In order to support the business growth, Natixis is looking for an Application Developer specialized in Summit (Finastra).

This is a Front to Back office position within the FICT group of Natixis IT department.

The role of the Application Developer is to develop (i.e.: program) pieces of software as per the sponsors' requirements. The sponsor can be a user, a department or a project.

The delivered product will essentially comprise of a GUI (graphical user interface), an engine (i.e.: for calculation, decisions making, order passing, etc.) and a data component (i.e.: pull in, manipulate, store, push out).

In compliance with the firm's software development policies, the Application Developer is providing software solutions that will allow the firm to increase its productivity and efficiency, streamline its processes, mitigate risk, remain compliant with the changing markets regulations and in turn build up its competitive advantage.

Responsibilities:

For all that relates to Fixed Income, Treasury and Credit business:

Development:

• Gather, understand and analyze user requirements
• Turn these requirements into functional and technical specification documents outlining:
• Business need(s) to be addressed
• Software alternatives
• Proposed alternative along with action plan and cost
• Justification of the selected technologies
• Implement, test, release and maintain/support the software solution in line with the agreed upon specifications

Support / maintenance:

• Troubleshoot applications, databases and processes as needed
• Assist users to make the best use of the delivered technologies
• Train users, colleagues and peers as needed

Guidance & Project Management

• Provide guidance to more junior staff within the team
• Take ownership of medium scale projects

Other

• Report comprehensive status to management on a regular basis
• Write technical and functional documentation as needed
• Continue to develop technical skills and learn new technologies as needed

Required education and/or experience

• Bachelor s degree in computer science
• Minimum of 5 years of directly related experience
• Experience in financial services, specifically an international bank is highly preferred

Technical Skills

• Deep knowledge on Summit, must be familiar with products traded on Treasury, Credit business and Fixed Income (Repo and Bonds) is preferred.
• Must be familiar with Summit STP services for Front Office and back office as cashflows, accounting, operations and settlements workflows.
• Deep IT knowledge, the successful candidate must be able to review source code, write and execute SQL queries (Sybase, Oracle and SQL Server) and read/understand a script (Windows and Unix as Bash, Perl, Python). Deep knowledge of Summit metamodel is preferred
• Knowledge of Visual Studio, C , C#, Infragistics, XML, XSLT, Excel VBA
• Ability to analyze complex problems, with strong attention to detail and ability to provide solutions to problems.
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task in a fast-paced environment on multiple applications.

Soft skills

• Great written and verbal communication skills to interact with end users and project managers
• Must be able to work both independently and collaboratively with local and global teams
• Ability to juggle multiple high-priority tasks, in a fast-paced demanding environment.
• Experience with Agile Methodologies (GIT, Jira, Jenkins, Confluence)