Software Engineer

Job Description

Description of the Business Line or DepartmentThe aim of our Service Unit (GBSU) is to deliver day-to-day services to GBIS Business Units and their clients to accelerate the transformation. GBSU is organised under the following structure:

• A transversal client group
• Eight service and product orientated entities
• A transversal data entity
• Seven centres of expertise

Within each of these groups are dedicated Information Technology (IT) teams who are aligned with the mandate of the Support Unit groups.The aim of the IT teams of GBIS is to translate ideas into action by combining the strength of expertise in IT with a deep understanding of investment banking.IT works to ensure that it delivers the services the businesses need to compete and to serve Socit Gnrales clients. The objective is to deliver production services in a well-controlled and cost-effective way, and to deliver competitive application systemsand infrastructure that allow GBIS to grow its business in existing and new markets, launch new products and take advantage of new opportunities when they arise.Summary of the key purposes of the roleA Software Engineer delivers features for a Product in a business chain. As member of a Feature Team, he/ she works in autonomy and with a continuous improvement approach

• Support deconstruction of customer requests into detailed stories by interacting with the Product Owner
• Responsible for delivering working code that meets acceptance criteria as well as meets the definition of done at different levels
• Responsibilities include, deployment scripts, unit tests, monitoring delivery pipeline activity, to ensure product quality and consistency
• Participate in testing, deployment, and production activities of the team to ensure production stability, applying the guidelines provided by the chapters

Summary of responsibilitiesSoftware development

• Research to determine if solutions currently exist within or outside the business unit

Testing

• Perform end-to-end testing by defining test scenarios, documenting defects, and ensuring that the product aligns to the target visions before it used operationally by the business

Deployment

• Facilitate and coordinate software deployments to environments (aka Release Mgt)
• Assist in drafting release notes
• Develop Release Scripts and manage tools used for releases
• Verifies that entry criteria for each release candidate is fulfilled prior to deployment
• Plan and execute manual and automated deployments to staging, QA and PROD environments
• Lead deployments, develop run books, develop contingency and rollback plans
• Execute deployments to environments, while in parallel supporting ongoing application development

Production support

• Supports inquiries, issues, and major events to identify root cause and resolution
• Ensures Support processes and practices given by the Support Chapters are applied by the team

As Part of Tribe Governance- Participate to Technical Architecture Leagues of his/her Unit- Participate to Technical chapter of his/her tribeIf a member of an Architecture League (business or technical)If they belong to an Architecture League, then they share, with their Business Line Technical Architect (BLTA) and other Business Analysts (BA), the responsibility of the definition and implementation of the IS strategy of their area. They are also in chargeof consistency within their IT unit as well as alignment with the overall GBIS IS.If a member of a chapter:Ensure the Feature Team is aligned with chapters related guidelines and practices (e.g. if member of Production Support Chapter, he/she ensures other team members follows Production Support processes and best practices given by the chapter).Conduct Responsibilities

• Responsibility to adhere to internal Policies that relate to you, your business or other businesses for which you have any level of responsibility. It is your responsibility to ensure compliance with operational and conduct risk requirements (e.g. dataleakage, security policies and regulatory requirements).
• Adhere to individual and where applicable department conduct rules in accordance with the FCA and PRA Code of Conduct rules
• Responsibility for managing, controlling, preparing and escalating risk within the scope of your position and in line with existing policies.
• Responsibility to ensure that you take reasonable steps to be fully aware of, understand and comply with all regulatory requirements from all regulatory and statutory bodies, trading venues, etc that are applicable to your role and business line.
• To assist in the self-identification of all conduct related issues. Ensure escalation to appropriate stakeholder or function whether internal or external.
• Adhere to business line mandates relevant to the role as directed by your manager

Other

• This description is intended to outline the main responsibilities for the role and is not an exhaustive list, responsibilities may vary from time to time as directed by your manager.

CompetenciesTechnical skills:One or more of the following technical domain knowledge and related skills set.BACK-END:

• Domains: Intermediation API. Business API, Data Modelling, Functional knowledge, Server &Hosting
• Skills: AS400, RPG, Java/Net/Python developer, API Maker, OPS affinity

FRONT-END:

• Domains: User experience, User Interface, Intermediation API
• Skills: JS && TS Developer, Angular/React/Vue developer, UX affinity

DEVOPS:

• Domains: Global
• Skills: OPS Developer, Python, Script, PowerShell, Jenkins, TeamCity, Sonar

DATA:

• Domains: Business API, Data modelling, functional knowledge, Server and Hosting
• Skills: Java/Python developer, Hadoop Lover

FUNCTIONAL:

• Domains: Intermediation API, Business API, Data modelling, functional knowledge
• Skills: Listed Operational Components