Analyst Developer .Net at Progressive Edge

Responsibilities:

Analysis and Design

• Assist the Analyst Tester in the creation of user story definitions and acceptance criteria.
• Work within the constraints of the feature/user story to define the underlying design required to deliver these changes.
• Ensure the solution is well defined and fit-for-purpose. It must meet the requirements and work end-to-end. This will require a solid understanding of the underlying business processes involved in and surrounding the change.
• Provide solutions and recommendations for the resolution of technical issues that arise and ensure solutions meet the technical specs and design requirements.
• Help design and build APIs and external system interfaces for integration into core company 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.
• Develop real-time transaction processing systems that support millions of trades every day in investment securities in multiple world markets.
• Work closely with our Solution Consultants and Analyst Testers to design and implement new functionality for our major institutional customers around the world.
• 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 company platforms.

Quality

• Adhere to the defined procedures for code management, code reviews, coding standards, naming conventions and security standards.
• Write automated unit tests for any newly created code.
• Perform manual testing to ensure any changes made to the system are of a high standard and the system hasnt regressed.
• Perform code reviews for other developers, when required, to ensure that proposed changes meet quality and best practice standards.

Collaboration / Communication

• 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.
• Provide solution centre-wide training, as required, on topics of personal expertise.

Technology

• Keep abreast of latest and/or relevant technologies, tools and methods. Identify adoption of technology, tools and methods best suited to the company.
• Proactively resolve technical (environmental, coding and testing) issues that impede development progress.
• Assist in the resolution of technical issues when requested by other developers.
• Create novel solutions to problems by incorporating cutting edge technology or generic concepts.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree or higher
• Experience with Microsoft .NET development products, including .NET, C# and SQL Server;
• Experience with web development, including ASP.NET, JavaScript and ReactJS;
• Experience with the following legacy development products would be beneficial: ASP.NET MVC, VB.NET, legacy .NET Framework versions.
• Familiarity with Financial products and markets is beneficial.
• Understanding of web services.
• Familiar with code analysis or automated testing tools.

Other essential requirements:

• Confidence and able to take initiative in a delivery-focused environment.
• Independence, self-directing 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.
• Passionate about creating innovative solutions for customers.
• Some experience with one or more programming languages;
• Participated in end-end deliveries of software products.