Software Developer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work actively with team members to analyze and resolve application issues


• Identify defects, discrepancies, and trends by ways of code debugging or log analysis


• Manage incidents and effectively communicate with users, application owners and senior stakeholders across all areas


• Improve application stability and performance by observing patterns, recurring failures and/or issues, and advise application owners on permanent fixes accordingly


• Adopt various tools developed by Engineering team to automate failures using machine learning techniques and notify discrepancies in the health of production and automation of health-restoration, with a focus on continuous measurement of risk and cost.


• Identify alerts / processes that can be automated and then work with Engineering team in automating them


• Challenge existing application setup, processing and suggest different ways to solve problem or improve stability


• Actively participate in Change management process with view to manage risk in production environment


• Build and improve run books for generalists to minimize operational errors and gain fungibility/efficiency


• Develop reports that provide trending statistics to track and manage application health and support service performance

Willing to learn and troubleshoot/support proprietary technologies not available through market place. No knowledge of proprietary technologies is required pre-hire

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor s degree (U.S. or equivalent) and Five (5) years of software development experience

MUST HAVE SKILLS AND/OR LICESNSES REQUIRED TO PERFORM THE JOB:

• Computer Science concept of Data Structures in practical use cases


• Problem solving in a development or production environment, including experience observing patterns, analyzing root cause and suggesting ideas to resolve issues


• Good communication skills with ability to articulate the technical and functional aspects of a development/production problem to help drive solutions with App Dev teams and senior stakeholders

One of the following Structured or Object Oriented programming languages: Java, C, C++,

One of the following Scripting languages: Shell script, Perl, JavaScript or Python etc.

One of the following RDBMS environments: Sybase ASE/IQ, Oracle or DB2

OPTIONAL SKILLS OR QUALIFICATION ( NICE TO HAVE )

Experience in the Financial Service Industry

Experience in Cluster Computing and Big Data solutions: Spark, Hadoop, HDSF, XRS using public cloud

Degree in Computer Science