Job Description

Story Behind the Need:

• Business group: Global Wealth Management Technology - Support advisor technologies/platforms mainly trading and portfolio management of Wealth clients
• The Lead Developer is responsible for building and supporting Global Wealth Management Systems, including trading system, fee management and reporting system.
• Project: This person will work on two or more initiatives. Enabling additional features for wealth advisors. Including: tailored portfolio solutions, Investment book of records and Investment proposals.

Candidate Value Proposition:

• The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on a global initiative and have exposure to international stakeholders (not only specific to the Canadian market) such as LATAM; help design a platform that supports over 16 million users in a major financial institution so is high visibility.

Typical Day in Role:

• Lead technical decisioning for the scrum teams, collaborating with solutions architects and other technical leads.
• Develop coding standards and testing approaches.
• Collaborate with delivery lead to plan milestones, successfully execute software delivery, and escalate issues as needed.
• Design and develop micro services based on Cloud solutions, such as Microsoft Azure, Google GCP
• Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications
• Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution
• Assure quality security and compliance requirements are met for supported area
• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment
• Working experience in performance analysis and tuning
• Provides production support for applications maintained

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 10+ years of hands-on programming experience in application development using Java frameworks with a proven experience of deep understanding of Object-Oriented techniques
• Knowledge and development practices in SOAP or Restful web service protocols.
• Unix / Linux knowledge and strong shell scripting skills.
• Database experience required: Oracle, MySQL; Strong SQL knowledge and skilled in PL/SQL.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Agile and DevOps experience is an asset.
• Experience in wealth applications/trading systems is an asset.
• Technical certification or business certification is an asset.
• Design Patterns, familiarity with multiple external Java frameworks is an asset.
• Understands functional aspects and technical behavior of the underlying operating system, development environment, and deployment practices.
• Proficiency in business analysis requirements, technical analysis and design requirements.
• Highly experienced in working knowledge with one or more Wealth Management systems such as trading system, fee management, and reporting system.
• Solid hands-on development and support experience to lead solution development to complex technical problems across technology teams.
• Solid analytical, problem solving, and trouble shooting skills in order to develop and support systems to meet user requirements.
• Be creative and flexible in identifying technical solutions to resolve business problems in a rapidly changing, demanding and complex business environment.

Soft skills:

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Effective communication skills to translate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• A demonstrated team player with strong communication skills and a proven track record of successful product development delivery.
• Proven ability to partner with BAs to translate business needs into technical PAM/IAM solutions.
• Prove documentation skills

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering, or related field or relevant experience.

Best VS. Average Candidate:

• The best candidate is someone expert on Java and Unix.

Candidate Review & Selection:

• 1st - Hiring manager - Online - 30 Mins - scenario-based questions on how they will design and configure. General experience.
• 2nd - 3 panelists- In person - 60 mins - probing questions on business requirements, what information will you need to design XYZ

Please note:

• AI is not used to screen, assess, or select candidates.
• This role reflects an existing vacancy at the time of posting.

Job Details
14070
Contract
9.5 months
Toronto
Recruiter
Komal
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