Backend Engineer (With Alternative Investments Background)

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Backend Engineer (With Alternative Investments Background) Location: Dallas, TX Hiring Type: Full Time

The Value You Deliver
Design and build a quality solution which aligns with the technology blueprint and best practices.
Solving the technology solutions by working closely with the tech leads, architects and contributing highly to the design strategy, coding standards with the peer developers for the quality deliverables
Using business knowledge and technology skills to translate the vision for divisional initiatives into business solutions by developing complex or multiple software applications.
Analyzing and recommending changes in project development policies, procedures, standards, and strategies to development experts and management.

The Skills that are Key to this role
Technical / Behavioral
Proven hands on experience with API Design and development of multi-layer architecture using Java/J2EE solutions and Spring framework
Expertise in GIT and branching strategies
Design and develop webservices, database schema, PL/SQLs, stored procedures, and transactional SQL within DB2 / Oracle databases;
Hands-on exposure in resolving technical roadblocks involving multiple technologies.
Ensuring the effectiveness of code reviews, unit testing, and integration testing completeness
Helping to coordinate the delivery of technical components across internal/external technical teams.
Collaborate with DevOps engineering to implement continuous integration and deployment using Jenkins and uDeploy tools; analyzing code quality issues using Sonar; implementing application resiliency procedures using HP Operations Orchestration; and process management using HP Service Manager and ServiceNow.
Giving to process-improvement initiatives in an effort to maximize velocity for the project te

The Skills that are Good To Have for this role
Proven technical skills as an individual contributor.
Able to be highly productive on an agile project delivery team.
Maintain trusted relationships with technical and business partners.

The Expertise We re Looking For
Bachelor s degree or higher in Computer Science Engineering/ Information Technology, Information Systems
8+ years of hands on technical experience
Strong team player that thrives in a collaborative environment
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Quick learner and a great team player
Experience in the financial services industry, preferably in the Asset Management Technology experience with exposure to Alternative Investing in areas like Derivatives, Liquid Alts and Private Equity.