Your New Company
Join a leading global financial services firm with a strong presence in over 30 countries. Japan's IT division is a diverse environment with employees from over 25 nationalities, focusing on technical support, application development, and system changes.
Your New Role
As a Software Engineer, you will:
- Participate in regional and global development and project meetings.
- Collaborate with business analysts, project managers, and end users to gather and review requirements, providing design and enhancement suggestions.
- Follow global development and change management standards to deliver quality solutions in a timely manner.
- Engage in development, code reviews, and post-mortem activities.
- Participate in release management and provide 2nd/3rd level support.
- Work as a team player to solve local and global business problems while building a strategic platform for Global Equities.
- Partner with the Equities production services team to ensure maximum system uptime and minimize business impact during issues.
What You'll Need to Succeed
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or engineering.
- 5–15 years of hands-on development experience.
- Strong experience with object-oriented technology in C# or Java, with familiarity in both being a plus.
- Ability to work with global teams in a matrix reporting environment with strong interpersonal skills.
- Ability to cope with rapid front-office business needs and changing priorities.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills at multiple levels, with strong status reporting skills.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Fluent in written and spoken English.
Technical Requirements: - Programming skills in C# or Java, with experience in both being a plus.
- Understanding of relational database technologies, SQL/Stored Procedures, and in-memory caching technology
- Understanding of infrastructure requirements for local/global delivery platforms.
- Understanding of messaging infrastructures.
- Understanding of compute farms, distributed caching, and computing is a plus.
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