Lead Post-Trade Support Specialist

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.

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 counter parties, 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.

• 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

• 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

• Direct experience supporting a financial market infrastructure such as a central securities depository, central counter party, 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

Based in Muscat, Oman.

Permanent for Omani nationals; two-year fixed-term contract for expatriate hires. Omani nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.