Technical Analyst
Technical analyst/programmer on GoldenSource's OnDemand Managed Services team, implementing and integrating the company's enterprise data management (EDM) software for asset-management clients across full project lifecycles, with client-facing duties and mentoring. Core stack: Java/J2EE app servers (WebLogic/WebSphere/JBoss), Oracle PL/SQL, messaging queues, Unix and cloud platforms.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Melbourne VIC
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Minimum 3+ years IT experience with full IT project lifecycle
- Strong understanding of J2EE concepts
- Java
- Experience with at least one of JBOSS, WebSphere or WebLogic
- Hands-on Java application server configuration, tuning and clustering
- Database/SQL fundamentals and good knowledge of relational databases
- Oracle PL/SQL
- Experience with at least one queuing system (JMS, MQ, Kafka, TIBCO EMS)
- Experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Unix (Linux or Solaris)
- Has worked on both SSO and SAML based applications
- In-depth understanding of Web Services / REST API
- Working understanding of JSON, XML, XSLT, XPATH
- Has integrated a product to third-party systems before
- Good knowledge of ETL tools
- Knowledge of financial industry data models including 3rd form normalized models
- Experience implementing Enterprise Data Management (EDM) software, particularly GoldenSource EDM
- Good customer-facing skills and experience
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Adept at problem solving through innovation and confident decisions under pressure
- Team player with ability to influence and negotiate
Nice to have
- Reference data management domain experience (instrument, party, trade)
- Knowledge of data vendor formats e.g. Bloomberg BackOffice, SIX Financial, Refinitiv Datascope, IDC, Markit
- Asset management data management and data warehousing background
- Experience with GoldenSource software implementations
- Oracle tuning skills
- Experience with build tools like Bitbucket, Bamboo, Jenkins
- Experience with DevOps working practices and tools
- Agile / scrum development techniques
Full description
GoldenSource is looking to expand its OnDemand Managed Services team with Analyst Programmer having specific industry experience within the IT arena having previously worked on projects with client facing exposure. Domain experience in asset management, reference data related IT roles would be particularly welcome.
We would expect the successful candidate to have played a key role in full IT project lifecycles, with particular focus on the implementation aspects of the J2EE architecture, queuing and integration to third party and in house systems.
General Java knowledge is required and in particular skills with Java Application Servers are essential. The applicant must have worked with at least one of the following application servers (WebLogic, WebSphere or JBOSS) and cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, and GCP. Also required is exposure to Oracle RDBMS, Postgres, UNIX/Linux, Hadoop ecosystem and basic queuing concepts (MQ, TIBCO EMS, etc).
Primary Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will work as part of a wider team having primarily technical responsibility throughout a project implementation lifecycle. He/she will need to interface with the client and demonstrate high level of business competency and be adept at leveraging his/her experience to manage client expectations and ensure successful deployment of the GoldenSource software.
The role requires the candidate to work independently, and is collaborative in nature. A key aspect of the role is to provide regular feedback to stakeholders r on the status of assignments deliverables, and for the candidate to provide mentoring to more junior staff members to broaden and improve their GoldenSource configuration techniques
The candidate should be adept at problem solving through innovation, handling new Development requirements and testing, making confident decisions under pressure with aggressive timeframes and have a proven track record on successfully overseeing a number of projects of differing scales.
The candidate will help other team members through knowledge in his/her area of specialization and is generally free to determine work priorities based on general direction from managers.
The candidate will be expected to contribute to pre-sales activities, supporting new business sales campaigns and business development activities for Client relationship activities.
Proven Competencies:
The role requires proven competency in the following areas:
- Project delivery work stream alongside client technical/infrastructure teams to determine and implement solutions that meet their business objectives and timelines.
- Coordinate with client technical staff and analysts to identify technical solutions to meet their objectives. Presenting a pragmatic delivery approach; differentiating between what can be done and what should be done and delivering this message to the Client.