Programming Analyst recruitment

Position Title: Programming Analyst

Working Location: US - New York, NY

Employment Status: Full-Time Regular

Required Experience: 1 year

Required Education: Bachelors Degree

Travel Required: 0

Job ID: 1740

Position Description:
Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, focuses on the development of fixed-income products and services bringing to market a wide range of data, analytical tools and related services, and is the distribution channel for Fitch Ratings content. Fitch Solutions' product offerings include Fitch Ratings' research delivery, risk and performance analytics, surveillance tools, structured finance workflow solutions, and pricing and valuation services. The division's service offerings include Advisory Services, which provide customized consulting to help clients better understand their risk, and Fitch Training, a specialist training firm for financial professionals. Fitch Solutions products and services provide market participants with greater insight into the growing complexity of the credit markets to enable more timely and informed business decisions.

Position Requirements:
The Analyst position involves working in a team environment to analyze and maintain databases. He or she will develop and validate processes to assess data for downstream systems and applications. This position requires continuous involvement and participation with IT and Business Groups across Fitch, as well as others teams within the Global Content Operations organization, to design, build and test software systems or products and the underlying components. This person will take a lead role on projects and may work on multiple projects at a time.

Responsibilities:
• Perform quality control checks of financial data for ongoing projects ; take corrective action if necessary.
• Work with IT and Business and Content groups to ensure the use of unit testing, code reviews, change control, build management, deployment plans, design and data model documentation
• Work with various development and business teams to understand the product requirements and to verify that the data under test meets those
• Create and modify SAS and SQL code to support data movement from source databases to SAS datasets.
• Ensure consistency with existing databases and warehouse
• Review business requests for data and data usage
• Document data specifications describing solutions to achieve information requirements
• Research data sources

Requirements:
• Strong programmer in Java or C++
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (with an excellent GPA preferred)
• Any knowledge of finance is helpful
• Ability to work in a team as well as independently
• Knowledge of databases and SQL
• Excellent communication skills