Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will provide a strong contribution to the development and support of real-time quoting applications within D&EL IT. The role encompasses: 

• Implement functionality changes and bug fixes for real-time quoting applications which is JAVA based. 
• Analysis of problems and issues in the application to identify areas for improvement 
• Provide second line support to global user community (primary base will be Europe users)  The successful candidate is expected to work under minimal supervision to design and implement the required functionality/bug fixes/enhancements within allotted timescales. 

Other aspects to this role: 

• The successful applicant will have a strong focus on delivery to the business 
• The successful candidate must have strong communication skills 
• The candidate must have a proven experience of quickly learning new technologies, systems 
• Must be able to accurately and pragmatically estimate development effort required for specific objectives. 
• The successful candidate must be able to quickly absorb new terminology and business requirements 
• Good mathematical skills are desirable in order to be able to read and understand some of the existing documentation and code (basic calculus will be sufficient in most cases). 

Skills Required:

Requirements (mandatory): 

• Developing in Java: 2+ years; 
• Core Java, JDBC 
• Readiness to participate in support and resolve 1-st level support and maintenance tasks, participate in automation of system support tasks. 
• Problem solving skills 
• Pro-active team worker; 
• Good communication skills. 

Optional: 

• PL/SQL 
• Working with external clients (desirable) - Work to requirements within agreed timelines in an independent manner; 
• Perl/Python/scripting language 
• Understanding of financial services, investment banking, derivatives is advantage 
• C++ unix