C++ / .NET Analyst Developer / Application Support – Financial Services (Brussels) recruitment

My client is looking for someone astute, hands on and delivery oriented.

The successful candidate will benefit from the support of a very motivated team composed of Senior Analyst Developers and Technical Domain Owners.

The job is larger than a usual analyst - Developer role:

-The team members participate in the verification of the requirements; then to the analysis and the implementation of the solution.

-They also take care of the integration, the customisation (non functional requirement) and testing of the framework - the testing of the final solution (Business Application) is done by another team.

-The candidate will support the Development, Test and Production environments. The latter involves participating in Watch Duty (second to third line support) for a maximum of 1 week every 4 weeks, each person in the team is "on call" overnight.

-The candidate should also be service-minded and have good communication skills.

-Working as part of a small agile team, the person will be adept at quickly understanding the problems and opportunities presented, be able to devise innovative solutions, produce specifications and technical designs and then see the designs through into well engineered software.

As Senior Development Analyst your key responsibilities will include:

- Working with our Technical Domain Owner and other business application developer to devise most suitable solutions

- Produce system specification and documentation

- Produce software design, development and testing

Support application:

-Handling queries, bug fixing, work package delivery

- Produce source code - help setup, contribute and maintain a centralized software code, components, and tools for reuse across other projects / frameworks.

- Industry knowledge : be proactive in acquiring industry specific knowledge as applicable to domain. E.g. read industry press, cross-learn from colleagues

- Research and development - keeping abreast of latest technologies and suggesting how they can be exploited for our domain.
 

Essential Skills:

- Experience working in Agile (Scrum) and iterative mode MS .NET Programming .NET 4.0 Framework: WCF, LINQ, WIF

-Visual Studio 2005 2010 Development experience of C++ on Windows, Linux and AIX Knowledge of cross-platform porting and platform architecture (Windows UNIX) Design patterns, Multithreading, Tuning and optimisation Performance, Scalability, Resilience programming expertise WebSphere MQ IIS 7, Asp.net knowledge in MIME, XML standards

-Documentation - strong document writer (class diagram, User guide, Intervention guide, Development guidelines…) English, French, Dutch

Desirable Skills:

-Security programming expertise Lean methodology UML VMWare Test tools (HP Quality Center) unit test development Atlasian Web application development Modelling Experience with Rational ClearCase and GIT Good knowledge in HTTP, AS/2, SOAP protocols Apache development Knowledge of OO programming and design concepts