Senior Specialist, Back-end Developer - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Overview

Job Title:
Senior Specialist, Back-End Developer

Department:
Markets Technology (FX)

Who we are:

For over 235 years, Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) has been at the center of the global financial markets, providing the world's leading institutions the tools, capabilities, and services to be distinctive investors.

BNY Mellon has approximately $16.5billion in revenues and a 23% return on tangible common equity.
BNY Mellon is a leader in the world of investment services and investment management, and our businesses support the full range of stakeholders of the financial system including:

Managing the custody of approximately $37 trillion financial assets of the world's leading institutional investors, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, and corporates
Investing approximately $2 trillion as one of the largest global asset managers across a wide range of asset classes
Providing collateral, liquidity, and funding for the world's largest banks through our markets franchise
Serving family offices and high net worth individuals through our wealth management franchise
Providing a full suite of solutions to advisors, brokerdealers, family offices, hedge and '40 Act fund managers, registered investment advisor firms and wealth managers
Advising large global corporations on a range of trust and other solutions
Providing integrated managed data services to asset managers

What we do:
(team overview)

The FX Overlay technology team is responsible for developing BNY Mellon's Foreign Exchange Overlay (currency hedging) platform. The team is distributed globally with the London team primarily collocated with the business.

We are looking for a software engineer to work closely with the FX Overlay business to continue development on the strategic platform supporting the business growth.

Utilize knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and conduct reviews of the test Plan and test Data
Allocate and coordinate work within a team and project
Analyze, define, and document requirements for data, workflow, and logical processes and interface with other systems
Design and develop backend features and components
Scale the backend architecture and codebase to support growth
Reduce the level of technical debt of the backend codebase
Program welldesigned, testable, and efficient code
Analyze, design, and develop tests and testautomation suites
Develop flowcharts, layouts, and documentation to satisfy requirements and solutions
Maintain software functionality and currency, including technical debt and gain
Participate in code reviews
Integrate software components into a fully functional software system
Execute full lifecycle software development and develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures
Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems
Ensure software is updated with latest features
Participate in deployment process following all change controls
Provide ongoing maintenance, support, and enhancements in existing systems and platforms
Provide recommendations for continuous improvement
Use learning tools such as Pluralsight to complete both recommended and aspirational targets set in personal development plans
Leverage existing products and functionality and promote reuse
Collaborate crossfunctionally with data engineers, business users, project managers, and other engineers to achieve elegant solutions
Compile documentation written by more senior developers of all procedures used in system

Experience & Qualifications:
(requirements for role)

Utilizing knowledge of databases including SQL Server and Oracle for persisting the transactional data and using SQL, Linq to Sql to perform read, write operations on the persisted data;
Utilizing Business Objects, Jasper Reports, XML with XSLT for creating and executing reports which are used by the business to report the regular business activities such as business calculation, Trade details and various Key Performance indicator reportsthereby providing the end users with data to make informed decisions;
Utilizing with DevOps continuous integration;
Working with Agile practices.

Employer Description:

For over 230 years, the people of BNY Mellon have been at the forefront of finance, expanding the financial markets while supporting investors throughout the investment lifecycle.

BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create,trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments and safeguards nearly one-fifth of the world's financial assets.

BNY Mellon remains one of the safest, most trusted and admired companies. Every day our employees make their mark by helpingclients better manage and service their financial assets around the world. Whet