Building on more than 30 years of business expertise, Objectway is an international wealth, banking and asset management software provider empowering clients to embrace their future challenges while providing great performance today. The Group is a future-proof technology player with a well-established track record in the financial services industry and over €100 million of consolidated revenue. The Group is a global Top 100 fintech provider (IDC ranking), whose clients include 200+ leading Wealth Managers, Banks, Asset Managers, Fund Managers, Insurers and Outsourcers in more than 15 countries. With over 800 professionals operating from Italy, UK, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Ireland, the Group serves clients in 4 continents, supporting approximately 100,000 investment professionals to manage more than €1 trillion in assets.
To strengthen our team in Birmingham or London we are currently looking for a:
Development & Support Analyst
To be involved primarily in the development, support and testing of the eXimius Back Office Wealth Management application.
eXimius Back Office Wealth Management is designed for the challenges of today’s demanding investments & securities industry. In the current environment, success requires investment managers to keep pace with rapid-fire challenges such as continuing changes in legislation, increasingly demanding customers, and new business processes and investment products. The eXimius Back Office Wealth Management application provides advanced tools and technology to manage these challenges delivering a platform for modern investment management with state-of-the-art capabilities.
Working in a fast-paced development environment, the candidate will be involved in all aspects of the Agile development lifecycle from estimation through to build, test and support of the product.
The role is ideally suited to someone with a background, or an interest in the financial sector.
The successful candidate will be serving some of the biggest name clients in the financial sector, therefore commitment and attention to detail is essential. There will be opportunities for client site visits and client engagement, hence excellent communication skills are necessary. They will have good problem-solving skills and will work in a team environment, on a wide variety of business & technical issues. If you have these qualities, we would like to meet you.
Your role includes
- Review and analysis of client specifications
- Estimation and production of development proposals
- Building new software in line with client specifications
- Performing solution testing to ensure system integrity
- Servicing defect management activities
- Working within a Scrum team
- Defect management Activities in Customer Production Environments
- Responding to support tickets logged by the customer and progressing these through to resolution.
- Debugging Software and applying data or product fixes where appropriate
- Assistance and advice to customer on correct usage of the system to meet customer business needs
- Attend regular Meetings with the customer to prioritize and track open defects.
- Produce Defect Tracking and Service Level Reports for the customer
- Development work for Minor Product Enhancements
- Review, and analysis of client specifications
- Estimation and Production of development proposals
- Building new software in line with client specifications
- Performing solution testing to ensure system integrity
- System Administration Activities
- Assisting the customer with refresh of test environments.
- Undertake Application Software Deployment to Production and Test Environments.
- Upgrade/Implementation Activities
- Ratification and implementation of new software versions.
- Support of Customer User Acceptance Testing.
Requirements
• Quick Learner receptive to new technologies and practices.
• Team player, flexible, accurate, hands-on mentality.
• Innovative, team-oriented problem solver.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skills.
• Process-oriented skills for troubleshooting, problem solving, and problem resolution.
• Thorough and dependable – detail oriented.
• Strong commitment to providing quality service.
• Career minded and dedicated.
• Previous experience with any of the following would be an advantage:
o JasperSoft Reporting, report template design, data modelling
o Software development using Python
o Automated Software Testing
o Cloud deployment/Containerisation
o Working within a DevOps model
• An understanding and good working knowledge of the following core elements: HTML, Javascript, SQL.
• Permanent employment
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We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.
