Systems Engineer - Private Equity – eFront

Job title : Systems Engineer - Private Equity – eFront
Location : London
Job type : Permanent
Salary : £80000 per annum
Sector : Buy Side
Reference : BH-17293
Systems Engineer -  Private Equity – eFront
£80,000
London
 
A global investment management firm are looking for a Systems engineer to join their growing technology team reporting directly into the CTO. A company that are commissioning eFront as its investment portfolio book of record and investment management platform with the project in its final phase with a project team focused on data migration, report development and functionality testing.
We are looking for an engineer to join the delivery project and assist the final development work before transitioning with the delivered platform into the “business-as-usual” IT Team. You will be working on a range of systems; the role will have specific responsibility for the eFront platform and will be the technology expert for the platform and the standard eFront reporting suite. 
 
Purpose and responsibilities
We need a hands-on system engineer that can:
  • Implement changes to and undertake non-routine maintenance and support the systems (principally, these are Azure-hosted: Microsoft 365, Sun [accounting] and eFront)
  • provide technical support when necessary to a managed service provider that provides first-line response to day-to-day desktop, server and networking issues
  • provide subject matter expertise for systems 
  • maintain the standard reporting suite
  • modify and update the standard reports when necessary
  • manage and maintain a report catalogue
  • help analyse requests for additional standard reports and, when agreed, specify, and deliver additional reports, data extracts, queries and dashboards.
  • rigorously following processes
Experience needed
You will need to have significant experience as a system engineer in a private equity, asset management, investment banking, environment operating with a managed service partner:
  • with experience of eFront or Aladdin platforms (or similar portfolio management/fund admin systems such as Investran, Framework, AnalytX)
  • extensive knowledge of SQL, SSRS, DBMS and reporting tools
  • demonstratable experience of the Microsoft 365 suite and Azure hosting
  • proof of successful management of small technology implementation/change projects
  • some experience in setting up/managing SharePoint sites and sensitivity labelling
  • some experience with a programming language, JavaScript or VB.NET is a plus. 
A great opportunity to join a dynamic and fast-growing organisation as they set to embark on technology journey utilising cloud and the latest technologies.

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