In Wolters Kluwer’s Financial Services business unit we possess deep insight into the industry, providing governance, risk and compliance programs and solutions to more than 15,000 financial services organizations worldwide.
About the Role
As a Software Engineer for Market Risk you will participate to building and enhancing our new regulatory reporting software application for Basel III Market Risk.
Agile/SCRUM is our prevailing software development methodology which means you will be part of a multi-disciplinary scrum team and work closely with other software engineers and functional analysts under the guidance of a dedicated Product Owner.
You will have the opportunity to play a role in the technical conception and realization of this state-of-the-art software application and be involved into a variety of tasks part of the development life-cycle.
Responsibilities:
- Implement specifications using a WKFS domain specific domain language according to WKFS coding standards (DSL) and its resulting Java code
- Take part in the team Agile / SCRUM development process, actively participate to SCRUM ceremonies
- Evaluate the impact of new developments on the application and contribute to the technical design of the application
- Contribute to estimating development efforts and impact analysis
- Develop and maintain our continuous integration system over a multi-platform landscape
- Define test scenarios, implement automated test cases, perform non-regression analysis, analyse test results to validate new functionalities in close collaboration with the other team members
- Participate to full system development life cycle per company’s SDLC standards
- Actively contribute to code refactoring, tooling improvement, technical product upgrades
- Participate to peer code reviews
- Contribute to building and maintaining documentation & training material on the application from a technical perspective
Qualifications and Skill Set:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
- Good knowledge of and experience with Java
- Knowledge of Subversion, Jira, Confluence, TeamCity, CI/CD
- Basic understanding of SQL
- Experience in agile/SCRUM/DevOps environment is an asset
- Eagerness to learn new things, and divert from common paths
- Interest in banking and the financial industry in general
- Fluency in English, written and oral
- Interest in learning and working with DSL
Personality / Personal traits
- Good communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
- Responsible, methodical and organised
- Self-learner, independent, assertive
- Good team player
- Problem-solving abilities and ability to meet reasonable deadlines
