Analyst Developer at FNZ Group

Role Description

This role has been created to:

• Serve the needs of junior and intermediate developers in the Analyst Developer job family.
• Provide developers with a basis for developing the business, technical and professional skills required to be an effective developer at FNZ. 
• Provide a launching pad for transition into Senior Analyst Developer roles.
• Support delivery obligations to customers and internal stakeholders.

Analysis & Design

• Collaborate with analyst tester and developer colleagues to create user story definitions and acceptance criteria.
• Work within the constraints of the feature/user story to define the underlying detail of required changes.
• Collaborate with analyst testers and solution consultants to ensure the solution well-defined and fit-for-purpose. It must meet end-to-end requirements are work well. This requires learning underlying business processes and understanding the technical environment in which you are operating. Provide solutions and recommendations for the resolution of technical issues that arise and ensure solutions meet the technical specs and design requirements;
• Be a part of designing APIs and external system interfaces for integration into core FNZ products and third-party vendor applications.

Development

• Interpret complex financial business requirements and translate into high-transactional, high-availability, secure, working systems
• Design and build the highly intuitive user interface and interactive financial tools required by financial advisers and investors.
• Non-functional requirements: Consider non-functional requirements. We produce high-volume, real-time transaction processing systems that support millions of trades every day in investment securities in multiple world markets. You will work with other developers to make sure that solutions developed are secure, reusable, maintainable and performant.
• Collaborate with other developers to make sure that the solutions developed are robust and in-line with the requirements.
• Ensure code is designed and built in a reusable manner.
• Able to build medium complexity features end-end.
• Continually develop an understanding of the business functionality of FNZ platforms

Quality

• Participate in code reviews to gain feedback on your technique from senior peers and to give advice to junior peers. Review senior developers' code to enhance your skills and knowledge.
• Write automated unit tests for any newly created code; and
• Perform manual testing to ensure any changes made to the system are of a high standard and the system hasn’t regressed. Collaboration / Communication
• Engage in the collaboration and communication channels in the organisation. Participate in solution design to ensure that creative solutions and tough problems solved are called out appropriately to the developer community, and where they lead to visible outcomes, to the broader FNZ teams and clients.
• Collaborate with other developers to share knowledge, best practices, useful technology, and opportunities for cross-project system design / solutions.
• Mentor new starters to ensure they understand both platform and SDLC.
• Deliver knowledge-sharing sessions on topics of your personal expertise.

Technology

• Stay up to date with industry practices, new technologies, tools and methods and suggestion adoption that are best suited to FNZ.
• Proactively resolve technical (environmental, coding and testing) issues that impede development progress. Assist in the resolution of technical issues when requested.
• Create novel solutions to problems by incorporating cutting edge technology or generic concepts.

Functional Area Responsibilities

• Analyst Developers at FNZ are all-rounders who can work across the full stack.
• This role involves working with complex business requirements in a wide range of functional areas in the financial services and platform domain. In this role, you are responsible for continued learning both in the FNZ business domain and your technical skills as a professional software engineer.
• You achieve this growth through hands-on work, training and interaction with your senior colleagues. Analyst Developers own non-functional requirements and are responsible for ensuring that their code complies with coding standards, is secure and performs well. At entry-level, you are responsible for learning best-practice in these areas from your senior peers.

Experience required

Primary requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (min A- average for under-graduate, first class for post-graduate); 
• Confident, and able to take initiative in a delivery-focused environment;
• Independent, self-directed working style;
• Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic fast-paced industry;
• Enjoy working as part of a high-performance team;
• Hard-working, innovative and takes pride in their work; and
• Passionate about creating innovative solutions for customers. 

Secondary requirements 

• Some experience with one or many programming languages;
• Experience with the following modern and legacy development products and frameworks: Microsoft .NET, C#/VB.NET, ASP.NET, MVC, WebAPI and SQL Server, Javascript, ReactJS, jQuery. 
• Experience with web development
• Familiarity with financial products and markets
• Understanding of web services and enterprise integration patterns. 
• Familiar with tools for code analysis and automated testing