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We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub.\nWant to know why we are a great place to work, click on the link to learn more.\nwww.asx.com.au/about/careers/a-great-place-to-work\nWe are more than a securities exchange!\nThe ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines.\nWe run critical market infrastructure, with 1 in 3 people employed within technology. Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance.\nWe’re proud to foster a workplace where diversity is celebrated and inclusion is part of our everyday culture. Our employee-led networks champion LGBTIQ+ inclusion, promote gender equality, accessibility and wellbeing, inspire giving and volunteering, and celebrate cultural and religious events, creating a sense of belonging for all. As an AWEI Bronze employer and member of the Champions of Change Coalition for gender equality, we’re committed to a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.\nKey purpose of the role:\nThe Application Support Lead is responsible for the operational leadership, support, stability, resilience, security, and continuous improvement of ASX's SWIFT messaging and payments ecosystem, including SWIFT Alliance Access (SAA), SWIFT Alliance Gateway (SAG), SWIFTNet connectivity, HSM infrastructure, PKI certificates, and associated market-facing integrations.\nThe role provides technical leadership across SWIFT and financial messaging services, ensuring production services meet availability, performance, cyber security, regulatory, and operational resilience obligations. The Application Support Lead acts as the senior technical escalation point for messaging incidents, payment-processing issues, connectivity outages, certificate management, releases, and service improvement initiatives.\nThe role partners closely with application development, infrastructure, network, cyber security, architecture, cloud, operations, SWIFT, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure critical messaging and settlement services remain secure, reliable, resilient, and fit for purpose.\nThis role includes rostered 24x7 on-call support and participation in planned weekend activities, major incidents, SWIFT upgrades, infrastructure changes, releases, disaster recovery exercises, and operational resilience testing.\nYour responsibilities\nTechnical Leadership\nProvide technical leadership and subject matter expertise across SWIFT Alliance Access (SAA), SWIFT Alliance Gateway (SAG), SWIFTNet services, financial messaging, and supporting technologies.\n\nAct as the senior escalation point for complex SWIFT incidents, message-processing failures, connectivity outages, security events, and technical risk assessments.\n\nLead end-to-end troubleshooting across applications, SAA/SAG, HSM and PKI services, databases, middleware, networks, operating systems, AWS services, and external interfaces.\n\nDrive root cause analysis and ensure permanent corrective actions are identified, prioritised, and implemented.\n\nCoach Application Support Analysts to build SWIFT, AWS, service management, and operational support capability.\n\nEstablish and maintain support standards, operational procedures, knowledge articles, recovery instructions, and support runbooks for SWIFT services.\n\nApplication Support\nLead support activities for SAA, SAG, SWIFTNet connectivity, HSM infrastructure, certificate services, messaging interfaces, and associated financial market systems.\n\nEnsure availability, performance, resilience, recoverability, security, and operational readiness across production, disaster recovery, and non-production environments.\n\nMonitor SWIFT message flows, queues, delivery status, system health, capacity, certificate expiry, connectivity, and operational risk indicators.\n\nDrive proactive service improvements through automation, AWS and application observability, monitoring enhancements, alert tuning, and process optimisation.\n\nCoordinate disaster recovery, business continuity, SWIFT resilience, and recovery validation activities, including evidence capture and remediation of findings.\n\nEnsure operational acceptance criteria are met for new and changed SWIFT, AWS, and integrated services before production implementation.\n\nIncident, Problem & Risk Management\nLead major incident response and coordinate restoration for business-critical SWIFT, messaging, payments, and settlement service disruptions.\n\nManage clear and timely stakeholder communications during incidents, including engagement with SWIFT and third-party service providers where required.\n\nFacilitate post-incident reviews, complete root cause analysis, and ensure corrective and preventive actions are delivered.\n\nIdentify operational, technical, cloud, and cyber security risks and drive remediation activities.\n\nSupport audit, compliance, regulatory, and SWIFT Customer Security Programme activities affecting critical messaging services.\n\nEnsure known errors, recurring messaging failures, certificate risks, and operational control gaps are tracked and managed effectively.\n\nProject Delivery\nLead planning, testing, implementation, and early-life support for SWIFT software upgrades, security patches, infrastructure changes, AWS releases, and certificate renewals.\n\nReview changes to ensure appropriate risk assessment, testing evidence, implementation steps, rollback plans, security review, and operational readiness.\n\nCoordinate deployments across application, infrastructure, network, cyber security, cloud, operations, SWIFT, and vendor teams.\n\nEnsure solution designs incorporate supportability, monitoring, logging, security, resilience, backup, recovery, and operational requirements.\n\nDrive the controlled transition of SWIFT and AWS-enabled services into BAU support.\n\nYour experience and qualifications\nMust have\n10+ years of experience in Application Support, Production Support, Site Reliability Engineering, Messaging Infrastructure Support, or Technology Operations, supported by a degree or equivalent qualification in IT, Computing, Engineering, Science, or Mathematics.\n\nDemonstrated experience supporting business-critical, high-availability financial messaging, payments, settlement, or market infrastructure services.\n\nStrong hands-on experience supporting SWIFT Alliance Access (SAA), SWIFT Alliance Gateway (SAG), SWIFTNet services, message routing, and associated interfaces.\n\nStrong understanding of SWIFT FIN, FileAct and InterAct services, MT and ISO 20022 messages, message lifecycle, acknowledgements, queues, routing, reconciliation, and recovery.\n\nExperience supporting SWIFT security components and controls, including PKI certificates, HSM technologies, cryptographic key management, access controls, and certificate lifecycle management.\n\nStrong AWS application support experience across EC2, RDS, VPC, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, IAM, Secrets Manager, KMS, S3, AWS Backup, and multi-Availability Zone architectures.\n\nProven ability to troubleshoot hybrid and distributed services across AWS, networks, operating systems, middleware, databases, application layers, and external integrations.\n\nDemonstrated experience leading major incident resolution, root cause investigations, service restoration, and problem management in high-pressure, regulated environments.\n\nStrong understanding of disaster recovery, operational resilience, cyber security, backup and recovery, capacity management, and service continuity planning.\n\nExperience planning and implementing complex SWIFT releases, security patches, certificate renewals, cloud changes, and technology upgrades.\n\nProven ability to mentor support analysts, provide technical leadership, and uplift team capability across SWIFT and cloud operations.\n\nStrong stakeholder and vendor management skills, with the ability to engage effectively with business, operations, infrastructure, network, cyber security, cloud, architecture, SWIFT, and service providers.\n\nExperience working within ITIL-based service management frameworks and willingness to participate in an on-call roster and lead critical out-of-hours activities.\n\nNice to have\nSWIFT Certified Administrator accreditation or equivalent hands-on experience administering SAA, SAG, Alliance Web Platform, or related SWIFT services.\n\nExperience supporting SWIFT Customer Security Programme controls, security assessments, audit evidence, and remediation activities.\n\nExperience with Thales, 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We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the criteria of this role.\nIf you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self, please let us know at .\nAt ASX Group, our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. 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