Who We Are: Brown Brothers Harriman is a privately-held financial institution that has been a thought leader and solutions provider for almost 200 years. While 'standard banks' offer retail services to millions of individuals, such as savings accounts and mortgages; BBH serves the most sophisticated individuals and institutions with expertise in Private Banking, Investment Management, and Investor Services. Our cross functional, global teams provide our clients with leading insight and expertise throughout our 17 locations around the world. Since 2012, our Krakow location has been a growing business center with a global reach, delivering excellence in operations, client service and technology.
Why BBH? Over the years, we have been fortunate to forge relationships with companies, institutions, families and individuals who appreciate our integrity, perspective, sense of partnership and long-term perspective. The loyalty we earn from our clients comes from two things: the quality of our people and the culture of our firm. We attract and invest in the best people in the industry, rewarding teamwork, innovation and above all, client satisfaction. As a BBH professional, your career path is yours to define. We hire bright, self-starters, educate them on our client‘s needs, provide the framework and tools to succeed—then give them the freedom to excel. We take pride in our ability to retain our best employees by giving them constant opportunities to learn new skills, work across different disciplines and move into new challenges. Most importantly, we encourage you to be yourself and have fun.
The Programmer/Analyst Specialist produces, writes, and revises code that supports the business needs of BBH. The position is responsible for small applications and/or portions of more complex systems. S/he develops and executes test plans as well as analyzes the impact of change on system interfaces.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze and classify change requests, identifying and documenting scope of change and impact on other interfaces.
- Participate in walk-through which reviews program specs, source code, all technical supporting documentation, including screens/reports: provide feedback in accordance with department standards and guidelines.
- Conduct research as required.
- Produce code for new and modified programs that meet user requirements and conform to departmental standards regarding documentation and structure that is reliable and easy to maintain.
- Enhance / customize vendor application modules as per BBH need.
- Develop unit test plans that will thoroughly exercise program logic to ensure program/application performance with regard to business requirements.
- Execute unit test plans, document test results and resolve discrepancies as deemed appropriate.
- Assist in coordination of performance testing.
- Suggest enhancements to current standards.
- Develop system test plans that will thoroughly exercise program logic to ensure program/application performance with regard to business requirements and system integration.
- Develop detailed specifications for the creation of new or modified programs, including the recommendation of logical designs, record/report layouts and screen designs.
Knoledge, skills and abilities
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, and/or equivalent work experience.
- 0 to 2 years application development experience.
- Problem solving and analytical skills.
- Exposure to Java (WebSphere) or .NET
- Exposure to databases (Oracle/MSSQL/DB2)
- Knowledge of Linux, Unix, Windows, LAN Systems
- Nice to have experience in finance industry (ARCHER, TLM Smartstream utilities)
- Nice to have exposure to Mainframe technologies (COBOL, MVS 370 OS utilities, including ISPF, JCL, VSAM)
