An Application Developer will estimate, analyse, design, code, test and implement low-level development tasks in order to provide software solutions that enable an application or suite of applications to meet a defined business or technical need. An Application Developer is also expected to support Testing in remediation of code related defects and Release Management in support of code deployment activities.
Application developers typically work as part of a feature team working on one or more initiatives at any given time, and are expected to pro-actively communicate progress, undertake reviews, raise technical risks and issues and work collaboratively with other developers to enable resolution. All escalations are expected to be directed to the team lead assigned to the project.
Application developers have an in-depth understanding of one or more technology languages/ platforms and approved tool kits and development environments; as well as adhere to modern Agile Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies within regular sprint cycles.
You’ll be joining an exciting, dynamic and supportive team in Global Markets Operations Technology, using modern software development tools and practices, giving you access to ongoing training and opportunities for career development in our Bromley office.
There are numerous applications managed in region that are utilised across EMEA, APAC and AMRS for numerous lines of business throughout Global Markets, Prime Brokerage, Global Custody and Derivatives/FX.
This is an exciting role focused on application development using some of the market leading technologies such as Scala, RDF, Sparql, Big Data, Apache Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Shark, Spark etc. We use Agile methodology for all the development.
The team are accountable for the end-to-end delivery of technology solutions which are:
-Implemented across platforms managed within the EMEA region and utilized globally across EMEA, APAC and AMRS.
- Supporting the regional business both across platforms managed within region as well as managed by other technology partners across the globe
As an application developer, your main responsibilities will involve:
• Working in team environments made up of both local and remote (virtual) teammates
• Participate in each development cycle to work on the detailed (low level) design, impact assessment, coding and testing of technical solution to meet a documented set of requirements before pushing changes to Production
• Escalate to team lead where further clarity needed on design and where risks and/or issues highlighted during development cycle
• Code low level tasks according to Bank and Industry standards and best practice
• Provide regular updates to team and team lead to evidence progress against plan for assigned deliverables
• Develop and maintain new and existing tests within the departments testing framework and practices
• Actively participate in required meeting routines