Application Development

Chennai, India

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Date live: Oct. 11, 2022

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Technology

Reference Code: 90280722

Contract: Permanent/Regular

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Job Title: Application Development
Location: Chennai

To develop, enhance and support Fixed Income finance data solution, Repo Trade Execution, Trade Capture and other Front Office applications like XGEN.

What will you be doing?

•   Take ownership of the deliverables of each iteration, ensuring the scope of the project/deliverables is well understood.
•   Effectively visualize and design complex systems; good command over the relevant design patterns and concepts covering failover and resiliency.
•   Development and support of new growth iniatives in FIF world especially in data solution
•   Perform code reviews to ensure implemented functionality matches expectations and is in line with coding standards defined globally.
•   Co-ordination with the QA team and the larger IT group in delivery of implemented features to production.
•   Interaction with front office users, product owners, leads for requirements/support.
•   Assistance in the investigation and troubleshooting of production issues. Play an active role in mentoring/coaching/training and development of team members.
•   Improve processes and software in a continuous feedback cycle. Contribute on CI/CD pipeline to bring more automation on day to day activities
•   Be open to learn new/legacy business functions and also open to learn and adopt new technologies where ever the project demands

What we’re looking for:

•   Good level of education –Bachelors degree in Computers or IT is desirable.
•   Must have strong skills in Core Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Microservices, Object Oriented Analysis and Design Concepts, Design principles and patterns, Big data technologies (Hadoop, HDFS, SPARK, YARN, ZooKeeper, NoSQL database knowledge), Application Integration frameworks like Apache Camel, Kafka, Cloud technologies, CI/CD technologies (Openshift, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Teamcity, Nolio etc),
•   Sound knowledge in handling complex use cases especially in dealing with large volume of data and should be good in fine tuning the application in case of any performance bottlenecks. Person should have worked both in RDBMS (Oracle/SQL Server) and NoSQL databases like HBase, MongoDB, Elastic search etc.,
•   Good Communication skills and ability to learn/build knowledge and mentor the team in a short period

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Prior knowledge in data warehousing is preferred
• Good to have Python with front end end technologies like Angular, Typescript etc.,

Where will you be working?

• Chennai

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