What are the responsibilities and job description for the Application Development Engineer - Azure position at Fisher Investments?
Overview
Are you looking to join a global technology department for an industry-leading financial advisory firm? Fisher Investments is looking for an Application Development Engineer (Azure) to support our Portfolio Management Group. If you are looking for an opportunity to make a difference as we develop scalable and strategic solutions to support our global growth, we want to hear from you! We are important to supporting our firm's diverse businesses, and we're excited to continue solidifying that foundation as we add more experienced developers to our strong Development teams.
The Opportunity:
The Application Development Engineer (Azure) provides internally-developed and third-party software solutions to meet business needs. You will utilize advanced expertise to serve as technical lead and collaborates with one or more scrum teams on technical delivery and mentor more junior members. You will report to an Application Development Manager (Team Lead).
The Day-to-Day:
We work for a bigger purpose: bettering the investment universe. We take great pride in our inclusive culture, our learning and development framework customized for every employee, and our Great Place to Work Certification. It's the people that make the Fisher purpose possible, and we invest in them by offering exceptional benefits like:
Are you looking to join a global technology department for an industry-leading financial advisory firm? Fisher Investments is looking for an Application Development Engineer (Azure) to support our Portfolio Management Group. If you are looking for an opportunity to make a difference as we develop scalable and strategic solutions to support our global growth, we want to hear from you! We are important to supporting our firm's diverse businesses, and we're excited to continue solidifying that foundation as we add more experienced developers to our strong Development teams.
The Opportunity:
The Application Development Engineer (Azure) provides internally-developed and third-party software solutions to meet business needs. You will utilize advanced expertise to serve as technical lead and collaborates with one or more scrum teams on technical delivery and mentor more junior members. You will report to an Application Development Manager (Team Lead).
The Day-to-Day:
- Responsible for technical development and testing of software from inception through user acceptance for medium- to large-scale projects, typically involving multiple departments and high risk situations
- Work with your scrum team collaboratively on technical design and implementation (coding)
- Work with the Product Owner(s) on helping estimate and refine upcoming work
- Provide technical leadership, contribute to technical direction, and participate in architectural decisions
- Present options and work with the project team to set client expectations, including senior management
- Be a liaison to multiple groups: Infrastructure, Information Security and the Service Desk
- Support production software operations
- Minimum 5 years' experience developing software in an enterprise environment
- Extensive experience working with Azure technologies, Event Driven programming, API programming and relational databases in .NET and Microsoft SQL Server
- Experience building scalable, distributed systems (REST based API services, micro service architectures, messaging frameworks such as EventHub, Service Bus)
- Experience in Testing and Automation (SDET)
- Experience in Azure ADF is desired
- Solid Software architectural experience translating requirements into technical designs and solutions
- Experience developing cloud-ready applications with Azure and deployment technologies such as JFrog
- Working knowledge of implementing scalable and resilient enterprise applications with high availability, disaster recovery and strong security model
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, or other science field required or equivalent experience
We work for a bigger purpose: bettering the investment universe. We take great pride in our inclusive culture, our learning and development framework customized for every employee, and our Great Place to Work Certification. It's the people that make the Fisher purpose possible, and we invest in them by offering exceptional benefits like:
- 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for you and your qualifying dependents
- A 50% 401(k) match, up to the IRS maximum
- 20 days of PTO, plus 10 paid holidays
- Family Support programs including 8 week Paid Primary Caregiver Leave, $10,000 fertility, family forming, and hormonal health assistance, and back-up child, adult, and elder care
- This is an in-office role. Based on your role, tenure, and performance eligibility you may have the opportunity to participate in our hybrid work from home program. This program is subject to change.