Senior Java Developer - Securities Lending Systems
Company:
Barclays Global Investors (US)
Location:
USA-CA-San Francisco
Remuneration:
base plus bonus
Position Type:
Employee
Employment type:
Full time
Updated:
16 Sep 2008
eFC Ref no:
427673
Securities Lending Trading Application Developer
Barclays Global Investors (BGI) is America's largest money manager, providing structured investment strategies such as indexing, risk-controlled active products, and exchange traded funds to investors worldwide. For 35 years, BGI has been at the forefront of developing innovative investment ideas, applying science and technology to the investment process. Headquartered in San Francisco and winning first place in the SF Business Times' ''Best Places to Work in the Bay Area 2008" Awards (Large Companies category), the Barclays PLC subsidiary employs over 3,700 people globally and manages approximately $2 trillion in assets.
Primary Responsibilities
Design, implement, test and deploy technical solutions that satisfy business requirements
Relationship management: build strong working partnerships with business and technology team members
Proactively identify and address changing business needs
Partner with Securities Lending business users to analyze business requirements
Proactively support application in production by quickly identifying and fixing production issues
Consistently write, translate, and code software programs and applications according to specifications
Run and monitor performance tests on new and existing software for the purposes of correcting mistakes, isolating areas for improvement, and general debugging
Administer diagnostic analysis of test results and deliver solutions to critical areas
Liaise with network administrators, systems analysts, programmers, and other software engineers to resolve any defects in supported applications.
Qualifications
Experience in object-oriented analysis/design (5+ years)
Experience in Java – fundamentals (4+ years)
Experience in Java – J2EE (3+ years)
Experience developing client/server, distributed systems (3+ years)
Experience in SQL – Sybase of equivalent RDBMS (3+ years)
Experience supporting business-critical systems (2+ years)
Spring/Hibernate experience preferred
Experience with JUnit/EasyMock
Experience in Agile Development methodology or Extreme Programming derivatives
Experience in financial application development preferred
