An outstanding opportunity to join a leading investment company. This is a dynamic, driven, highly competitive environment that attracts the best of the best.

Working within a team covering a range of skills and responsibilities including Domain Owners, Development Manager, Architect, Business Analysis, Developers ).NET and SQL), Report Developers and IT Operations. They are responsible for the systems that support the company’s asset management function.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• A SQL developer with at least 5 years’ experience to lead a small team responsible for developing and supporting integration and reporting solutions for the company’s Institutional business.
• Work as part of a larger IT team using the Scrum methodology.
• Interact with business users, Business Analysts and other developers to understand user equirements.
• Write technical specifications where required.
• Develop integration solutions using SQL and other vendor integration tools (Markit).
• Develop reporting solutions; write SQL stored procedures to manipulate the data supplied by the source system and prepare it for reporting.
• Design and create SSRS report definitions to present the data.
• Assist with the migration of existing Crystal reports onto SSRS reports.
• Optimising SQL queries to improve performance.
• Develop according to the company’s standards and deadlines.
• Provide 2nd line support for any production support issues.
• Support existing integration solutions in the production environment by analysing problems reported by users and track down their cause through debugging techniques and discussion with other team members.
• Testing and deployment of new development.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Essential: Analytical degree or Diploma (Com.Sci, B.Bus.Sci or B.Com with IS/Actuarial, BSc (Eng, Math) or similar
• Exceptional skills in writing SQL for Microsoft SQL server, including stored procedures, UDF’s and other T-SQL Querying.
• Experience in analysing data and performing complex data manipulation using Microsoft SQL.
• An understanding of relational database structures.
• Experience in interacting with business users to understand their requirements and managing the implementation of system changes.
• Knowledge of financial concepts and terms and interested in attending courses to improve business knowledge.

Financial Services industry experience would be an advantage.