Senior Application Developer

Worker Type:

Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

National Australia Bank Corporate and Institutional Banking is a specialist business unit of the NAB, responsible for managing the relationships with our largest customers, which provides a wide range of products and services from corporate lending to more complex products such as options, swaps, and futures.

The Senior Application Developer will be responsible for developing, documenting, maintaining, and deploying applications for the different business initiatives. Liaison with structurers, traders and salespeople is expected.

The position is a hands-on role, and the successful candidate is expected to proactively engage in all the stages of the software development life cycle.

The candidate must have a track-record of successful delivery of front and/or middle office systems from inception to implementation.

You will have solid expertise in Azure with a passion for building cloud-based solutions leveraging cloud native technologies and principles. 

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop, document, maintain and deploy business applications.
• Liaise with Business Analysts for requirements capture but also liaise with the business users directly.
• Assist with project implementation.
• Maintain and support (1st level) business applications.
• Conduct structured application tests when required.
• Design, deliver and support best-in-class strategic cloud offerings that are repeatable, auto-scaling, and resilient.
• Assist with the technical direction of projects.
• Conducting analysis of project and software requirements as part of the specific assigned work packages, in accordance with designated standards of methodology, style and quality.
• Creation of technical documentation to enable cross team support.
• Adherence to the NAB production change policy.
• Involvement as necessary in resolution of incidents, working with the NAB incident management team and Global Operations Centre

EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:

Mandatory

• Software development life cycle experience
• Experience with C#/.net – 5+ years
• Good understanding of relational databases, including normalisation, indices, performance tuning, etc. - 4+ years
• Experience using SQL Server or PostgreSql, including writing stored procedures – 4+ years
• Experience developing n-tier applications (windows services,
• web services, etc.). 2+ years
• Very good understanding of application design patterns and software development best practices.
• Knowledge in system architecture foundation and proven track-record of having implemented software best practices and design patterns.
• Experience using source control software (GIT/TFS)
• Cloud experience (Azure)
• Knowledge of cloud related automation concepts and tooling such as Azure Automation, Powershell Functions, Terraform Enterprise, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git.
• Experience supporting and delivering Azure services e.g. Virtual Machines, IAM, DNS, networking, NSG’s, ASG’s, LB.
• Experience using cloud native tools e.g. Azure Log Analytics, Azure Update Management, Azure Functions to review metrics, manage and monitor system/service health and utilisation of our cloud services

Desirable

• Experience in NoSQL databases
• Experience doing Blazor web development.
• Experience working with time-critical multi-threaded transactional applications.
• Experience working with WPF
• DevOps experience (CI/CD)
• Experience with derivatives risk systems and investment banking

QUALIFICATIONS

Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science/Software Engineering

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Senior Application Developer

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