Assistant Vice President, Application Development Software Engineer

CLS-Group • Iselin, NJ

32d • $150,000 - $175,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The role is expected to develop database solutions that support CLS’s core settlement applications.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience (7-10 years) delivering database solutions (DB2 is preferred)
• Financial industry experience
• SDLC with focus on development practices
• Software delivery experience in the 'Financial Services' business domain
• Proven ability of develop database solutions.
• Experience of managing or working with teams within an offshored service model
• Hands on database development experience
• Understanding of integration design patterns
• Self-starter
• Quick learner
• Analytical
• Proactive
• Motivated
• Flexible
• Leadership capability
• Team player
• Clear communicator.

Nice To Haves

• Good to have financial/banking domain experience.
• Database technologies (DB2 or SQL Server is preferred)
• Physical and logical data modeling
• SQL and Database Tuning expertise
• Linux shell scripting
• Knowledge of ETL tools, reporting tools is a plus

Responsibilities

• Project Activities - Taking responsibility of the project development activities. This includes:
• Review requirements, high level designs
• Create detailed design documentation
• Provide resource and development effort estimation
• Participate in planning activities and provide technical input
• Ensure software development practices are adhered to e.g., unit testing, component integration testing etc.
• Development of database software
• Identify and escalate Risks / Issues / Dependencies
• Liaise with project stakeholders (internal to CLS and third party) to address for example knowledge gaps, queries and any other such dependencies
• Attend / arrange meetings, workshops.
• Enhancing/improving development practices
• Test automation
• Improving build processes
• Contributing to knowledge repositories

Benefits

• 25 holiday days and 3 ‘life days’ (in addition to bank holidays). US: 23 holiday days.
• 2 paid volunteer days so that you can actively support causes within your community that are important to you.
• Generous parental leave policies to ensure you can enjoy valuable time with your family.
• Parental transition coaching programmes and support services.
• Wellbeing and mental health support resources to ensure you are looking after yourself, and able to support others.
• Employee Networks (including our Women’s Forum, Black Employee Network and Pride Network) in support of our organisational commitment to embrace and always be learning more about inclusivity.
• Hybrid working to promote a healthy work/life balance, enabling employees to work collaboratively in the office when needed and work from home when they don’t.
• Active support of flexible working for all employees where possible.
• Monthly ‘Heads Down Days’ with no meetings across the whole company.
• Generous non-contributory pension provision for UK/Asia employees, and 401K match from CLS for US employees.
• Private medical insurance and dental coverage.
• Social events that give you opportunities to meet new people and broaden your network across the organisation.
• Annual flu vaccinations.
• Discounts and savings and cashback across a wide range of categories including health and retail for UK employees.
• Discounted Gym membership – Complete Body Gym Discount/Sweat equity program for US employees.
• All employees have access to Discover – our comprehensive learning platform with 1000+ courses from LinkedIn Learning.
• Access to frequent development sessions on a number of topics to help you be successful and develop your career at CLS.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed