Technology Analyst - Java Engineer, AVP

Technology Management is responsible for improving the technological aspects of operations to reduce infrastructure costs, improve functional performance and help deliver Divisional business goals. To achieve this, organization needs to be engineering focused. Looking for technologists who demonstrate a passion to build the right thing in the right way.

Work includes:

• Partnering with key internal stakeholders to translate bank strategy into objectives and plans for implementation supporting the delivery of world class technology solutions
• Take care of computer operations and production support, systems and database administration, network operations, and client service
• Ensuring systems performance and service level requirements are met Transferring business requirements into technical solutions or into Release Management

Your key responsibilities

• Part of a global team, forging strong relationships with geographically diverse teams / colleagues and business to formulate and execute technology strategy.
• Focus of the individual must be on ensuring that we remain an engineering focused organization. We are looking for technologists who demonstrate a passion to think out of the box.
• Work with application platform supporting a wide variety of Alternatives funds and businesses globally.
• Work with technical specialists to develop in house solutions and support existing applications.
• Coordinate application life cycle, including access management, security, disaster recovery, day-to-day support, and business workflow management.
• Perform data analysis, identify data quality issues, and develop strategies for data cleansing and transformation.
• Design innovative, sustainable solutions which are congruent with the strategic direction of the Bank.
• Challenge the status quo and influences key stakeholders to ensure industrys best practice is adhered to within their area of expertise.
• Ensure knowledge articles and documentation are up to date.
• Be responsible for IT Governance in line with company policies and regulations.

Your skills and experience

• 10-12 years of Hand on experience with Core Java, Spring/Spring Boot
• Good hands-on experience with Hibernate/JPA
• Good hands-on experience with JMS/Kafka/MQ
• Good hands-on experience with REST API
• Good understanding of Microservice architecture
• Expertise with relational databases like Oracle PL/ SQL
• Experience with software development lifecycle (e.g. Agile, Waterfall)
• Experience with any of the public cloud like GCP / Azure / AWS (Good to have)
• Experience with application migration from On-Prem / Private cloud to public cloud will be a plus (Good to have)
• Experience in a business aligned IT department of a financial institution
• Effective learning, problem-solving, decision-making capability
• Exposure to and inclination towards developing knowledge on AI / ML and Generative AI to identify, analyze and implement potential use cases (Good to have)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Self-starter, proactive and excellent team player with ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment and always with professionalism. Ability to be open minded, learn new technologies on the job, share information, transfer knowledge.
• Enterprise technology knowledge and experience (e.g., application/data migration, architecture, infrastructure, data transfer methods (SFTP), application and database technologies) Good to have
• Good understanding of risk frameworks, control environments and application governance (Good to have)

Skills and Experience That Will Help You Excel

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in Computer Science or Software Engineering (or equivalent)
• Familiarity with Finance and specifically Asset Management industry, Alternative investments
• Positive attitude and a team player
• Proactive and ability to work independently
• Open to learn, adapt and solution with new technologies
• Defines and implements best practices, solutions and standards related to their area of expertise.