Associate Engineer

TP ICAP Group; Belfast; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000

Job description

Group Overview:

The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure.

Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.

Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.

The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world’s leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform.

The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,300 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.

Role Overview:

The Associate Engineer (AE) will support the technical delivery abilities of the development teams across all disciplines from development, testing, dev-ops and business analysis, ultimately assisting in the delivery of production systems. The Associate Engineer will be proactive in seeking opportunities to learn and extend their knowledge in the engineering disciplines through supervised contribution supported by more senior team members.

The Associate Engineer will be passionate about software development, a self-learner, and keen to grow their technical skills to help their development team to be successful. They should be comfortable working in agile teams, foster transparent communication, have a commitment to quality, and a focus on getting things done.

Role Responsibilities:

1. With guidance from the wider team learn how to contribute effectively in an agile delivery team.
2. Act as a technical contributor on a team, demonstrating good technical competencies and a desire to improve those competencies to become a valued and independent contributor to the team.
3. With support from more senior team members participate in the elicitation, design, development and testing of software changes or features and support their successful deployment into a production setting.
4. With support from more senior team members be contribute to the elicitation and capturing of business requirements using techniques such as user stories and use cases.
5. With support from more senior team members be contribute to the development and execution of test cases and associated tasks to assess completion and quality of delivered user stories and use cases.
6. With support from more senior team members be capable of contributing to the delivery of complex systems.
7. Be able to communicate the architecture and principles behind a system to other members of the team.
8. Support the use of preferred planning and prioritisation tooling to capture and track deliveries, identify issues and help with iteration planning and prioritisation.
9. Support the team through active participation in estimation of work to be done by discussing requirements and potential solutions with other team members.
10. Learn to recognise patterns in the software systems so that it is possible to have meaningful conversations about wider system architecture with more senior team members.
11. Gain an appreciation of how to evolve systems towards target state architecture through the use of directed refactoring and prioritisation of deliveries.

Experience / Competences:

Essential:

1. Degree or equivalent industry experience.
2. Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle.
3. Knowledge of at least one full stack language as applicable to the role (such as Java, C#, C++, JavaScript, Python).

Desired:

1. Experience of the software development lifecycle in a professional capacity.
2. Experience of a general purpose scripting language (such as Python, Perl, Ruby).
3. Linux shell or Windows powershell knowledge.
4. Experience of using a programming language in a professional environment.
5. Experience of using agile tooling to support team delivery.
6. Experience of contribution to open source projects.

Location:

UK - City Quays - Belfast