SIX drives the transformation of financial markets.
What sets us apart drives us ahead: between local roots and global relevance, we are a unique blend of tradition and future, of foundation and growth. We value bright minds and inspire them to grow with their ideas. Come and shape the future of finance with us.
Senior Application Engineer (100%)
Zurich | up to 40% working from home possible | Reference 8017
You are enthusiastic about exciting projects in the financial industry, you enjoy working with internal and external interfaces and you are good at managing IT systems? Then become part of our IT team.
What You Will Do
- develop, maintain, and support IT applications in the Connectivity Area for Post Trading using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Integration, and related frameworks. Collaborate closely with business and technical stakeholders to understand requirements, translate them into effective solutions, and communicate clearly across different stakeholder groups
- ensure smooth IT operations (3rd Level application support) and incident management within SLA requirements, including ITSM processes, service desk activities, problem resolution, and participation in a rotating on-call (picket) support schedule (approx. once every 4–6 weeks) using Jira and Confluence.
- implement and deploy new releases across Development, Test, and Production environments (OCP, Linux), leveraging CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitLab, Maven, JFrog.
- adhere to architectural, security, and compliance standards throughout the development lifecycle, utilizing best practices and tools like SonarQube and XRAY.
- drives continuous improvement in application SLAs, monitoring, and automation by leveraging, Grafana, Elastic, Ansible and proactively managing technical debt.
- interacts with other stakeholders: Application Architects, Solution Designers, Project Teams and Developers
What You Bring
- 9-14 years of hands-on experience in software development, application maintenance, and production support, with a strong commitment to resolving critical issues.
- solid experience in Java technologies (Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate) and with relational databases such as Oracle and MS SQL.
- proficiency with modern DevOps and automation tools, including Git, Maven, Helm 3, Ansible, and Argo CD.
- experience in C/C++ is a plus
- ability to thrive in fast-paced, agile environments, demonstrating flexibility to work outside normal hours when needed to support production.
- excellent English communication skills (written and spoken) are required; domain knowledge of banking or post-trading services is a plus.
If you have any questions, check out our FAQ page or call Beata Czyzewska at +48 22 104 6571 / +41 58 399 9800 / +34 91 330 51 49.
For this vacancy we only accept direct applications.
Diversity is important to us. Therefore, we are looking to receiving applications regardless of any personal background.