Role Description
This role has been created to:
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Serve to support the role requirements of senior developers in the Analyst Developer job family.
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Provide a launching pad for transition into more senior roles in the individual contributor and leadership job families.
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Support delivery obligations to customers and internal stakeholders.
Specific Role Responsibilities
Analysis and Design
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Work with the analyst tester in the creation of user story definitions and acceptance criteria. Utilise your knowledge to ensure stories are constructed in a cohesive, logical way that aids smooth implementation and test.
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Work within the constraints of the feature/user story to define the underlying design required to deliver these changes
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Ensure the solution is well defined and fit-for-purpose. It must meet the requirements and work end-to-end. This will require a solid understanding of the underlying business processes involved in and surrounding the change
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Provide solutions and recommendations for the resolution of technical issues that arise and ensure solutions meet the technical specs and design requirements
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Help design and build APIs and external system interfaces for integration into core FNZ products and third-party vendor applications
Development
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Interpret complex financial business requirements and translate into high-transactional, high-availability, secure, working systems
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Lend your expertise to advise and influence the design and implementation of highly intuitive user interface and interactive financial tools required by financial advisers and investors
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Non-functional requirements: Consider non-functional requirements. We produce high-volume, real-time transaction processing systems that support millions of trades every day in investment securities in multiple world markets. You will work with other developers to make sure that solutions developed are secure, reusable, maintainable and performant.
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Collaborate with other developers to make sure that the solutions developed are robust and in-line with the requirements;
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Ensure code is designed and built in a reusable manner.
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Able to build high complexity features end-to-end
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Establish yourself as an expert in multiple system/technical areas of the FNZ platform
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Contribute to global non-client specific projects to advance key technical strategies across FNZ.
Quality
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Adhere to the defined procedures for code management, code reviews, coding standards, naming conventions and security standards
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Write automated unit tests for any newly created code
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Perform manual testing to ensure any changes made to the system are of a high standard and the system hasn’t regressed.
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Perform code reviews for developers on their own and different projects, inside the solution centre, to ensure that proposed changes meet quality and best practice standards.
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Able to design new core system functionality or completely redesign existing ones whilst maintaining quality.
Collaboration and Communication
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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; and
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Collaborate with other developers to share knowledge, best practices, useful technology, and opportunities for cross-project system design / solutions.
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Mentor new starters to ensure they understand both platform and SDLC.
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Provide solution centre-wide training, as required, on topics of personal expertise.
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Support the project lead developer and function as a squad lead if required.
Technology
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Stay up to date with industry practices, new technologies, tools and methods. Proactive evaluate and provide recommendations to the business on technologies and tools which could be adopted.
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Take ownership of and resolve technical (environmental, coding and testing) issues that impede development progress. Assist in the resolution of technical issues when requested.
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Create novel solutions to problems by incorporating cutting edge technology or generic concepts.
Functional Area Responsibilities
Analyst Developers at FNZ are all-rounders who can work across the full stack. This role involves working with complex business requirements in a wide range of functional areas in the financial services and platform domain. You are also responsible for collaborating with internal and client SMEs to deliver complex data mapping solutions for migrations: analyzing, designing and maintaining ETL workflows, resolving issues, testing and providing post-implementation support.
You are in expert in multiple technical areas and make your mark as a business domain expert as well. This is evidenced in your delivery track record and your ability to execute your individual responsibilities and to provide your expertise and support to colleagues when needed.
Analyst Developers own non-functional requirements and are responsible for ensuring that their code complies with coding standards, is secure and performs well. At entry-level, you are responsible for learning best-practice in these areas from your senior peers.
Experience required
Primary requirements
First class bachelors degree or higher and/or equivalent experience.
Experience of working on large scale technology delivery projects and successfully delivering technology change as part of these projects.
Confident, and able to take a lead role in a delivery-focused environment.
Experience of working with different levels of stakeholders within a project environment.
Independent, self-directing working style.
Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic fast-paced industry;.
Enjoy working as part of a high-performance team.
Hard-working, innovative and takes pride in their work.
Passionate about creating innovative solutions for customers.
Secondary requirements
Expert in Microsoft .NET development products, including .NET, C# and SQL Server.
Expert in web development, including ASP.NET, JavaScript and ReactJS.
Experience with the following legacy development products would be beneficial: ASP.NET MVC, VB.NET, legacy .NET Framework versions.
Familiarity with financial products and markets.
Understanding of web services.
Familiar with code analysis or automated testing tools.
About FNZ Culture
Our culture is what drives us. It's at the heart of who we are and everything we do. It's what inspires, excites and moves us forward. Our ambition is to create a culture for growth, one that opens up limitless opportunities for our employees, customers and the wider world. At FNZ we know that great impact is only possible with great teamwork.
That’s why we value the strength and diversity of thought in our global team.
The FNZ Way is the cornerstone of what we do. It is comprised of four values that set the standard for how everyone at FNZ interacts with each other, with our customers, and with all our diverse stakeholders around the world.
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Customer obsessed for the long-term
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Think big and make an impact
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Act now and own it all the way
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Challenge, commit and win together
Read more about The FNZ Way and our values: www.fnz.com/culture
Opportunities
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Right from day one, you will work alongside exceptional, multicultural teams - experts in their respective fields - who will inspire and challenge you to make your greatest impact.
- Be part of a highly successful, rapidly growing, global business that is leading the delivery of financial services via cloud computing and partners with some of the world’s largest companies;
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Working in a flexible and agile way that meets the needs of the business and personal circumstances;
- Remuneration, significant financial rewards and career advancement is based on individual contribution and business impact rather than tenure or seniority;
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We provide global career opportunities for our best employees at any of our offices in the UK, EU, US, Canada, South Africa and APAC.
Commitment to Equal Opportunities
At FNZ, we recognise that diversity, equity and inclusion are important factors contributing to our success. We embrace the unique perspective and capabilities of our current and future employees, which will help us continue to drive innovation and achieve our business goals. Recruitment decisions at FNZ are made in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to gender, ethnicity/race, faith, age, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, socio-economic background, disability or military veteran status where all applicants and employees are valued and respected.
In addition, we want to ensure accessibility needs are well supported, if you require specific support please advise us.
About FNZ
FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back.
We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution.
We partner with the world’s leading financial institutions, with over US$2.5 trillion in assets on platform (AoP).
Together with our clients, we empower nearly 30 million people across all wealth segments to invest in their future.
