Data Engineer

About the role

As an IT team member, you’ll play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and managing technology solutions that are the foundation of the world-class customer service that our customers expect and deserve – now and in the future.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement object-oriented code and scripting languages to support the interface and accounting systems
• Implement solutions that enhance, streamline and automate the management of our IT systems
• Aid with the configuration, implementation and maintenance of the technical environments for the current development, staging and production environments
• Code and maintain system interfaces and extracts to handle the migration accounting information to ancillary systems
• Develop technical and functional test plans and scripts to validate the successful design, development, and implementation of system and reporting deliverables
• Code and support multiple in-place programs
• Cover requirements, design, coding, interfaces, and data flows
• To troubleshoot and identify root cause analysis of application problems
• To identify action items and make recommendations to address process and coding issues
• Create and maintain derivatives support knowledge base that includes technical and process documentation

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science and/or finance or accounting
• 2+ years minimum as Applications Developer
• Solid understanding of relational databases, data transformations, shell scripts, JAVA scripts, etc.
• Demonstrated expertise in developing automated jobs
• Good understanding of Microsoft .Net framework, C#, VB.Net or ASP.Net
• Working knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC) & Agile methodologies
• Experience in developing and/or supporting Accounting, Finance or Investments systems
• Proven history of detail-oriented execution and commitment to customer satisfaction

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience developing complex Finance, Investments, Portfolio Management and/or Capital Markets systems
• Experience and working knowledge in Data Warehouse and ETL
• Experience with accounting principles, practices, and methodologies
• Experience in working with data feeds, such as Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Markit, or similar
• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) or similar credential
• Java and/or Python experience a plus