Senior Developer

Are you an experienced Senior / Lead Developer ?

Do you have experience working in financial services, ideally Life & Pensions ?

Would you like to work for a Scottish based company who are going through a really interesting transformation ?

They are Glasgow city centre based and its hybrid working (2 days a week in the office)

You will be responsible for the provision of technical leadership, design and development of coding solutions for them.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead the design and development of IT projects and initiatives
• Contribute to and recommend improvements to existing processes
• Work closely with internal and external business stakeholders at a senior level, alongside IT Application delivery teams to understand, test and design new developments
• Present complex analytical concepts to all levels of the business
• Work independently with minimal guidance
• Provide training and mentorship to other colleagues in support of team and individual development
• Development and maintenance of technical IT solutions in support of business objectives
• Liaise with external software providers to deliver optimal design, delivery of cost effective solutions while ensuring third party deliver to an acceptable quality level

Skills and experience:

• Desire to learn, develop and ability to multi-task
• Desire to develop and deliver team level improvements including the support/development of other team members
• Initiative and problem-solving skills, being able to work through a problem, try different solutions
• Experience within financial services and knowledge of Life/Pensions/Investment products
• Experience of regulatory projects within Life/Pensions
• Experience of working with Sonata (essential)
• Awareness/experience of workflow solutions
• Experience of working with MGM Talisman (desirable)
• Knowledge T-SQL/P-SQL
• An understanding of data manipulation and analysis using SQL and Oracle tools and writing/maintaining stored procedures in support of our development community
• Understanding of T-SQL/PL-SQL and/or Development experience in these technologies
• Experience of developing skills in SSIS
• Understanding of XSL
• Understanding of Java and APIs desirable
• Good working experience using GitHub and CI/CD pipelines
• A logical thinker with initiative and ability to problem solve