IT Developer

Utmost International; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company in the UK is seeking a software developer to maintain front-end applications and back-end databases. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in successful project delivery, experience in financial services, and skills in technologies such as Cobol, C#, SQL, and PostgreSQL. Responsibilities include collaborating with business analysts, ensuring security compliance, and providing application support.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of delivering successful projects on time and within budget.
• Experience within financial services, preferably life and pensions, desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain front-end applications and back-end databases.
• Collaborate with business analysts to understand requirements.
• Develop software solutions for new projects and existing applications.
• Ensure applications meet security and data protection requirements.
• Maintain appropriate technical documentation.
• Conduct and oversee unit, system, and regression testing.
• Provide application support and expertise.

Skills

Adaptability

Analytical critical thinking

Communication

Teamwork

Tools

Cobol

PostgreSQL

C

C#

SQL

Visual Studio

Python

Java

Git

Papyrus Software

Perl

XML

.NET

SQL Server inc. SSIS & SSRS

Smalltalk

Job description

• Development and maintenance of front-end applications and back-end databases within ULP’s Windows and Linux hosted environments, ensuring that IT solutions are high quality, efficient, and secure and that they align with the strategic application architecture.
• Collaborate with business analysts and business users to gain full understanding of the business requirements.
• Develop software solutions for new projects and updates to existing applications.
• Ensure applications meet security and data protection requirements.
• Produce and maintain appropriate technical documentation.
• Participate in peer reviews of designs and code as required.
• Conduct and oversee unit, system and regression testing.
• Support user acceptance test and implementation of solutions.
• Make recommendations to improve operation or stability.
• Provide 3rd line application support expertise.
• Provide application support to overnight batch runs as required.
• Perform roles and activities to meet department needs, as required, including 3rd line support and callout if required.
• Develop a working knowledge of all applications developed and supported within the department; effectively cross-skill within team to ensure resilience.
• Ad hoc tasks as required
• Comply with the FCA’s conduct (and senior conduct) and Consumer Duty rules and the PRA’s conduct (and senior manager conduct) standards as set out.
• Notify the Regulators of any regulatory matters reasonably expected to be notified.

Core Competencies

• Adaptability with a keen aptitude both for learning new technologies and adapting to changing project requirements.
• System analysis, including ability to further your own knowledge of any given system.
• Sound understanding of change management principles and processes.
• Ability to work with partial business requirements and expand to full solutions.
• Logical and physical solution design, when required.
• Security conscious coding, debugging, diagnostics and metrics.
• Data management (data relationships determination, data modelling, database good practices).
• Strong analytical critical thinking skills to solve complex technical problems independently.
• Commitment to technical quality, coupled with pragmatism.
• Good communication and teamwork skills to work effectively with other team members.

Experience and Qualifications

• Proven track record of delivering successful projects on time and within budget.
• Experience within financial services, preferably life and pensions, desirable.

Technical skills

• Cobol
• PostgreSQL
• C
• C#
• SQL
• SQL Server inc. SSIS & SSRS
• Papyrus Software
• Perl
• XML
• .NET
• Java
• Smalltalk
• Visual Studio
• Git
• Python