Software Engineer - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

of the Business Line or Department

The 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.

Summary of the key purposes of the role

A 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

Summary of responsibilities

Software development

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

Testing

Perform endtoend 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
Plan and execute manual and automated deployments to staging, QA and PROD environments
Lead deployments, develop run books, develop contingency and rollback plans

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 tribe

If 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 selfidentification 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.

Competencies

Technical 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

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