About the Client
Our client is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. It anticipates and manages risk – from natural catastrophes to climate change, from ageing populations to cybercrime. The aim of the our client is to enable society to thrive and progress, creating new opportunities and solutions for its clients. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, where it was founded in 1863, the our client operates through a network of around 80 offices globally. It is organised into three Business Units, each with a distinct strategy and set of objectives contributing to the Group’s overall mission.
About the Role
As an experienced Front-End developer, you will have an unusual and great opportunity to join team, eager to deliver value and creative services in close cooperation with business colleagues.
Responsibilities
- Implement functional requirements and adapt them to event changing IT infrastructure
- Develop and maintain robust, powerful & scalable Java/HTML/Java Script solutions
- Participate in solution lifecycle in all its stages
- Use of modern technology, methods and standard methodologies to build solutions users love
- Provide technical competence and advice to business analysts and other colleagues
Requirements
- Have solid experience in all application tiers - user interface, client / server applications, backend processing and databases
- Sound knowledge and experience in HTML5, JS ecosystem (Angular, GWT, Node.js, TypeScript…)
- Hands-on with Java, JEE, SQL (ideally Oracle)
- Familiar with cloud computing (Cloud Foundry, Azure, AWS or similar)
- Can capture and document requirements and functional specifications
- Excellent verbal and written English skills
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Familiar with agile frameworks and tooling (Scrum, Kanban)
Nice to Have Skills
Anything of below is a plus:
- Working experience with Unix, Shell scripting or NoSQL databases (MongoDB…) or Webservices (REST, WSDL, …)
- High level understanding of the Asset Management business and processes
- Good understanding of Financial Markets products including:
• Key attributes of securities and derivatives product
• A solid understanding of how the products work operationally end to end
• Basic knowledge of valuation methods, sensitivities, performance metrics and attribution, market data etc.