Analyst Developer - Graphite

Role Description 

Analyst Developers at FNZ are all-rounders who can work across the full stack. This role involves working with complex business requirements in a wide range of functional areas in the financial services and platform domain. In this role, you are responsible for continued learning both in the FNZ business domain and your technical skills as a professional software engineer. You achieve this growth through hands-on work, training and interaction with your senior colleagues. Analyst Developers own non-functional requirements and are responsible for ensuring that their code complies with coding standards, is secure and performs well. In this role, you are responsible for learning best-practice in these areas from your senior peers 

Specific Role Responsibilities 

Analysis & Design 

• Collaborate with analyst tester and developer colleagues to create user story definitions and acceptance criteria. 

• Work within the constraints of the feature/user story to define the underlying design required to deliver these changes. 

• Ensure the solution is well defined and fit-for-purpose.  It must meet the requirements and work end-to-end. This will require a solid understanding of the underlying business processes involved in and surrounding the change. 

• Provide solutions and recommendations for the resolution of technical issues that arise and ensure solutions meet the technical specs and design requirements. 

• Help design and build APIs and external system interfaces for integration into core FNZ products and third-party vendor applications. 

Development 

• Interpret complex financial business requirements and translate into high-transactional, high-availability, secure, working systems. 

• Design and build the highly intuitive user interface and interactive financial tools required by financial advisers and investors. 

• Develop real-time workflow processing systems that support large volumes of trades every day in investment markets. 

• Work closely with our Solution Consultants and Analyst Testers to design and implement new functionality for our major institutional customers around the world. 

• Collaborate with other developers to make sure that the solutions developed are robust, secure, reusable, maintainable and in-line with the requirements. 

• Able to build medium complexity features end-end. 

• Continually develop an understanding of the business functionality of FNZ platforms 

Quality 

• Adhere to the defined procedures for code management, code reviews, coding standards, naming conventions and security standards. 

• Write automated unit tests for any newly created code; and 

• Perform manual testing to ensure any changes made to the system are of a high standard and the system hasn’t regressed. 

• Perform code reviews for other developers, when required, to ensure that proposed changes meet quality and best practice standards. 

Collaboration / Communication 

• Promote the development team both internally and externally. Ensure that creative solutions, tight code, tough problems solved are called out appropriately to the developer community, and where they lead to visible outcomes, to the broader FNZ teams and clients. 

• Collaborate with other developers to share knowledge, best practices, useful technology, and opportunities for cross-project system design / solutions. 

• Mentor new starters to ensure they understand both platform and SDLC. 

• Provide solution centre-wide training, as required, on topics of personal expertise. 

Technology 

• Keep abreast of latest and/or relevant technologies, tools and methods. Identify adoption of technology, tools and methods best suited to FNZ. 

• Proactively resolve technical (environmental, coding and testing) issues that impede development progress. Assist in the resolution of technical issues when requested by other developers. 

• Create novel solutions to problems by incorporating cutting edge technology or generic concepts. 

Experience required 

• First class bachelor’s degree or higher and/or equivalent experience.  

• Confident, and able to take initiative in a delivery-focused environment. 

• Independent, self-directing working style. 

• Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic fast-paced industry. 

• Enjoy working as part of a high-performance team. 

• Hard-working, innovative and takes pride in their work. 

• Passionate about creating innovative solutions for customers. 

• Some experience with one or more programming languages. 

• Participated in end-end deliveries of software products. 

• Experience with Microsoft .NET development products, including .NET, C# and SQL Server. 

• Experience with web development, including ASP.NET, JavaScript and ReactJS. 

• Experience with the following legacy development products would be beneficial: ASP.NET MVC, VB.NET, legacy .NET Framework versions. 

• Familiarity with financial products and markets. 

• Understanding of web services. 

• Familiar with code analysis or automated testing tools. 

Commitment to Equal Opportunities 

At FNZ, we recognise that diversity, equity and inclusion are important factors contributing to our success. We embrace the unique perspective and capabilities of our current and future employees, which will help us continue to drive innovation and achieve our business goals. Recruitment decisions at FNZ are made in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to gender, ethnicity/race, faith, age, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, socio-economic background, disability or military veteran status where all applicants and employees are valued and respected. In addition, we want to ensure accessibility needs are well supported, if you require specific support please advise us. 

About FNZ 

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back.  

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution.  

We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).