Senior Application Developer

Job Description

My Client a large global financial services brand is looking for an experienced Senior Application Developer.As a Senior Application Developer, you will be responsible for defining and developing exciting effective business and systems solutions as well as leading ongoing support for existing ones. You will be an integral member of the Enterprise Technology Team,working closely with business partners, vendors, IT Product Owners, other Business Analysts, and IT Developers to ensure full delivery of the product lifecycle.Duties and Responsibilities

• Partner with the product owner and delivery team in an agile environment where we interact directly with business partners to establish requirements for and develop new solutions and enhance and maintain existing ones.
• Research, design, develop, test, debug, document and support custom .NET applications in support of investment business needs.
• Deliver to aggressive product release schedules working as a cooperative team member in an agile development environment.
• Produce technical specifications and release notes for required features and architectural/framework improvements.
• Client focused, committed to excellence, strong attention to detail and a team player.
• Provide ongoing change management including training and documentation updates
• Collaborate closely with the wider technology teams to coordinate interdependencies and resolve issues and understand overlaps of teams and applications
• Use ETL data skills to help download and maintain the financial data we use
• Turn our data into outstanding reports and dashboards used by our business partners
• Carry out additional duties as assigned

Desired Skills and Background

1. Software skills that include Microsoft .Net, C#, object-oriented programming, SQL, and HTML are essential. Below are additional skills that we use that ideally you have or could acquire if needed:
   • The Microsoft technology stack. Specifically: C#, ASP.NET Core APIs, WPF, SQL Server, Entity Framework, Microsoft Office, Visual Studio; an understanding of how this technology stack is transitioning to .NET 6/7
   • Cloud platform exposure (preferably Microsoft Azure) and concepts such as App Services, App Registrations, Azure SQL, security with Azure AD and MS Graph; deploying to an Azure cloud environment through YAML pipelines
   • UI / client development skills including MVVM
   • Mobile app development, particularly Xamarin Forms and transitioning to .NET MAUI
   • Data and ETL skills, including SQL, SQL Server, Databricks, and Snowflake
   • Potentially other development platforms such as python, Power BI, other data analytics
2. An understanding of Agile delivery methodologies for technology solutions
3. Knowledge of the asset management business, preferably in distribution and marketing
4. Experience of working in a development team and collaborating with IT and business partners to build out requirements for innovative solutions
5. An enthusiasm for software development and acquiring new skills & knowledge, both in the tech and investments arenas
6. An exposure to collaboration tools such as Git / source control, Jira, Confluence and Teams.

As part of the Enterprise Distribution team, you would be exposed to a world of knowledge in new and advancing technologies. You would work with a high performing team that looks after all the distribution technology products data integration and processes.This team thrives on innovation and is on the leading edge of technology and very close to all the business processes. We have developed numerous distribution and MDM based applications, numerous cloud data models and back-end processes that perform analyticsand calculations used by the business.