Analyst Developer

Responsibilities

• Analysis & Design
• Assist the analyst tester in the creation of user story definitions and acceptance criteria.
• Work within the constraints of the feature/user story to define the underlying design required to deliver these changes.
• Ensure the solution is well defined and fit-for-purpose. It must meet the requirements and work end-to-end.
• Provide solutions and recommendations for the resolution of technical issues that arise and ensure solutions meet the technical specs and design requirements.
• Help design and build APIs and external system interfaces for integration into core FNZ products and third-party vendor applications.
• Development
• Interpret complex financial business requirements and translate into high-transactional, high-availability, secure, working systems.
• Design and build the highly intuitive user interface and interactive financial tools required by financial advisers and investors.
• Develop real-time transaction processing systems that support millions of trades every day in investment securities in multiple world markets.
• Work closely with our Solution Consultants and Analyst Testers to design and implement new functionality for our major institutional customers around the world.
• Collaborate with other developers to make sure that the solutions developed are robust and in-line with the requirements.
• Ensure code is designed and built in a reusable manner.
• Able to build medium complexity features end-to-end.
• Continually develop an understanding of the business functionality of FNZ platforms.
• Adhere to the defined procedures for code management, code reviews, coding standards, naming conventions and security standards.
• Write automated unit tests for any newly created code.
• Perform manual testing to ensure any changes made to the system are of a high standard and the system hasn't regressed.
• Perform code reviews for other developers, when required, to ensure that proposed changes meet quality and best practice standards.
• Collaboration / Communication
• Promote the development team both internally and externally. Ensure that creative solutions, tight code, tough problems solved are called out appropriately to the developer community, and where they lead to visible outcomes, to the broader FNZ teams and clients.
• Collaborate with other developers to share knowledge, best practices, useful technology, and opportunities for cross-project system design / solutions.
• Mentor new starters to ensure they understand both platform and SDLC.
• Provide solution centre-wide training, as required, on topics of personal expertise.
• Technology
• Keep abreast of latest and/or relevant technologies, tools and methods. Identify adoption of technology, tools and methods best suited to FNZ.
• Proactively resolve technical (environmental, coding and testing) issues that impede development progress. Assist in the resolution of technical issues when requested by other developers.
• Create novel solutions to problems by incorporating cutting edge technology or generic concepts.