Title:

Senior Software Developer (Progress)

Status:

Regular Full-time

General Role

& Responsibilities:

To effectively fulfill the responsibilities of this position, the candidate must be able to complete the following:

• Participate in detailed software design, providing creativity and innovation
• Provide constructive leadership to other developers
• Provide software programming expertise to the Development team
• Take ownership of assigned personal and team tasks
• Effectively manage time in executing assigned tasks across multiple projects
• Follow IFDS development and release standards
• Willing to take calculated risks and proactively mitigate issues that introduce risk to the development lifecycle
• Participates in preparation of initial and detailed estimates for development and enhancement requests
• Attends and conducts reviews of requirements, business design, data model, process model, object model, system test scripts and technical design documents as needed.
• Develop/maintain/report measurable metrics around product deliverables
• Act as a business-system consultant
• Have a positive attitude and solution oriented during difficult situations
• Assist and guide testing resources
• Review unit test plan completed by other developers

Competencies:

(Behavioral and Functional)

Critical

• Highly disciplined in the areas of analysis, coding and unit testing
• 5-7 years experience in software development
• OpenEdge – PROGRESS 4GL Application development
• Expert knowledge in PROGRESS based application tuning and Database management skills
• Knowledge of messaging applications such as SonicMQ
• Agile or Extreme Programming or Test Driven Development or Scrum
• Working with different file formats and conversion
• Web Technologies such as Java, J2EE, XML, HTML
• Strong analytical and systematic abilities
• Ability to manage stress and work with tight deadlines
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Team building skills
• Business process knowledge
• Ability to provide technical and process leadership to development team members

Important

• Timely delivery of high quality, innovative design specifications that meet IFDS requirements for specific features
• Timely delivery of high quality, unit tested software that meets requirements and design specifications 
• Ability to follow-through ensuring thorough completion of assigned personal and team tasks with minimal supervision
• Adherence to, and assistance in ongoing improvement of, IFAST applications and other vendor products
• Thorough knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle methodologies
• Negotiation, influencing and relationship building skills
• Ability to manage personnel, including training, evaluation and communication of expectations, requirements and results, and ensuring implementation and consistent application of department policies, procedures and quality standards
• Ability to foster an environment that encourages team work and strong work ethics.
• Excellent financial management skills
• Extremely customer focused
• Enthusiastic and motivational
• Deliver training to the business and operations

Beneficial

• Knowledge in iFAST applications will be beneficial
• Mutual Fund business knowledge
• Knowledge of utilizing opensource applications
• Knowledge of Unix based environments
• Knowledge of Shell scripting, Perl scripting
• Experience in using ALM application such as HP Quality Centre, Requirements management tool
• Diverse outside interests