Development and Support Analyst

Objectway Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Objectway Group and provides software solutions and services to asset management, capital market, banking, and insurance sectors. www.objectway.com From offices in Italy, Belgium, the UK and South Africa, Objectway’s roughly 600 employees support more than 100,000 investment professionals in 15 countries, who manage more than one trillion euros in wealth. To strengthen our team in Birmingham we are currently looking for a: Development and Support Analyst To be involved primarily in the development, support and testing of the eXimius Back Office Wealth Management application. eXimius Back Office Wealth Management is designed for the challenges of today’s demanding investments & securities industry. In the current environment, success requires investment managers to keep pace with rapid-fire challenges such as continuing changes in legislation, increasingly demanding customers, and new business processes and investment products.

The eXimius Back Office Wealth Management application provides advanced tools and technology to manage these challenges delivering a platform for modern investment management with state-of-the-art capabilities. The role is a hybrid between development and support, which will involve working in fast-paced development and support environments. The candidate will be involved in all aspects of the Agile development lifecycle from estimation through to build, test and support of the product.

The candidate will also work within a dedicated customer team, and be involved in all aspects of application support of the Objectway products operated by the customer. The role is ideally suited to someone with a background, or an interest in the financial sector. The successful candidate will be serving some of the biggest name clients in the financial sector, therefore commitment and attention to detail is essential.

There will be opportunities for client site visits and client engagement, hence excellent communication skills are necessary. They will have good problem-solving skills and will work in a team environment, on a wide variety of business & technical issues. If you have these qualities, we would like to meet you.

Objectway will train the successful candidate in: Development using Intersystems IRIS/Cache/Ensemble technology platform Investment Management Industry business practices Atlassian JIRA Issue Management The role will include: Review and analysis of client specifications Estimation and production of development proposals Building new software in line with client specifications Performing solution testing to ensure system integrity Working within a Scrum team Defect management Activities in Customer Production Environments Responding to support tickets logged by the customer and progressing these through to resolution. Debugging Software and applying data or product fixes where appropriate Assistance and advice to customer on correct usage of the system to meet customer business needs Attend regular Meetings with the customer to prioritize and track open defects. Produce Defect Tracking and Service Level Reports for the customer Development work for Minor Product Enhancements Review, and analysis of client specifications Estimation and Production of development proposals Building new software in line with client specificationsPerforming solution testing to ensure system integrity System Administration Activities Assisting the customer with refresh of test environments.

Undertake Application Software Deployment to Production and Test Environments. Upgrade/Implementation Activities Ratification and implementation of new software versions. Support of Customer User Acceptance Testing.

Requirements: Up to 5 years’ experience programming in any software technology. Quick Learner receptive to new technologies and practices. Team player, flexible, accurate, hands-on mentality.

Innovative, team-oriented problem solver. Excellent interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skills. Process-oriented skills for troubleshooting, problem solving, and problem resolution.

Thorough and dependable – detail oriented. Strong commitment to providing quality service. Career minded and dedicated.

Previous experience with any of the following would be an advantage; Automated Software Testing Working within a DevOps model An understanding and good working knowledge of the following core elements; HTML SQL We offer: A challenging and progressive position within an international work environment Excellent remuneration pack (Pension Contribution, health care and life insurance) Equality Policy We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age. Privacy Please read our privacy policy pursuant to Art. 13 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on data protection (GDPR) published on our website, by clicking here: https://www.objectway.com/privacy/?lang=e #J-18808-Ljbffr