Company Description
Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.
We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential
Job Description
Your Team
Master Evolution team contribute to the transformation of the Avaloq Banking Standards (ABR/S) implementation into a standardized and industrialized process.
Bolstered by banks’ increasing demand for lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and quicker time-to-market, the Avaloq Banking Standards yield competitive advantage with production-proven customization thereby allowing Avaloq customers to focus on product and services differentiation.
Your Mission
Reporting to the Domain Owner of Master Governance, the incumbent will be responsible to:
- Develop moderately complex software programs in Avaloq scripting language and PL/SQL for ABR/S, consistently following prescribed ABR/S coding standards and in accordance with applicable software development methodology and release processes
- Consult Avaloq product documentation to learn new ways to implement product functionality and maintain close awareness of new and emerging technologies and their potential business application
- Implement reliable solutions to a variety of problems using sound problem solving techniques
- Perform technical root cause analysis and outlines corrective action for given problems
- Evangelize ABR/S architectural standards/principles, reusability design standards and leading practices
- Collaborate with ABR/S architect to ensure that the design takes advantage of the latest customization capability
- Utilise Avaloq ICE workbench (Eclipse–based) as software development toolkit for customization and scripting of ABR/S
- Lead consultative discovery workshop sessions with stakeholders to gather requirements and critical business challenges
- Collaborate and adds value through participation in peer code reviews, providing comments and suggestions
- Serves as a mentor to developers in Manila offshore development centre
- Estimate level of effort, evaluate new options of similar technology, offer suggestions to improve processes, and provide comments on some ABR/S design aspects
- Consider the art of the possible, compares various architectural options based on feasibility and impact, and proposes actionable plans
- Work collaboratively and professionally with other Avaloq associates in cross functional teams to achieve goals
- Apply a sense of urgency, commitment and focus on the right priorities in developing solutions in a timely fashion
Qualifications
What you need
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Math or Physics or a technical field win a minimum of 3 consecutive years of relevant experience
- Must demonstrate proficiency and possess experience necessary to develop moderately complex software in PL/SQL and object-oriented languages e.g. Java or .NET.
- Must have experience with using, tuning, and deploying solutions on a commercial database such as Oracle, SQL Server or DB2.
- Must have experience working with and developing design and requirements documents and artefacts such as Entity Relation Diagrams, User Stories, Use Cases, etc.
- Must have excellent written and oral communication skills, including conducting presentations to teams and to customers
- Solid understanding of Agile software development process
- Strong critical thinker with problem solving aptitude
- Strong conceptual and analytical skills - demonstrating outside-the-box problem solving skills
- Ability to analyse and operate at various levels of abstraction
- Motivated and result oriented in a fast-paced environment
- Must be able to work independently and provide proactive leadership in a complex environment with multiple teams
You will get extra points for the following
- Knowledge in core banking applications and knowledge in banking operations
- Experience of JIRA/Confluence
- Familiar with API creation and RESTful services, containerization technologies such as Docker or equivalent, CI/CD
- Avaloq Certified Customization Professional (Major in Core)
Additional Information
We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.
In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.
We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.
Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.
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