Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTi) - Associate

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $1.1 trillion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.
 

Business Group: Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTi)
 

Business Group Overview:

Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTI) is the technology team at the core of each of Blackstone’s businesses and new growth initiatives. Serving both internal and external clients, we work to build the next generation of systems that manage risk, create efficiency and improve transparency within the firm and across our broad community of investors and portfolio companies.  

BXTI is nimble and entrepreneurial – our open, iterative design processes and rapid pace of development mean that everyone on the team has the opportunity to make an impact from day one. We are problem solvers who can take projects from idea to implementation. We believe in active mentoring and developing excellence. We collaborate to find the best answers for our customers and for Blackstone. We are critical to the firm maintaining its competitive edge. 

Job Title: Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTi) - Associate

Responsibilities:

• Provide middle office application and end user support to a number of applications used in the company’s trading operations.
• Partake in the production environment, undertaking a combination of in-house and SaaS applications tasks, as well as batch processes, batch scripting and live monitoring assignments.
• Manage the resolution of application and system issues that arise across the business using both business skills and technical IT knowledge.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Communicate with end users / stakeholders regarding issues they encounter and their resolutions.
• Interact with various internal IT support functions to troubleshoot and resolve complex problems as they happen and escalate software issues that cannot be resolved to the development teams.
• Coordinate and perform application production deployments and ensure change management processes are met.
• Manage user onboarding and off boarding in a SOX controlled environment.
• Take ownership of monitoring 24/7 batch scheduled processes to ensure successful completion of batch jobs.
• Undertake setup, maintenance, and mapping for New Funds, Fund Administrator Exports, Management Reporting, etc.
• Undertake key project work for the team including core system upgrades.
• Perform application checkouts during our annual disaster recovery testing process.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

Experience:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in job offered or related occupations.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in a technical support role in the financial service industry.
• Minimum 3 years of experience diagnosing and resolving technical problems affecting both front-end applications and back-end systems with a strong focus on middle office application and end user support to a number of applications used in the company’s trading operations.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in using SQL Server Management Studio, including writing advanced queries, database management, running traces, and optimizing stored procedures.
• Minimum 2 years of experience replicating and resolving integrated system environment issues.
• Minimum 2 years of experience using SQL Server Management Studio, Citrix, Virtual Machines, FIX protocol, trade allocation and settlement tool.
• Minimum 2