About Schroders
JOB DESCRIPTION
We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.
We have around 6,000 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.
The Base
We are based at 7 Bryant Park in the heart of NYC. And we have everything we need to work flexibility. We operate a hybrd working model, with a requirment of a minimum of 3 days in the office. This is to sustain our culture of innovation, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and building relationships within the business. The role offers an excellent opportunity for individuals who are keen to learn more about the finance industry whilst building on their existing technical knowledge. They will work with local business stakeholders and global technology teams to develop both global and regional platforms.
The Team
The role offers an excellent opportunity for individuals who are keen to learn more about the finance industry whilst building on their existing technical knowledge. They will work with local business stakeholders and global technology teams to develop both global and regional platforms. As important members of our regionally aligned delivery team in the Americas, Associate Software Engineers (ASE) assist in the analysis, design, development, and testing of innovative solutions within an agile sprint framework.
ASE’s work includes, estimating task complexity and size, making informed technical design decisions within established architectural guidelines, and actively contributing to the continuous improvement of team processes. Your success relies on strong collaboration, clear communication, and flexibility to deliver outstanding platforms and applications with the assistance of your colleagues.
Position Overview
We are looking for individuals with:
- Development experience across a diverse range of applications such as web, database, and reporting/workflow platforms.
- A mindset that values constant improvement and collaboration.
- Analytical and logical thinking that can identify problems, interpret data, establish facts, and draw conclusions.
If you are passionate about working in a collaborative environment and leveraging technology to drive business success, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity.
Core Responsibilities
- Involved in the complete development lifecycle through analysis, coding and testing.
- Involved in ensuring user stories are delivered to the 'working system' definition of done within agreed sprint.
- Involved in ensuring committed development team deliverables are met.
- Contributing to agile planning, including sizing and parsing Epics and Features into Stories.
- Collaboration with business stakeholders, analysts and other technologists to effectively deliver features and user stories into working software that is fit for purpose.
- Working with colleagues from other agile teams and shared service teams to both communicate and accept dependencies.
- Writing unit tests, building and deployment scripts to support Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery platforms.
- Participate enthusiastically and effectively in agile ceremonies and other collaborative meetings.
- Ensuring continued improvement through conducting regular retrospective reviews, team feedback, and self-reflection.
Team Technologies
- C# / .Net.
- SQL database development skills and data migration/transformation services.
- Azure development skills, including Azure Data Factory.
- Blazor.
- DevOps, automated deployments, and source control tools (ideally Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy and GitHub Actions).
Development Methodologies
- Experience with Cloud based platforms.
- Interest in good software design principles and patterns, such as Dependency Injection, SOLID, and designing code for readability, scalability, and maintainability.
- Understanding and experience applying Agile principles.
- Knowledge and experience of development tools, frameworks and programming languages, required for delivery.
- Knowledge and experience contributing to the development of in-house technology solutions.
Other
- Candidates with an interest in finance will find this role particularly rewarding.
- Good DevOps experience including continuous integration and automated deployment; good scripting skills are a bonus. We use Azure DevOps for backlog management and build services, Git for source code management, GitHub Actions for deployment automation, and Confluence for technical documentation; experience with any of the above is a plus.
- Capable of remaining positive when under pressure.
- Able to prioritize work and limit work in progress to achieve optimal flow; must be able to manage stakeholder expectations and commitments.
- Friendly, approachable and collaborative team player who enjoys working with people from across the firm.
- Continuous improvement mind-set challenges the status quo and seeks self-improvement.
- Problem solver, comfortable taking the initiative in challenging and ambiguous circumstances.
- The ability to apply the principles of analytical and logical thinking to define problems, interpret data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
- Committed to increasing their skills and experience.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken. The ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences is highly valued.
- Able to engage with stakeholders in both Business and Technology.
