Senior Software Engineer

Role Overview:

The focus of this role will be the development of new capabilities and re-platforming of the Risk application.

The successful candidate will be a seasoned technologist tasked with building a strategic platform as part of the transformation programme to enable new/develop existing capabilities in the Risk Management space.

This is senior level developer role to lead best practice within a newly formed agile delivery team and in collaboration with Risk and Technology colleagues based in London will ultimately drive engineering deliverables that are underpinning a multi-year Risk Transformation roadmap.

Role Responsibilities:

• Work with the business analysts and users to elicit and understand functional and non-functional requirements in order to design and deliver software solutions.

• Design or assist with the design of cloud-based services to replace legacy applications.

• Coding of cloud-based microservices in C# using industry and best practices and coding standards.

• Development of unit and integration tests.

• Collaborate with internal and external teams where necessary identify and solve complex problems and review related information to evaluate and develop solutions.

• Test and deploy applications and systems.

• Develop documentation throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC) using the team wiki and other methods for example for development processes and tasks and new features.

• Work collaboratively as part of a team adhering to programming disciplines to deliver change effectively (e.g. CI CD etc.)

• Serve as an expert on the system and provide technical support.

• Offer and provide support and assistance to colleagues where appropriate and provide system knowledge sharing.

• Perform database modelling and solution design where required.

• Perform performance analysis and application tuning where required.

• Contribute to the definition of development standards and best practices.

• Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure continuity of service and implementation of global development standards.

Experience / Competences

Essential

• Strong development background (5 years) coding in recent versions of C# Framework and REACT JS SQL scripting. XML/BML/fpML

• Knowledge of Python

• Experience developing cloud architectures and cloud-based solutions such as services in AWS.

• Good understanding of microservice architectures and patterns.

• Experience in decoupled service-orientated systems for internal system dependencies and code.

• Experience designing and writing robust software for large-scale applications in a fast-changing environment with rapid release cycles.

• Some knowledge of HTML and HTML-based UI frameworks.

• Ability to write clean readable code.

• Strong in Object Orientated Programming Design Patterns SOLID principles and other industry standards.

• Proficient with Test Driven Development including Unit and Integration testing.

• Proficient with the Git code versioning tool.

• Proficient with Microsoft Entity Framework.

• Proficiency in working with relational databases (Oracle PostgreSQL etc.).

• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g. Git).

• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS(the latter preferred).

• Self-starter with ability to work independently to achieve results.

• Able to work well under pressure flexible positive & focused during times of change.

• Proven experience in software development problem solving documentation and working to tight deadlines.

• Ability to work on multiple tasks whilst managing multiple deadlines and priorities.

• Ability to self-start identify tasks required independently to fulfil project deliverables and work as a team member.

• Understanding the full project lifecycle from requirements capture through to implementation and delivery.

• A proven track record of developing high quality software to business specification whilst understanding processes and requirements.

• Strong understanding of Agile/Waterfall development methodologies.

• Experience of using Agile for example Scrum Safe Kanban methodologies.

• Ability to produce design documentation in a clear accurate and concise manner.

• Ability to use own initiative with strong personal organisation skills.

• Ability to develop new skills and understand new technology as required.

• Personable and engaging.

• Communicates effectively and efficiently to internal and external stakeholders.

• Build relationships and networks with both internally and externally wherever possible.

• Demonstrates strong customer focus.

• Demonstrates ability to work effectively with others.

• Constructively handles disagreements to reach a resolution.

• Ability to work with diverse groups/ personalities.

• Open to innovative ideas/ experiences and ability to create new ideas approaches or insights.

• Excellent attention to detail highly organised with a proactive approach.

• Strong analytical ability and problem solving skills.

Desired

• Experience of refactoring monolithic applications to microservices.

• Experience of messaging systems.

• Experience of containerisation technologies.

• Full-stack development experience

• Experience of AI coding agents(Claude Gemini Amazon Q)

• Knowledge of React or Angular UI frameworks.

• Knowledge of Typescript/JavaScript languages.

• Experience working in risk or settlement systems and/or trading organisation with an understanding of financial instruments

• Experience of Data Modelling