System Analyst - Asset Management Firm

• One of the World's Largest Investment Management Firm
• System Development and Enhancement

About Our Client

We are one of the world's largest investment management companies, with around 300 low-cost traditional funds and ETFs, operating in 20 locations worldwide with about 15,000 crew members.

This role will work on leading technologies within a Microservice architecture, with the development stack including Java 8, Spring Framework, Amazon Web Services (including AWS Analytics), Atlassian toolsets (Bamboo, BitBucket), Cucumber automated testing and Tableau. The team is Agile based and operates leveraging a continuous delivery pipeline. Current projects include re-platforming the Market Infrastructure Regulation reporting from legacy datawarehouse processing to Java/AWS, and building a regulatory Transactional Reporting Hub using AWS Analytics and Tableau.

Job Description

• Develops, mentors and provides guidance, training and motivation as necessary; monitors completion of each person's deliverables (e.g., business system analyst, functional requirements).
• Mentors and develops technical crew at lower grade levels
• Provides expert level IT technical lead services and direction for critical software, middleware, and/or hardware projects (e.g., applications, networks, communications, and client server technologies) on multiple platforms
• Provides technical expertise in systems, technical infrastructure, tools, modeling, external interfaces, and other technical areas
• Completes complex development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities. Ensures the viability of IT deliverables. Recommends development options, including design, build/buy, and vendor purchase
• Approves the team's technical deliverables
• Conducts testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security. Identifies potential solutions, including the cost/benefit of each option
• Approves technical solutions proposed by team members
• Elevates complex technical issues to IT experts, including architects and vendors
• Resolves technical problems discovered by testers and internal clients
• Responds to and resolves technical issues in a timely manner
• Researches issues and performs root cause analysis
• Communicates with project manager on a frequent basis
• Provides realistic task and cost estimates
• Maintains current knowledge of IT development methodology, architecture design, and technical standards.
• Mentors IT staff and identifies training needs. As new standards are instituted, ensures their usage by team members. Communicates with other technical leads, IT groups, and clients so they understand the project's technical implications, dependencies, and potential conflicts
• Evaluates the impacts of change requests on own/shared technologies and effectively persuades and influences others on ideas
• Reviews and approves documentation and diagrams created by IT team members (e.g., system specifications)
• Writes documentation, including technical standards and processes
• Identifies opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies.
• Participates in design, code, and test inspections throughout product life cycle to identify issues
• Participates as a technical consultant at other project meetings
• Presents technical status and issues at milestone reviews

The Successful Applicant

• Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience
• Possessed at least 4 years' experience in technical specialty. For development technical leads, includes 3 years' developer experience
• Strong knowledge of Java 8, Spring Patterns, Micro Service Patterns and testing methodologies
• Appreciation of Asset Management current industry trends
• Experience working with relational databases and managing large data volumes
• Experience in an Agile processes and the full dev ops lifecycle including CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Atlassian toolset,(Jira, Bamboo, BitBucket,)
• Financial Industry experience preferred ( Buy / Sell ) side, particularly familiarity with European Regulations
• Any of the below technologies will be seen as an advantage:
• Experience of Micro Services Architecture specifically within the context of AWS
• Experience in No SQL database technology eg DynamoDB
• Experience using Tableau and data analytics on top of a data hub in AWS
• Experience with AWS technology such as Amazon Simple Storage Service, lambda, dynamoDB, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon Elastic MapReduce
• Experience with Python, Selenium
• Experience using Maven, GIT, Junit, Cucumber

What's on Offer

We offer competitive remuneration package and comprehensive fringe benefits including medical and life insurance, excellent learning & development opportunities and flexibility to the right candidate.

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