Role Description

This role has been created to: 

• Serve as a point of entry for junior and early-career developers into the Analyst Developer job family.
• Provide developers with a launching pad to learn and develop the business, technical and professional skills required to be an effective developer at FNZ.
• Support delivery obligations to customers and internal stakeholders

Specific Role Responsibilities

• Analysis and Design
• Collaborate in the analysis and design process by assisting the analyst tester in the creation of user story definitions and acceptance criteria. This will expose you to a wide range of details about the functional and technical nature of FNZ platforms.
• Work within the constraints of the feature/user story to define the underlying detail of the required changes.
• Participate in functional review and demonstration of feature build to ensure solutions are well-defined and fit for purpose.
• Apply your problem-solving skills by being involved in defect analysis to understand the root cause and to define the correct solution. Work with senior colleagues to debug and provide solutions for technical issues that arise and ensure solutions meet the technical specs and design requirements
• Development
• Apply your technical skills to complex financial business requirements and translate into high-transactional, high-availability, secure, working systems.
• Work with experienced colleagues to design and build the highly intuitive user interface and interactive financial tools required by financial advisers and investors.
• Design and build the highly intuitive user interface and interactive financial tools required by financial advisers and investors.
• Adhere to guidelines and practices surrounding non-functional requirements. Ensure you are writing secure, highly performant and maintainable software. FNZ produces high-volume, real-time transaction processing systems that support millions of trades every day in investment securities in multiple world markets.
• Write automated unit tests for any newly created code.
• Quality
• Participate in code reviews to gain feedback on your technique from senior peers.  Review other developers’ code to enhance your skills and knowledge.
• 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 unit testing to ensure any changes made to the system are of a high standard and error-free.
• Collaboration/Communication
• Engage in the collaboration and communication channels in the organisation. Participate in solution design to ensure that creative solutions and 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.
• Collaborate with other developers to share knowledge, best practices, useful technology, and opportunities for cross-project system design / solutions.
• Promote sharing of knowledge and skills by being involved in the various cross-organisation groups, guilds and communities of practice.
• Technology
• Stay up to date with industry practices, new technologies, tools and methods and suggestion adoption that are best suited to FNZ.
• Identify technical (environmental, coding and testing) issues that impede development progress and raise with colleagues and leaders.  Assist in the resolution of technical issues when requested by other developers.
• Perform manual unit testing to ensure any changes made to the system are of a high standard and error-free
• Functional Area Responsibilities 
• Analyst Developers at FNZ are all-rounders who can work across the full stack.  This role involves working with complex business requirements in a wide range of functional areas in the financial services and platform domain. In this entry-level role, you are actively learning and working on FNZ propositions, business channels, jurisdiction-specific concerns and business functional areas.  You seek to develop your skills and knowledge through hands-on work, training and interaction with your senior colleagues. Analyst-Developers own non-functional requirements and are responsible for ensuring that their code complies with coding standards, is secure and performs well.  At entry-level, you are responsible for learning best-practice in these areas from your senior peers.

Experience required 

Primary requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (min A- average for under-graduate, first class for post-graduate);
• Confident, and able to take initiative in a delivery-focused environment;
• Independent, self-directed 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.

Secondary requirements 

• Some experience with one or many programming languages;
• Experience with the following modern and legacy development products and frameworks: Microsoft .NET, C#/VB.NET, ASP.NET, MVC, WebAPI and SQL Server, Javascript, ReactJS, jQuery.
• Experience with web development
• Familiarity with financial products and markets
• Understanding of web services and enterprise integration patterns.
• Familiar with tools for code analysis and automated testing.