Associate Analyst Developer

Role Description

This role has been created to:

1. Serve as a point of entry for junior and early-career developers into the Analyst Developer job family.
2. Provide developers with a launching pad to learn and develop the business, technical and professional skills required to be an effective developer at FNZ.
3. Support delivery obligations to customers and internal stakeholders.

Specific Role Responsibilities

Analysis and Design

1. Collaborate in the analysis and design process by assisting the analyst tester in the creation of user story definitions and acceptance criteria.
2. Work within the constraints of the feature/user story to define the underlying detail of the required changes.
3. Participate in functional review and demonstration of feature build.
4. Apply your problem-solving skills by being involved in defect analysis to understand the root cause and to define the correct solution.

Development

1. Apply your technical skills to complex financial business requirements and translate into high-transactional, high-availability, secure, working systems.
2. Work with experienced colleagues to design and build the highly intuitive user interface and interactive financial tools.
3. Adhere to guidelines and practices surrounding non-functional requirements.
4. Write automated unit tests for any newly created code.

Quality

1. Participate in code reviews to gain feedback on your technique from senior peers.
2. Adhere to the defined procedures for code management and coding standards.
3. Perform manual unit testing to ensure any changes made to the system are of a high standard and error-free.

Collaboration/Communication

1. Engage in the collaboration and communication channels in the organisation.
2. Collaborate with other developers to share knowledge and best practices.
3. Promote sharing of knowledge and skills through various cross-organisation groups.

Technology

1. Stay up to date with industry practices, new technologies, tools and methods.
2. Identify technical issues that impede development progress and raise with colleagues.

Experience Required

Primary Requirements

1. Bachelor’s degree or higher (min A- average for under-graduate, first class for post-graduate).
2. Confident, and able to take initiative in a delivery-focused environment.
3. Independent, self-directed working style.
4. Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic fast-paced industry.
5. Enjoy working as part of a high-performance team.
6. Hard-working, innovative and takes pride in their work.
7. Passionate about creating innovative solutions for customers.

Secondary Requirements

1. Some experience with one or many programming languages.
2. Experience with modern and legacy development products and frameworks.
3. Experience with web development.
4. Familiarity with financial products and markets.
5. Understanding of web services and enterprise integration patterns.
6. Familiar with tools for code analysis and automated testing.