Company information:
Our client is a prestigeous member of the wholesale banking sector, and we are seeking for experienced JAVA DEVELOPERS to work permanently at the E-distribution department in Utrecht - Holland.
Department: IS&D E-Distribution
As a professional partner to the business IS&D aims to provide the best IT solutions to several International (RI) departments. This consists of: new business development and also includes maintaining and supporting the developed applications. The majority of project activities is done for the RI/RN (National) Wholesale Business production chain that includes all front-, mid-, back office departments and related Compliance, Risk management, Finance & Control and HR departments.
E-Distribution department develops – the Bank's International electronic distribution proposition in cooperation with wholesale business area and, as a result, executes e-commerce projects to realise the requested functionality. E-Distribution is also responsible for support and maintenance of these electronic distribution applications and service lines.
Job Purpose:
The 4 E-Commerce services of E-Distribution are defined as:
- Information: Distribution of bank's research, rates and prices, internal as well as external news, and product information via internet based platforms
- Transactions: Internal as well as external systems aimed at providing RI Client entities with an electronic means to transact with RI: a live site is the portal towards Foreign Exchange and Money Market Transactions for corporate clients and small and medium enterprises;
- Reporting: Providing both internal and external clients with reporting tools on transactions closed with RI;
- Solutions: Internet based tools to facilitate RI clients and internal departments with their business.
Key Responsibilities:
Development and 3rd line support of in-house or packaged applications
- Planning and monitoring the development cycle
- Make design decisions based on Group strategy
- Create specifications/ design based on defined requirements
- Design application software according to defined specifications
- Design enhancements to software according to specifications
- Design database models and implementation structures for optimal performance
- Design test data and test scripts in order to verify correctness for unit tests
- Create estimates of your own piece of work based on requirements
- Create high level estimates of your own piece of work based on specifications
- Development of applications according to specifications and design
- Unit testing of developed applications
- Deliver system and user documentation to ensure that functionality and structure of the developed applications is described correctly
- Deliver procedures for implementation to ensure the application can be installed on (production) platforms
- Support chain testing
- Assistance to users in user acceptance testing for the developed applications
- Adherence to all IS&D policies and procedures
- Apply the selected version control software
- Apply the selected configuration software
- Testing upgrades of software
- Testing upgrades of underlying OS, DB, tools, etc.
- Functional and technical analysis of incidents/problems and providing possible solutions (3rd line support)
Requirements:
- More than 2 years of programming experience
- Experience with state of the art development tools, languages and methods
- Having worked in the financial sector (preferable)
- Experience with maintaining contacts with users (required)
- Experience with working in an international environment (preferable)
Skills:
Design techniques:
- OOD (Object Oriented Design)
- UML (Unified Modelling Language)
Development software:
- Java J2SE and J2EE
- HTML, XHTML and CSS
- JSP and Servlets
- XML and XSD
- Ant, jUnit and Log4J
- Eclipse and IBM RAD (Rational Application Developer)
System tools:
- Unix command line tools (ksh, bash, sed, awk)
Services:
- Apache Tomcat and IBM WAS (Websphere Application Server)
- IBM WPS (Websphere Portal Server)
- LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
- SQL and DB Admin (Sybase, Oracle, DB2)
Personal Skills
- Customer focus
- Proactive attitude towards tackling issues
- Thinking and sticking to structures, however allowing flexibility to adopt pragmatic solutions
- Analytical, written and oral communication skills.
- Focus on results
- Able to manage and motivate people
- Cooperative attitude and Team player
- Ability to work in an international environment
- Able to perform in an environment with different cultures
Advantages:
- Banking sector (especially online banking) development experience.
- Sun certification
- Dutch language skill is a great advantage!
What we offer:
- Local Employment contract
- Competive salary
- Career opportunity
Benefits:
- Health coverage
- Pension fund
Salary: €45-€60K per annum
Work type: Permanent, Employee
Contact person for this job
For more information plaese contact the responsible recruitment consultant:
Junior Consultant - IT & ITC
Tech-People Hungary Kft.
