SQL Developer

Illinois  ‐ Onsite
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Prestigious Financial Firm is currently seeking a SQL Developer for a 12 months or longer Consulting engagement.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the analysis, creation and/or maintenance of these applications by using the tools, methodologies and processes established to meet the needs of the organization.

As a team member with subject matter expertise, the Senior Application Developer will be an active member in the full life cycle of the delivery of solutions. This may include development, implementation, testing and supporting the solution. In addition, the individual must be committed to sharing knowledge and proactively working to foresee and avoid possible single points of failure within the team and the IT organization.

The following duties are generally representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all inclusive.

Application Development

  • Develop sound technical solutions to meet user requirements
  • Develop high level and detailed designs for assigned development initiatives
  • Develop and execute quality assurance routines to ensure quality of software
  • Ensure that system fixes/enhancements meet intended business needs according to defined requirements
  • Assist in the planning, development and deployment of software releases
  • Inform manager and user community of progress, issues and concerns
  • Resolve business-technology issues that impact production processes and system availability
  • Analyze, design and development changes to system batch processes as required
  • Take ownership for the resolution of technical issues for assigned third-party vendor applications
  • Plan, test, and deploy bug fix, enhancement, and upgrade software releases as required
  • Share knowledge of work products, including but not limited to developed code.

Business Analysis

  • Develop a strong understanding of business requirements; working with business users to define technical and process requirements
  • Identify and recommend best approach to solve business issues
  • Document business requirements and create detailed requirements for proposed solution changes. Analysis includes user requirements as well technology requirements.
  • Strong interaction with end users and business sponsors required
  • Periodically monitor support workflow and work with the Application team to prioritize and assign problems and incidents

Education and/or Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university
  • 7+ years of solid experience in Business Application Software design and development
  • Investment management industry experience highly preferred
  • Interpersonal/Communication/Language skills:
  • Excellent communication skills (oral and written)
  • Strong business acumen and service orientation
  • Client service-oriented
  • mathematical/analytical/reasoning skills:
  • Strong problem recognition and resolution skills
  • Analysis skills that can produce multiple viable solutions to a given issue
  • Develop and evaluate innovative solutions
  • Ability to implement solutions quickly once resolution identified

Technical Skills:

  • Experience with one or more of the following applications/tools a plus - Portia, Eagle PACE & Performance, Tableau, Microsoft Suite of reporting and analytical tools
  • Langages: C# .Net, Java experience a plus
  • Working knowledge of iterative and agile methodologies
  • Batch management tools: Tivoli Work Scheduler (TWS) or other comparable package
  • Scripting: PowerShell, Perl
  • RDBMS: Microsoft SQL Server - Stored Procedures, SSRS-Reporting Services, DTS/SSIS
  • Operating systems: Windows
Start date
n.a
Duration
12 months or longer
From
Request Technology-Stephanie Baker
Published at
18.02.2015
Project ID:
852703
Contract type
Freelance
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