Software Engineer - DB Projects

Job Description:

 Job Title – Software Engineer – DB Projects

The Purpose of This Role:

A Software Engineer in the WI DB Projects team will design & develop scalable solutions that drive quality and efficiency across DB Operations. The team practices the agile development methodology in a matrix environment with teams functioning from US and Bangalore. This Development group provides automation solutions/Tools/ UDAs (User Developed Application) for DB Ops, Support Services & Data Mgmt group by creating applications using Microsoft technologies, web services and BI tools.

The Value You Deliver:

• Leveraging existing systems and architecture to drive scale and efficiency

• Assisting in design tollgates, solution engineering and reengineering

• Building applications to control and mitigate business risk and exposure

• Performing application maintenance and ensure information security controls

• Provide timely status updates, issue resolutions, and step-by-step instructions on usability questions

• Collaborate with Product, Execution, and other support teams to resolve or escalate user inquiries

• Based on support queue trends, make recommendations for innovation and automation to reduce volume

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The Skills that are Key to this role

Technical / Behavioral:

• Hands on experience in the following technologies

  • .net 3.5 and above/ C# .net / WPF / Web/Window forms / XML / Java Script / HTML / PHP

  • MS Office development in VB/VBA

  • LINQ, Entity Framework

  • Expertise in PL/SQL Server 2008 R2 / 2012 / 2014, Sybase

• Implement and deploy WPF for ClickOnce desktop application.

• Experience in building dashboards in Business intelligence tools such as Tableau or Power BI

• Exposure to GIT, Clearcase version control systems

• Proficient in OOPS, Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD), N-Tier Architecture, Model View Control (MVC) and Model View ViewModel(MVVM) design patterns

• Prior experience in building UDAs, Dashboard reporting and analytical work

• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication and collaboration skills

• Organized, analytical and detail oriented

The Skills that are Good To Have for this role:

• Project experience in Waterfall and Agile methodologies(Conducting Scrum meetings)

• Analyze business requirements for developing desktop and web based applications.

• Participate in all phases of project lifecycle, including analyzing, developing, testing, documenting and communicating technical design artifacts.

• Develop programmatic unit tests for all developed code.

• Define code coverage by following Test Drive Development.

• Ability to work with various stakeholders for finding opportunities for automation, deploy applications in different platforms

How Your Work Impacts the Organization:

Defined Benefits (Retirement Services) supports our business partners in the US in servicing corporate / institutional customers in benefits administration vertical. This involves moving the customers to the Fidelity platform and supporting their on-going record-keeping needs. This is done through a series of processes, both technical and non-technical, that helps a customer to use our products and services.

The primary focus of the team is on Defined Benefits

The Expertise We’re Looking For:

• 3+ years of experience in tool development

• Bachelor’s degree in a Technology-related discipline or equivalent in work experience

Location : Bangalore - EGL

Shift timings: 1:00 pm - 10:00pm 

Certifications:

Category:Information Technology