Want to work at the forefront of a fast-growing and award winning FinTech company?  With an incredible team and partners looking for innovative results, we’re rapidly growing and continue to add new asset classes to our offerings. We are on the lookout for smart and collaborative talent to join our team. As a cloud-based company, we are currently operating in a flexible and hybrid work model.  

Job Description
The IT Digital Workplace Lead will be responsible for managing and upgrading existing systems and recommending and implementing new systems to support SIMON’s workplace environment for users in the office and working remotely.  The role requires hands-on experience running and maintaining a cloud-based workplace environment involving Macs, Windows, Office365, AWS Workspaces, Okta, Jamf and Zscaler, among other tools.  Selected candidate will work with the Head of Infrastructure to establish an internal IT management team supporting workplace infrastructure across departments. This role will also require providing leadership, mentorship, and supervision to the team of internal IT personnel and managed service providers to support the SIMON digital workplace environment. 

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related IT discipline
• 10-15 years’ hands-on experience running and maintaining a workplace environment involving laptops with Macs OS and VM running Windows OS or Linux OS systems
• Strong understanding of Office365 Administration (MS suite of tools, including email), Okta IdP, Slack, networks, telephony and video equipment
• Experience working in a cloud first environment
• Good understanding of MDM, Data Protection, Backup/Recovery and IT Security
• Knack for identifying potential problems and inefficiencies within the IT space while proactively planning and executing remediation
• Experience working with managed service providers in the IT space
• Strong communication skills, customer focus and ability to communicate across a broad user base
• Ability to prioritize and deliver projects on time

Preferred Qualifications

• ITIL, MSCE, ACSP certifications desirable

We offer a competitive salary and benefits, the chance to work with a curated team of top-notch, highly creative talent, and a fun and agile work environment with many perks in New York City’s Hudson Yards district, but are operating remotely through at least summer 2021. 

About SIMON
SIMON Markets is an award-winning fintech company that is committed to transforming the digital experience for financial professionals, enabling them to better serve their clients. SIMON’s intelligent and innovative platform delivers an end-to-end digital suite of tools to over 100,000 financial professionals, who serve $5 trillion in client assets, empowering them with on-demand education, an intuitive marketplace, real-time analytics, and lifecycle management.

With a focus on reshaping the advisor experience, SIMON is setting new industry standards, simplifying the complex, and delivering structured investment, annuity, and defined outcome ETF solutions to investment professionals, centralized within one unique ecosystem.

Originally incubated within Goldman Sachs, SIMON launched as an independently operating company in December 2018 under the shared ownership and direction of seven leading financial institutions—Barclays, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, Prudential, and Wells Fargo. Growth equity firm WestCap became an investor in 2021. The company is headquartered in New York, NY, with an additional location in Birmingham, AL.

No matter which part of the team you join, there is something interesting to work on. Our front-end team is building out our web and mobile presence using React, Redux, and Webpack along with some very sophisticated data visualizations. Our back-end team is using Scala, Akka, Postgres and other open-source technologies to build a micro-services architecture that can scale to handle our ambitious roadmap. Our quantitative engineering team is researching and building novel financial strategies to widen our competitive advantage. Our dev-ops team is creating a development and production environment with Docker and Kubernetes to keep us nimble. Product Management sits in the middle of it all to make it happen.