira
• Financial-market regulatory frameworks such as DORA

Benefits

• Regular company-wide meetings, knowledge-sharing sessions, and team events
• Modern central workplace in Zurich with top-tier infrastructure