Senior C++ Developer

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Senior C Developer for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in Jersey City, NJ.

The Senior C Developer is responsible for project-team leadership, support and direction with business systems analysis, development and occasional maintenance support in an object/service oriented architecture implemented on the Java platform.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with Senior Systems Architects, Software Team Leads and other Software Developers to design, develop and deploy technical solutions
• Analyzes complex information, designs, develops and troubleshoots database applications
• Reviews functional requirements and prepares and documents technical program, subsystem and system designs and solutions and their associated project task descriptions and effort estimates
• Uses both industry-standards and company's existing systems architecture, design techniques and development standards and reviews new work with others to ensure it complies with industry and company standards
• Documents technical requirements, program and subsystem designs, project task descriptions, effort estimates, and unit and integration tests
• Performs new development, maintenance fixes and enhancements to meet business requirements
• Assists other teams to troubleshoot application issues in production, quality assurance and other environments
• Develops, reviews, refines, uses and documents plans for both automated and manual unit and integration tests and/or assures unit and integration tests are successfully completed prior to production
• Tests programs for integration prior to production
• Mentors other software developers and IT staff members
• Documents resolutions to system problems
• Documents designs for system requirements
  
  

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree (pref. Computer Science or related degree) or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 7 years experience
• Highly self-motivated, with the ability to complete tasks with minimal guidance, and to learn independently
• Excellent skills in C
• Excellent skills in C Templates
• Excellent skills in Multithreading
• AMQ
• Oracle
• Excellent analytical and problem solving abilities
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills in working in a cross-functional team comprised of Product Analysts, QA, UAT, Development and PMO members
• Ability to juggle tasks and priorities to meet rapidly changing deadlines
• Must work with System Architects to review/approve program and subsystem designs
• Proficiency in UNIX/Linux and Microsoft Windows distributed computing
• Basic skills with Excel spreadsheets and Word documents
• Relational DB principles using Structured Query Language (SQL)
• Agile/Scrum methodologies
  
  

Preferred Skills:

• Background in Securities/Banking/Financial Services
• Java IDE (preferably IntelliJ IDEA)
• Unix/Linux
• XML and/or Web Services
• JDBC and JPA/Hibernate
• Unix Shell scripting
• Experience working with an issue management system
• Experience working with a wiki
  
  

SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at https://sgainc.com/ .

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