Engineer, Software Engineering

Grade Level (for internal use):

• The Team:The team is responsible for building software products in a key strategic platform using emerging tools and technologies
• The team works in a significant environment that gives ample opportunities to use creative ideas to take on complex software problems
• You will have the opportunity every single day to work with people from a wide variety of backgrounds and will be able to develop a close team dynamic with coworkers from around the globe
• What are we looking at:The role offers extensive business and technical challenges in a highly dynamic and collaborative work environment
• A passion for quality and a sense of pride in your work are an absolute must for the role
• The business domain (Corporate Actions & Custody) is highly complex, and knowledge of the business domain is a necessity for the role
• The role offers the right candidate opportunities to take ownership of components within the system

Whats in it for you:

• Build a career with a global company
• Work on code that fuels the global financial markets
• Grow and improve your skills by working on enterprise level products and new technologies

Responsibilities:

• Complete ownership of the design and the implementation (estimation, breakdown of tasks) for complex business functional specifications through the full software development lifecycle
• Complete ownership of maintenance and support issues as they come up during the project lifecycle pre and post go-live
• Provide technical assistance to other teams support, QA, business analysis
• Ability to work with remote team in a geographically distributed development model
• Evaluate, apply & lead adoption of new technologies and tools within the IM Development team and across the organisation to provide productivity, efficiency and scalability benefits
• Collaborate and share technical and business knowledge to all members of the Development and wider IM organisation
• Agent of constant improvement within development and across the company

Educational Qualification:

• BE degree in an IT/ Computer Science or related course is a prerequisite (Experience 3+ years)Commercial awareness
• Strong inter-personal skills required
• Ability to multitask and prioritize work

Personal competencies

• Proficiency in at least one of the J2EE - Application Servers listed below Weblogic, IBM Websphere, JBoss / Tomcat with proven excellence in Java
• Proficiency in one of the Messaging Systems listed below: JMS, MQ, Tibco
• Intermediate level proficiency in Oracle - (PL/SQL)Working knowledge with IOC container / Spring, Spring MVC, Spring JDBC & ORM like Hibernate Expertise with monitoring tools like Data Dog, Splunk, Dynatrace etc
• Understanding of Java Memory Management and GC tuning
• Good experience of working with Spring Batches and their performance tuning
• Deep diagnosis skills & experience working with legacy code, thread dump analysis & Code profiling tools
• Good knowledge of refactoring techniques is an added advantage
• Understands and applies J2EE design patterns, GoF, GRASP, Visitor, Observer and other design patterns
• Tooling/Testing Expertise in Unit testing using JUNIT, TestNG, Cactus or mock objects Expertise in GIT, branching, code management Demonstrates ability to use an IDE and mentor others in the use of an IDE
• Understands fundamentals of JVM memory management, Experience working with Continuous Integration tools ProcessesoAgile development methodology such as SCRUM, XPo Test Driven Development & Continuous Integration Communication Proven communication skills, problem-solving skills, and knowledge of development best practices are critical to successful performance in this role Teamwork Ability to collaborate in a team environment
• Experience in Agile development methodology is preferred