Analyst Developer

Role Description
Analyst Developers at FNZ are all-rounders who analyse required system changes, design databases, write complex financial business logic and create slick web applications. They also work closely with analyst testers and other members of their project team to produce world class software. Analyst developers will be expected to learn all about our application, the business and the industry we operate in. 

Specific Role Responsibilities
Analysis & Design

• Assist the analyst tester in the creation of user story definitions and acceptance criteria.
• Work within the constraints of the feature/user story to define the underlying design required to deliver these changes.
• Ensure the solution is well defined and fit-for-purpose. It must meet the requirements and work end-to-end. This will require a solid understanding of the underlying business processes involved in and surrounding the change 
• Provide solutions and recommendations for the resolution of technical issues that arise and ensure solutions meet the technical specs and design requirements.
• Help design and build 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. 
• • Develop real-time transaction processing systems that support millions of trades every day in investment securities in multiple world markets.
• Work closely with our Solution Consultants and Analyst Testers to design and implement new functionality for our major institutional customers around the world.
• 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

• Adhere to the defined procedures for code management, code reviews, coding standards, naming conventions and security standards.
• 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.
• Perform code reviews for other developers, when required, to ensure that proposed changes meet quality and best practice standards.
• Collaboration / Communication
• Promote the development team both internally and externally. Ensure that creative solutions, tight code, 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; and
• 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.
• Provide solution centre-wide training, as required, on topics of personal expertise.

Technology

• • Keep abreast of latest and/or relevant technologies, tools and methods. Identify adoption of technology, tools and methods 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 by other developers; and
• • Create novel solutions to problems by incorporating cutting edge technology or generic concepts. 

Experience required
Primary requirements

• First class bachelor's degree or higher and/or equivalent experience.
• Confident, and able to take initiative in a delivery-focused environment.
• Independent, self-directing 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.
• Some experience with one or more programming languages.
• Participated in end-end deliveries of software products.

Secondary requirements

• Experience with Oracle advanced PL-SQL. Oracle database experience and understanding.
• Analyse existing SQL queries for performance improvements.
• Strong experience with Oracle functions, procedures, triggers, packages
• Experience with Oracle 10g, 11g, 12c, or any version up to 21.
• Experience with Microsoft .NET development products, including .NET, C# and SQL Server.
• Some experience with web development, including ASP.NET, JavaScript and ReactJS.
• Experience with the following legacy development products would be beneficial: ASP.NET MVC, VB.NET, legacy .NET Framework versions.
• Familiarity with financial products and markets.
• Understanding of web services.
• Familiar with code analysis or automated testing tools.

About FNZ 
FNZ is a global FinTech firm, transforming the way financial institutions serve their wealth management customers. We partner with banks, insurers and asset managers to help people achieve their financial goals through our unique combination of technology leadership, innovation and asset servicing.
Our services enable our clients to provide best-in-class wealth management solutions to financial advisers, end-investors and the workplace. We pride ourselves on creating solutions that are flexible, transparent and scalable, reflecting the latest market, demographic and regulatory trends worldwide.
FNZ has experienced exceptional growth in the past decade, both in terms of assets-under-administration and through the substantial expansion of our international footprint.

Today, we are responsible for over £1 trillion assets-under-administration, held by around 15 million customers of some of the world’s largest financial institutions, including Aviva, Barclays, BNZ, Generali, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, National Australia Bank (NAB), Quilter, Santander, UOB, Vanguard, and Zurich.

In total, FNZ partners with over 150 financial institutions across Europe, Asia Pacific, South Africa and North America and we employ around 3,000 people worldwide.

The company is owned by a combination of CDPQ-Generation, the unique sustainable equity partnership and FNZ employee shareholders.

Opportunities 

• Be part of a highly successful, rapidly growing, global business that is leading the delivery of financial services via cloud computing and partners with some of the world’s largest companies.
• Remuneration and career advancement is based on individual contribution and business impact rather than tenure or seniority.
• We provide significant financial rewards for high performing individuals; and
• We provide global career opportunities for our best employees at any of our offices in the UK, EU, US and APAC.

Additional Information

 At FNZ, we recognise that diversity, inclusion, and accessibility are important factors for our success. We embrace the unique perspective and capabilities of our current and future employees, which will help us continue to drive innovation and achieve our business goals. Recruitment decisions at FNZ are made in a non-discriminatory manner where all employees are valued and respected. In particular, we want to ensure accessibility needs are well supported thus, ensuring our recruitment process is fair and equitable for all applicants.

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back. 

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution. 

We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).

Together with our customers, we help over 20 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.