Murex Environment Management -Principal Consultant

Murex Environment Management

About the Role

We are seeking a highly experienced, hands-on Murex Environment Management Consultant to take technical ownership of complex MX.3 environments across development, SIT, UAT, pre-production, production and disaster recovery. The role combines deep Murex platform expertise with enterprise-scale environment engineering, release and change governance, automation, performance, resilience and technical leadership in a banking or capital markets setting.

The successful candidate will lead complex upgrades, migrations and production-critical initiatives, establish environment standards and operating models, guide engineering teams, and act as the senior escalation point for high-severity platform issues.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end Murex environment strategy, architecture, configuration, lifecycle and operational readiness across multiple MX.3 landscapes.
• Lead complex environment builds, refreshes, cloning, database and configuration migrations, upgrades, patching, hotfixes and controlled releases.
• Design robust deployment and release processes, including CI/CD, automated validation, rollback, configuration consistency and segregation of duties.
• Provide technical leadership for production stability, incident response, root cause analysis, performance tuning, capacity planning and problem prevention.
• Partner with infrastructure, database, middleware, network, security, development, QA and production support teams to resolve cross-platform dependencies.
• Define and enforce environment governance, change controls, release calendars, audit evidence, access management and operational standards.
• Drive high availability, disaster recovery planning, resilience testing, backup/recovery and business continuity readiness.
• Lead technical assessments and implementation plans for Murex upgrades, major migrations, infrastructure transformations and platform modernisation.
• Build reusable automation, monitoring, health checks, housekeeping routines and self-service capabilities to improve reliability and reduce manual effort.
• Mentor environment engineers and support teams, review technical designs, lead technical workshops and communicate platform risks to senior stakeholders.
• Maintain architecture documentation, configuration baselines, operational runbooks, deployment procedures and recovery playbooks.

Mandatory Skills & Experience

• Minimum 15 years of overall IT experience, including substantial hands-on Murex MX.3 environment management experience in enterprise banking environments.
• Proven technical ownership of complex, multi-environment Murex estates and senior-level leadership of upgrades, migrations and production-critical releases.
• Deep understanding of MX.3 architecture, application components, environment dependencies, deployment patterns and operational lifecycle.
• Advanced Unix/Linux administration, shell scripting, troubleshooting and automation expertise.
• Strong working knowledge of Oracle databases, SQL, database refresh/restore concepts and coordination with database administrators.
• Demonstrated experience in release orchestration, change management, production incident management, root cause analysis and service restoration.
• Experience with scheduling, enterprise monitoring, performance and capacity management, security controls and operational governance.
• Ability to lead technical teams and influence architects, infrastructure owners, delivery leads and senior banking stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical issues into clear risks, decisions and actions.

Preferred Experience

• 15+ years of direct Murex-related experience is highly desirable, depending on depth and complexity of assignments.
• Experience with large-scale MX.3 upgrades, data centre or cloud migrations, platform consolidation and infrastructure modernisation.
• Exposure to Git-based CI/CD, Jenkins or comparable pipeline tools, Ansible or similar automation frameworks, and observability platforms.
• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, middleware, integration interfaces and enterprise security architecture.
• Working knowledge of Murex functional areas such as Front Office, Market Risk, Credit Risk, Datamart, Back Office and Collateral Management.
• Experience working within regulated financial institutions and formal production change, risk and audit processes.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline.

Candidate Profile

• A principal-level technical specialist who remains hands-on and can independently diagnose and resolve the most complex MX.3 environment issues.
• A leader with demonstrable accountability for production-grade platforms, cross-team delivery and high-risk transformation programmes.
• A professional who can balance architecture, engineering execution, operational resilience and stakeholder management.

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