Title:  Software Engineer Specialist- ScotiaTech

Key Accountabilities:

• Works closely with end-users, Business Analysts, and team members to understand business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions.  Must take an interest in understanding the business functions of the end-users.
• Investigate, analyze, develop and maintain a strong knowledge of trading workflows, technology and market structure to ensure most streamlined approaches are implemented
• Participate in meetings/stand ups with stakeholders to prioritize development tasks aligned with business goals.
• Contributes to the design of new applications and undertakes enhancements.
• Makes recommendations towards the development of new code or reuse of existing code
• Involved in the full software development life cycle and is responsible for designing, coding, testing, implementing and supporting application software that is delivered on time and within budget.
• Show initiative to prepare and document artefacts that is important to the team
• Prepare and support application releases intended for implementation to UAT and Production environments
• Perform support of production trading applications to troubleshoot and quickly resolve any issues or questions.
• Provide after hours support via an on-call pager on a rotational basis especially for application releases during a maintenance window or for other maintenance activities

Functional Competencies:

Motivating, time-management skill is required

•           Strong programming background, ideally including developing real-time, event-driven applications.

•           Hands on with development tools and languages such as Java 8+, Spring Boot, Hibernate

•           Experience in relational SQL development and Stored Procedures with Oracle and MSSQL databases as well as understanding of general database objects and structures

•           Experience with UNIX Shell scripting in Linux environments

•           Hands on experience with Angular 11+, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap

•           Proficient with SCM, Build and CI/CD tools such as Git/Github/Bitbucket, Artifactory, Maven, Jenkins/Cloudbees

•           Strong understanding of development best practices, TDD, test automation, and code quality

•           Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills to be able to take oral and written business requirements and develop efficient code to meet set deliverables

•           Ability to break down technical information and disseminating it to senior non-technical management

•           Need to be able to multi-task and work on multiple platforms and multiple projects concurrently.

•           Excellent problem solving, analytical and critical thinking is expected

•           Experience developing Micro services, architecture, and design patterns, including event based micro service deployments

•           Willing to learn new technologies i.e. Kafka, NiFI