Sr. Programmer/Analyst – C++ on Unix & OOAD
Compensation: $65K – $85K / Year (depends upon experience) + bonus, benefits, etc.
Minimum Education: Tech School
Recruiting Company: Career driven
Job Type: Full Time, permanent
Job Location:Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada
COMPANY DESCRIPTION:
Client a leader in the financial services industry is currently looking for a Senior Programmer/Analyst to conduct full SDLC project development. You will be involved throughout the entire process from design and construction throught to implementation ans upport for mission critical business system applications.
The application development activities are conducted throughout the entire project life cycle and subsequent production support. The development stages range from project concept through architecture & design, construction, testing, implementation and support.
Your Key Accountabilities will include:
• Analyzing business requirements and use appropriate technologies (e.g. Object Oriented) to produce component, subsystem, and application level design
• Develop high performance and sustainable applications focusing on reusable components, stable interfaces, common libraries, etc
• Design and implement tools and drivers to confirm data consistency, measure the processing speed, and verify the system functional accuracy
• Preparation of application operational / procedural documentation for users and technical support staff. Documentation to be produced according to divisional standards
• Conduct / participate in design and code reviews, identify language related problems and performance issues, provide feedback and corrections related to online documentation, evaluate code compliance to enterprise and project standards
• Ongoing 1st level and 2nd level application support with rotational 7/24 pager duties to ensure mission critical application availability meet Service Level Agreements
• Code management of release deliverables.
• Ongoing application support / maintenance including bug fixes, application enhancements, capacity, performance and disaster recovery testing and various ad hoc requests
• Leadership and guidance of other development staff on various development assignments
• Act as a technical liaison with various other business and technical groups, support coordination of activities to achieve successful task completion targets
• Perform assessments and provide input to technical viability and cost effectiveness of various project proposals
• Provide assistance to management in the identification, scoping, estimation, scheduling, monitoring and delivery of various application deliverables
• Maintain an understanding of current computer technologies and industry related applications with a particular focus on the securities industry
You bring:
• University degree in computer science or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Strong experience and proficiency in developing both real-time transaction and batch processing concepts and techniques
• Minimum five years working experience in UNIX, Linux, C++, Java, C, SQL, Perl, and OO analysis and design. (C++ is the main programming language used within this group)
• Working knowledge of UML, Rational Rose and exposure to TIBco Rendezvous products, familiarity with BEA Tuxedo, JMS, or other middleware
• Ability to work independently and in collaboration with peers, business rules experts and stakeholders
• Organized, focused and persistent – ability to work to the plan and meet delivery dates
• Excellent interpersonal skills, verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to manage and balance multiple concurrent assignments
• Securities industry knowledge or Canadian Securities Course completion would be an asset
HOW TO APPLY:
To:
Julie Cox
Sr. IT Recruiter
CareerDriven
165 Richmond St.
Richmond Hill, ON L4C 3Y7
julie.cox@careerdriven.com
905-737-4721
