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As the IMM IT BAU Developer / Support Engineer you will join a large, distributed team. Your responsibilities will include, but not only:
- Providing live assistance for the production workflow by investigating / resolving issues once escalated by PTG (involves an early start rota)
- Escalating issues to the infrastructure team if needed
- Escalating issues to the dev team if resolution involves code review / debugging
- Producing reporting emails (e.g. OLA tracker and trade count analysis)
- Reruns of production workflow in case of critical failures
- Ensuring that any production issue is logged, investigated and resolved to limit the chances of it happening again (BAU book of work)
- Ensuring that any analysis / queries from other IT teams or business stakeholders are addressed (e.g. CVA pricer)
- Testing and applying configuration changes
- Making configuration changes as and when required by business stakeholders
- Making changes to the environment to ensure optimal running
- Working with the Quants to make changes to Pricing Rules, Valuation Rules, adding trade types
- Coordinating the release of these items (emergency or planned releases)
- Providing PTG with training / documentation to help them increase the scope of known issues they can cover by themselves or to help them improve the monitoring process
- Developing tools to help automate the BAU activities as well as provide PTG with the tools to help thein in their monitoring (spreadsheets or c# tools to automate manual work)
- Running tests related to performance and regulatory capital impact (Impact Assessment )
- Running tests related to performance (e.g. impact of adding a new counterparty, DMCF updates)
- Configuring, executing and monitoring batch runs during the day
- Using advanced knowledge of the workflow to suggest improvements to optimize performance
Essentials Skills and Qualifications:
- Good communication skills, including the ability to actively listen and interpret
- Written communication skills – clear, understandable and unambiguous documentation and emails are a part of the role
- Good analytic / problem solving skills
- Ability to work under pressure / tight deadlines
- Technical background and understanding of software development life cycle
- SQL knowledge (for reporting queries)
- XML knowledge
Desired Skills and Qualifications:
- At least basic programming skills – mainly C#, will be useful to understand where the changes need to be applied and how to do them (even though it will also come with experience and knowledge of the system)
- Financial / investment banking experience
The IMM (Internal Model Method) program is a multi-phase, multi-year initiative designed to reduce operational costs for the IB. As the IMM IT Developer you will be part of a team of developers working on several mission critical systems, tasked with designing, developing and delivering functionalities specific for EPE and Backtesting projects.
The role is within Risk Technology IT area. The role will require interaction with the front office, credit risk (CRO IT), and product control areas, so communication as well as technical skills are important to succeed. While we will be primarily focused on hiring a development team, candidates with specific experience in Support, QA, and Infrastructure will also be considered. The candidate will be working in the team of about 50 people including developers, BAs, QAs and support personnel. The team is located in Wroclaw, London and New York.
The system is based on the .NET Framework (C#, WWF, WCF), SQL Server and multiple internal technologies.
Overview of the department / team (team size, backgrounds, personalities …):
The project is running for more than 3 years. We are live since September 2015. There is already a BAU team in place with extensive system knowledge.
All of our teams are agile, using a mixture of Scrum/Kanban.
Technologies used:
- .NET Framework, C#, WCF, WWF, WPF
- JIRA
- Confluence
- SVN
- TeamCity
- Ant
- MsBuild