Lead Post-Trade Support Specialist

The opportunity

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 platform from the ground up, and is now hiring at the build stage. This is a rare chance to help stand up critical market infrastructure from a blank sheet and then run what you have built.

The role

As Lead Post-Trade Support Specialist you own the operational health of the post-trade platform in production: the settlement and registry lifecycle, corporate actions and reconciliation, the interfaces to settlement banks and market counterparties, and the messaging that carries every instruction in and out. On a single-platform business this is the function that keeps settlement finality flowing and stands between a production fault and a settlement failure. In the build phase you design the support model that will run the platform. In the run phase you operate the service and the team you have designed.

What you will do

• Own second- and third-line application support across the settlement, registry, clearing, and corporate actions functions
• Monitor the trade, settlement, corporate actions, and reconciliation lifecycle in production, and act on exceptions before they reach participants
• Own incident, problem, and root-cause management, and lead the technical bridge in a major incident
• Support and monitor the messaging and integration layer including SWIFT ISO 15022 and ISO 20022, and resolve message and interface failures
• Own the batch estate and the schedulers that drive the settlement day, and recover processing within the settlement-day timetable
• Design the run-phase support model, author the runbooks, and build and lead the support team

What you will bring

• Degree in computer science, information technology, or a related discipline
• Six to ten years in post-trade support within capital markets or a comparable financial institution
• Deep knowledge of the post-trade lifecycle: settlement, clearing, corporate actions, reconciliations, and off-market transactions
• Knowledge across asset classes: equities, fixed income, and derivatives
• Direct experience supporting a SWIFT ISO 15022 or ISO 20022 integration layer
• Hands-on experience with an enterprise scheduler such as Control-M or Autosys
• Strong SQL, Unix or Linux, and scripting, with production monitoring tools
• ITIL-aligned incident, problem, and change management
• Fluent English, written and spoken

Also of interest

• Direct experience supporting a financial market infrastructure such as a central securities depository, central counterparty, exchange, or settlement system
• Familiarity with the CPMI-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures, particularly the operational risk and resilience principles
• Experience supporting a modern central securities depository or clearing platform
• ITIL certification
• Depth in scripting and automation such as Python or shell

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!