.NET/SQL Developer, Sr

We are seeking a highly motivated senior developer / architect to join our software development and application support team. The well rounded individual will help design and program web based business and reporting applications. Candidates must be able to translate business requirements into technical architectures, data models and designs. Candidates should have excellent client facing skills and be able to articulate technical issues.

The candidate should be well versed in agile software development methodologies, expert in multiple tools and technologies, possess excellent technical problem solving skills, programming and unit testing skills. In addition, the candidate will be expected to help shape technical documents with complex designs and fully understand and utilize the appropriate tool set to solve client needs.

Primary Function & Essential Responsibilities

Responsible for providing solutions to complex problems with workable solution architectures and technical documents

Remove, resolve, or expedite roadblocks for team members in a timely manner

Facilitate project meetings effectively and ensure team is focused on continuous improvement

Identify opportunities for usability improvements, simplification and standardization across application stack(s)

Ensuring that code meets coding and security specifications.

Manage quality aspects of offshore and outsourced development initiatives. Responsible for peer code reviews as well as vendor code reviews.

Responsible for reading an existing code base in order to analyze its behavior and make fixes or enhancements to it

Assist in build vs. buy decision for business unit applications, R&D around upcoming technology

Evangelize the solution, the process and the team to business leadership

Responsible for effective communication and interaction with project teams

Responsible for meeting project objectives on time

Liaison to the Application Architecture team and PMO teams to ensure guidelines and process across all technology initiatives are aligned properly

Reports To: VP, Software Development

Qualifications

Experience Required:

5+ year's cumulative experience designing and developing applications on the Microsoft .Net platform and technologies i.e. C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, WCF, Silverlight, AJAX, jQuery, etc.

Microsoft Office Excel expertise, in particular the creation / maintenance of Excel VBA macros and VBA code is required.

Understanding of Service Oriented Architecture

Understanding of design pattern and Microsoft best practices

Strong understanding and proven experience with technologies such as web-services, XML / XSLT,WCF, Smart clients

Strong understanding and experience of messaging frameworks.

Experience with ETL processing using SSIS

Must possess SQL programming and SQL tuning skills.

Experience writing and tuning stored procedures

Understanding and experience with building performance (speed and accuracy) critical applications

Understands how to analyze a code base as well as the fundamental constructs of object based programming.

Detail oriented with strong analytical and organizational skills to effectively work in a dynamic environment

Results driven with an ability to multitask and meet aggressive deadlines

Experience with development methodologies ranging from Waterfall to RUP to Scrum

Ability to troubleshoot and diagnose complex software problems

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Prefer exposure to one or more of the following business platforms related to investment management - Trading and Settlements Platforms (example - Black Mountain Systems Everest), Portfolio Accounting (examples - Advent Geneva, Markit - Wall Street Office), Risk Management systems or performance reporting systems (Eagle PACE, data warehouse)

Technical Platform Specialty:

Microsoft C#

ASP .NET, Java Script/CSS/XML

Experience with SQL, particularly T-SQL

Experience with MS SQL Server

Experience with Tableau or other reporting platforms

Microsoft SQL Server Report Services and Report Builder (SSRS)

Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Server (SSAS)

Microsoft SQL CLR Programming

Education/Certification: BS in Computer Science or equivalent technical training and professional work experience.

Additional Information

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