Senior Software Developer (COBOL)

The Role

You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software applications to ensure successful delivery of assigned projects (custom or product strategy) and change requests.

SSD will be responsible for strategic design and mapping of business requirements and solutions into system/technical requirements as well as recommending best practices for solutions based on client business needs.

SSD will also be responsible for writing technical specifications (for custom development, system integration, etc.) based on requirements directly from the customers and/or Business Analysts. These specifications will need to be precise and clear as the SSD will be collaborating with cross-functional teams such as technical lead, off-shore developers, testers and production support team.

During project execution, SSD will support the Project Manager to initiate the project(s), contribute and support the project team with technical expertise to ensure successful delivery. SSD will be fully responsible for managing Domain level artifacts aligning to project methodology.

Client and service oriented, the Senior Software Developer monitors within a project the quality of the technical deliverables.

Involve early in the project to perform workshops to capture client requirements and to follow project / product roadmap.

Author Product Design and Technical Specifications and support Business Analysts during initial analysis, solution proposal and cost estimation

Perform development estimations and impact analysis for functional stories as well as change requests

Conduct project risk identification and mitigation action planning with the project manager

Collaborate with Project Leads, Business Analysts and broader IT team to resolve issues and ensuring solutions are viable and consistent

Provide technical guidance to off-shore application development team

Develop medium to complex applications and ensure the product matches the technical specifications

Perform various tests to ensure deliverable is working as expected (Unitary test, Integration test, System test)

Provide support to clients in the user acceptance testing phase (enquiries, execute batch jobs in the simulation environment, resolve errors, etc.)

Professional Skills

Knowledge of Private Banking and Wealth Management mainly on banking products such as Credit and Risk Systems.

Sound knowledge & experience in latest development methodologies including Agile, DevOps

Strong programming skills and well experienced in developing, designing, coding, testing and debugging

Institutionalise and drive knowledge management processes across the product space

Technical expertise: S2i Application, COBOL, DB2, GIT, GITLAB, SPLUNK, SQL, DBeaver, Eclipse. APIs & Digital Banking is a plus.

Transversal Skills

Excellent interpersonal and customer-oriented skills

Ability to work effectively under pressure and frequently changing priorities

Strong analytical skills, organized, process driven and detail-oriented

Problem solving and facilitation skills

Committed team player and positive winning attitude

Other requirements

Bachelors or higher degree in Engineering preferably in Computer Science/IT

Experience in a banking environment is imperative, ideally Private Banking or Wealth Management.

10+ years of software development experience with a proven track record working with distributed delivery teams across geographies

Knowledge of Credit and Risk

S2i Application, COBOL, DB2, GIT, GITLAB, SPLUNK, DBeaver, Eclipse