Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is a privately-held financial institution and has been a thought leader and solutions provider for almost 200 years. We serve the most sophisticated individuals and institutions with award-winning expertise in Investment Management, Private Banking, and Investor Services. Our 5,000 colleagues operate from 17 cities throughout North America, Europe and Asia..
BBH is committed to diversity, innovation and globalization. Our culture is driven by our goal to provide the best solutions and services to our clients and each other. Our Partnership structure creates a flat organization that promotes collaboration across all business lines. We believe that diverse ideas and the ability to come together globally across groups and borders are a competitive advantage. In order for all our teams to excel, members must trust each other and feel comfortable providing honest input from all perspectives.
This openness sparks innovation and agility, which adds to the entrepreneurial spirit and provides many more career opportunities for our staff. We are a group of high-performing, dedicated and caring professionals who believe that working together is the foundation for superior client service excellence.
As a BBH professional, your career path is yours to define. We take pride in our ability to retain our best employees. We help them manage their careers by moving top performers to new areas of BBH where their talents will make the greatest contribution. As soon as you walk through the doors at BBH, we provide you with the tools to help you succeed and grow your career.
Responsibilities:
- Provide innovative design solutions for systems initiatives
- Review and develop application code for new and modified programs that meet user requirements and conform to departmental SDLC standards
- Create and execute unit test cases while clearly documenting all test results
- Support business users during user acceptance testing
- Communicate effectively and proactively with business users, vendor, and all systems staff
Analytical skills:
- Must be detail-oriented, able to multi-task and be well organized
- Ability to quickly understand custom processes
- Strong data collection skills using modestly complex SQL (joins, merge, group by, unions, distinct, etc.) and the ability to present and explain the data
- Critically evaluate information and summarize into detailed description of issue(s)
- The individual should be a quicker learner, and able to work independently in a dynamic and fast paced environment.
- Prepare essential documentation to define requirements, test plans, analysis, etc.
Management skills:
- Team player; must be self motivated, have strong analytical skills, plan and manage time effectively, and be customer-focused
- Able to work well with others both in the team as well as with users
- Strong communication skills (both written and verbal)
Technical and development knowledge:
- 5 plus years of solid application development and database design using formal SDLC processes
- Solid experience in the design and development of n-Tier Object Oriented software applications using Java J2EE (JDK 1.5+) and user interface technologies using Java Server Faces (JSF), HTML and JavaScript
- Applied knowledge of basic J2EE Design Patterns
- Experience deploying applications to Websphere or Weblogic application server
- Experience working on unit testing framework like JUnit and other open source frameworks
- Experience developing complex PL/SQL procedures and database triggers
Technical Skills:
- J2EE, RAD 8, Java, Oracle 10, Microsoft Windows Server, Ultra Edit, SQL, PL/SQL, Hyperion, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Sybase; Cognos knowledge is a plus
