Developer (Securities Financing) at RMB - Rand Merchant Bank

Job Description

• The Securities Financing Developer is responsible for software development, maintenance, testing and production support for applications within the Securities Financing team.
• This is a great opportunity to join Global Markets Technology and become an important and valued team player in designing and implementing industry-leading services, whilst giving you key experience and exposure to build your career and personal brand.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Analysis and solution development

• Collaborate with Analysts and the Business to understand the requirement
• Work with developers to design and develop solutions accordingly.
• Develop scalable reliable and high-performance applications
• Collaborate within the team to determine the tasks required to deliver the solution
• Assist in architecting and developing new solutions using vendor-based technology
• Provide continuous feedback and input to other stakeholders
• Act speedily to resolve problems, queries, and complaints
• Ensures solutions are maintainable by the team

Service Excellence 

• Collaborate with internal technical team/users in the resolution of critical production incidents
• Collaborate with vendors when neccessary on suitable short- and long-term solutions for incidents and new requirements
• Suggest changes in executing work processes to better drive value and benefits for the business.

Effective stakeholder relationship management

• Build and maintain professional working relationships with all stakeholders, displaying excellent abilities to initiate dialogue, listen, advise, influence and negotiate to achieve win-win outcomes.
• Initiate meetings with key stakeholders to track progress, manage expectations and ensure stakeholders’ requirements are delivered
• Build relationships despite arising conflicting views and seeks mutual gains when addressing conflicts
• Anticipates consequences and adapts problem solving based on continuous feedback
• Continually seek opportunities to increase internal client satisfaction and manage expectations effectively

Self-management and teamwork

• Plan and manage own workflow, anticipating obstacles, juggling priorities and following through on objectives within agreed time-frames and according to quality standards
• Research, consult and make recommendations on programming and optimization best practices Take ownership of personal career development, leveraging formal and informal opportunities
• Act in an ethical, transparent and morally defensible manner
• Adapt communication styles to meet the needs of different audiences
• Continually share, debate and communicate learning’s, also flag and debate issues constructively to ensure the best outcome for business stakeholders and altimately the bank
• Contribute to a friendly, co-operative climate in working with others to achieve collective goals
• Document and drive knowledge sharing session with the technical team members

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND KNOWLEDGE 

Required Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related discipline or similar qualifications

Strong functional knowledge of:

• Experience with J2EE application servers, Spring, Ant, Maven, Apache Tomcat, Java, JEE, JBoss
• Frontend technologies: HTML, XML, JSON, JSP, .Net
• JAVA development & related toolsets such as MAVEN
• Webservices (SOAP/HTTP and REST)
• Design Patterns (MVC, etc.)
• J2EE application/Web server (tomcat, etc.)
• Databases MS SQL, Sybase (Aqua Data Studio, SSMS)
• Integration (e.g. TIBCO, Informatica)
• Scheduling (e.g. Control-M)
• CICD: (TeamCity, GIT, Jenkins, Springboot)
• Development practices and Software Development Lifecycle exposure
• Agile Methodology (eg. Jira)
• Wiki

Optional but advantage:

• Microsoft SSRS, SSIS, PowerBI
• C#
• Geneva, GCMS, SLAMS, Xceptor

Experience:

• At least 5+ years of experience delivering technical solutions requiring custom development ideally within a Banking or Markets environment
• Engaging with business to understand requirements