Analyst Developer

Role Description

This role has been created to:

• Serve the needs of junior and intermediate developers in the Analyst Developer job family.
• Provide developers with a basis for developing the business, technical and professional skills required to be an effective developer at FNZ.
• Provide a launching pad for transition into Senior Analyst Developer roles.
• Support delivery obligations to customers and internal stakeholders.

Analysis Design

• Collaborate with analyst tester and developer colleagues to create user story definitions and acceptance criteria.
• Work within the constraints of the feature/user story to define the underlying detail of required changes.
• Collaborate with analyst testers and solution consultants to ensure the solution well-defined and fit-for-purpose. It must meet end-to-end requirements are work well. This requires learning underlying business processes and understanding the technical environment in which you are operating. Provide solutions and recommendations for the resolution of technical issues that arise and ensure solutions meet the technical specs and design requirements;
• Be a part of designing APIs and external system interfaces for integration into core FNZ products and third-party vendor applications.

Development

• Interpret complex financial business requirements and translate into high-transactional, high-availability, secure, working systems
• Design and build the highly intuitive user interface and interactive financial tools required by financial advisers and investors.
• Non-functional requirements: Consider non-functional requirements. We produce high-volume, real-time transaction processing systems that support millions of trades every day in investment securities in multiple world markets. You will work with other developers to make sure that solutions developed are secure, reusable, maintainable and performant.
• Collaborate with other developers to make sure that the solutions developed are robust and in-line with the requirements.
• Ensure code is designed and built in a reusable manner.
• Able to build medium complexity features end-end.
• Continually develop an understanding of the business functionality of FNZ platforms

Quality

• Participate in code reviews to gain feedback on your technique from senior peers and to give advice to junior peers. Review senior developers code to enhance your skills and knowledge.
• Write automated unit tests for any newly created code; and
• Perform manual testing to ensure any changes made to the system are of a high standard and the system hasn t regressed. Collaboration / Communication
• Engage in the collaboration and communication channels in the organisation. Participate in solution design to ensure that creative solutions and tough problems solved are called out appropriately to the developer community, and where they lead to visible outcomes, to the broader FNZ teams and clients.
• Collaborate with other developers to share knowledge, best practices, useful technology, and opportunities for cross-project system design / solutions.
• Mentor new starters to ensure they understand both platform and SDLC.
• Deliver knowledge-sharing sessions on topics of your personal expertise.

Technology

• Stay up to date with industry practices, new technologies, tools and methods and suggestion adoption that are best suited to FNZ.
• Proactively resolve technical (environmental, coding and testing) issues that impede development progress. Assist in the resolution of technical issues when requested.
• Create novel solutions to problems by incorporating cutting edge technology or generic concepts.

Functional Area Responsibilities

Analyst Developers at FNZ are all-rounders who can work across the full stack. This role involves working with complex business requirements in a wide range of functional areas in the financial services and platform domain. In this role, you are responsible for continued learning both in the FNZ business domain and your technical skills as a professional software engineer. You achieve this growth through hands-on work, training and interaction with your senior colleagues. Analyst Developers own non-functional requirements and are responsible for ensuring that their code complies with coding standards, is secure and performs well. At entry-level, you are responsible for learning best-practice in these areas from your senior peers.

Experience required

• Bachelor s degree or higher (min A- average for under-graduate, first class for post-graduate);
• Confident, and able to take initiative in a delivery-focused environment;
• Independent, self-directed working style;
• Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic fast-paced industry;
• Enjoy working as part of a high-performance team;
• Hard-working, innovative and takes pride in their work; and
• Passionate about creating innovative solutions for customers.

• Some experience with one or many programming languages;
• Experience with the following modern and legacy development products and frameworks: Microsoft .NET, C#/VB.NET, ASP.NET, MVC, WebAPI and SQL Server, Javascript, ReactJS, jQuery.
• Experience with web development
• Familiarity with financial products and markets
• Understanding of web services and enterprise integration patterns.
• Familiar with tools for code analysis and automated testing

About FNZ Culture

Our culture is what drives us. Its at the heart of who we are and everything we do. Its what inspires, excites and moves us forward. Our ambition is to create a culture for growth, one that opens up limitless opportunities for our employees, customers and the wider world. At FNZ we know that great impact is only possible with great teamwork. That s why we value the strength and diversity of thought in our global team.

The FNZ Way is the cornerstone of what we do. It is comprised of four values that set the standard for how everyone at FNZ interacts with each other, with our customers, and with all our diverse stakeholders around the world.

1. Customer obsessed for the long-term

2. Think big and make an impact

3. Act now and own it all the way

4. Challenge, commit and win together

Read more about The FNZ Way and our values: www.fnz.com/culture

Opportunities

• Right from day one, you will work alongside exceptional, multicultural teams - experts in their respective fields - who will inspire and challenge you to make your greatest impact.
• Be part of a highly successful, rapidly growing, global business that is leading the delivery of financial services via cloud computing and partners with some of the world s largest companies;
• Working in a flexible and agile way that meets the needs of the business and personal circumstances;
• Remuneration, significant financial rewards and career advancement is based on individual contribution and business impact rather than tenure or seniority;
• We provide global career opportunities for our best employees at any of our offices in the UK, EU, US, Canada, South Africa and APAC.

Commitment to Equal Opportunities

At FNZ, we recognise that diversity, equity and inclusion are important factors contributing to our success. We embrace the unique perspective and capabilities of our current and future employees, which will help us continue to drive innovation and achieve our business goals. Recruitment decisions at FNZ are made in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to gender, ethnicity/race, faith, age, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, socio-economic background, disability or military veteran status where all applicants and employees are valued and respected. In addition, we want to ensure accessibility needs are well supported, if you require specific support please advise us.

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back.

We created wealth s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution.

We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).

Together with our customers, we help over 20 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.