Senior Software Developer

Roles & Responsibilities

Project Description:Our client is the corporate and investment banking arm of The Group, world's 12th largest bank by total assets.

We work daily with international branches located in 30 markets by:

- Envisioning and preparing the Bank's futures information systems

- Partnering and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large scale development projects.

- Providing premium In-house Banking applications,

This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market.

We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges.

The department is responsible for development and maintenance of Risk and Finance applications used by worldwide users covering Market Risk, Counterparty Risk, Finance domain. The applications are in-house developemnts with a mix of Mirosoft and open source technologies.

Recent years have seen unprecedented evolution to the technical infrastructure available to answer still more challenging regulation. The open position is to join one major investment project to answer to FRTB regulation. To be ready to tackle the regulatory requirement, the Market Risk Information System platform is being redesign to be global and adaptable enabling automated reporting and real-time processing and monitoring. The Market risk data Intelligence project will transform the Market Risk application landscape as it was known to bring it to the next level.

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical study into a propose solution, while involving expertise from infrastructure big data expert, business analyst requirement

• Document proposed design and develop the solution

• Implicitly ensure all CI-CD artefacts are part of the solution

• Perform code review while fostering knowledge and coaching best practices to team members

• Interact and provide reporting to project managers

• Monitor technical risk and escalate appropriately to management

• Research, design, and develop software.

• Analyse user needs and develop software solutions

• Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures.

• Work with other engineers to integrate hardware and/or software systems

• The position requires autonomy and reliability in performing duties with initiatives and leadership when it comes to all non-functional deliverables such as testing tools, mocking objects, production monitoring concerns, quality control including performance and load testing.

Mandatory Skills Description:

• At least a Bachelor's degree in any of these faculties: Computer Science / Information Technology / Programming & Systems Analysis / Science (Computer Studies)

• 5+ years in Software development

• 3+ years in Java/J2EE development

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both team mates and management

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

• Proficient software development life cycle

• Appetite to follow technology trend and participate to communities

• Passion for sharing expertise and grow team members' skills

• Interest in mentoring and guiding junior team members on the path of high quality deliverables.

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• Hands on Data ingest and data processing technology like Spark streaming and Spark

• Hands on Messaging systems like Kafka, Flume or ActiveMQ, MQSeries or RabitMQ

• Hands on knowledge on Hadoop (preferably Hortonworks distribution) - HDFS, HBase, Hive, ORC/Parquet.

• Build tool - Maven/sbt/ant, UML, Restful web services, Jenkins/Team City, Source management – SVN/GIT, TDD using Junit, Jira/QC.

• Solution design using proven patterns, awareness of anti-patterns, performance tuning, especially in streaming

• Knowledge of tools like Phoenix, ElasticSearch, Sqoop, StreamSets are good to have.

• Basic understanding of finance and investment banking

Tell employers what skills you have

UML
Mentoring
Web Services
Autonomy
Hardware
Agile
Application Development
JavaScript
ActiveMQ
Information Technology
JUnit
Systems Analysis
Core Java
Software Testing
Performance Tuning
Angular
Research Design
J2EE
Software Development

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