Software Engineer – Emerging Markets recruitment
UBS can offer you an environment geared towards performance, attractive career opportunities, and an open corporate culture that values and rewards the contribution of every individual.
Description:
The successful candidate for this role will provide strong technical delivery capability within the regional strategic development team, delivering a suite of applications and services to support the back-office processing of securities products in Asia Pacific. They will be responsible for detailed design and development of key application components leveraging XML database and relational database technologies as well as integration frameworks across multiple solutions within the APAC back office space.
They will bring strong technical development capabilities to the team having a demonstrable track record of delivering high quality IT solutions. The ideal candidate will have several years experience in developing data warehouse solutions and will be able to work across both the technical domain and also integrate and communicate well with users, testers and other stakeholders in the IT and business teams.
The candidate will be an innovative self-starter, with strong technical skills and a keen drive for technical excellence. They will need to be a great team player who not only leads by example, but demonstrates a capacity and willingness to take on new and challenging roles within the team as required by this dynamic programme.
Working as part of a multi-skilled programme team, the individual will need to be comfortable working with ambiguity and be able to propose options and deliver solutions in a technically advanced and complex application space. The programme delivery follows a well defined SCRUM model, so experience working in this manner is highly desirable.
Requirements:
- MSc or BSc Computer Science
- Fluency in English with excellent communication skills
- Mnimum 10 years practical back office experience in investment banks
- Expertise in XML databases (Marklogic preferred)
- Expertise in XQuery and XPath
- Strong SQL and relational database experience (Oracle preferred)
- Be comfortable working on a global codebase
- Writing unit tests, and ensuring full test coverage of requirements
- Technical excellence – demonstrate a high degree of quality orientation and drive ongoing quality improvement within the team.
- Development – hands-on technical role, must be able to lead by example delivering solutions as a part of the team. Able to adapt to using different technologies / programming languages as required for the job.
- Delivery – responsibility for successful delivery and helping the team create an environment that combines ongoing innovation, teamwork and delivery focus.
- Analysis Design – driving out a clear understanding of stakeholders’ requirements in an ambiguous environment and the ability to leverage the wider team to define a solution that fulfils these requirements within the constraints of the environment.
- Quality – self-learning and sharing knowledge with other members of the team – challenging and improving the status quo.
- Production Support – ensuring releases are co-ordinated and the risks are mitigated. Provision of clear hand-over and support to the run-the-bank support teams.
- Documentation –appropriate level of technical design support documentation within an agile environment.
- Architecture – ensure compliance with the regional and global Chief Technology Office strategy and input into the ongoing evolution of the banks regional IT footprint.
- Business Knowledge - ensuring continued knowledge of best practice in Investment Banking development
It starts with you:
We can offer you an exciting, fast-paced working environment, a culture of mutual respect and teamwork and the opportunity to play a vital role in our growth. If you are attracted to joining an organization where every individual's contribution counts and where your talent will impact on our future, please apply for this position. It starts with you.
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