Senior Software Engineer - Bangalore

Job Description:

SmartStream is embarking its most exciting journey in recent times. To continue to service and support the world's top banks and asset managers we are constantly innovating to cement our industry leading position for the next decade. Working with our other product development centres in Bangalore, Mumbai, and Jacksonville. We are building modern software using constantly evolving agile and extreme practices. Independent autonomous teams build, maintain and support services which allows them to develop expertise in technology and business domains. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to influence others and to personally develop in a friendly and welcoming environment. We welcome engineering professionals from a variety of backgrounds to add to our diverse teams in our Bangalore development center. Java, Hibernate and Spring are our primary backend technologies with smartclient and JavaScript in our frontend.

Job Responsibilities:

• Involved in the complete product lifecycle from initial requirements definition, design, development, and solution configuration through to deployment.
• Agile approach using Behaviour Driven Development and Continuous Deployment technologies
• Support on-going maintenance and fixes of SmartStreams solutions and in-house toolkits.
• Follow SmartStream's development process and quality standards.
• Responsibility for developing scalable and robust solutions, which meet the high performance and availability standards of global financial institutions.
• 5 to 9 years experience developing and implementing enterprise-scale reports and dashboards, including:- Working with users in a requirements analysis role
• Extensive experience with data warehouse implementations
• Knowledge of logical and physical data modelling concepts (relational and dimensional)
• Proficiency with Tableau/Qlik Sense/Power BI product suite
• Performance tuning experience related to reporting queries required
• Understanding of data integration issues (validation and cleaning), familiarity with complex data and structures
• Excellent interpersonal (verbal and written) communication skills are required to support working in project environments that includes internal, external and customer teams
• Requires strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities.
• Programming / scripting experience and knowledge of software development life cycle is preferred.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and assess and adjust quickly to changing priorities.
• Participate in business analysis activities to gather required reporting and dashboard requirements.
• Translate business requirements into specifications that will be used to implement the required reports and dashboards, created from potentially multiple data sources.
• Participate with other specialist to convert legacy reports (primarily Business Objects) to Cognos BI solutions.
• Transition developed reports and dashboards to the Operations & Support team.
• Provide support as required to ensure the availability and performance of developed reports and dashboards for both external and internal users.
• Ensure proper configuration management and change controls are implemented for your sphere of influence.
• Provide technical assistance and cross training to other team members.
• Provide training and assistance to users for generation of ad hoc reports.
• Design and implement technology best practices, guidelines, and repeatable processes
• Must be able to perform duties with moderate to low supervision.
• Knowledge of Big Database and ETL skills is added advantage.
• Requires leadership qualities to mentor junior members of the team.

Key Skills:

• Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Power BI or SAP Business Objects
• Practical experience of SQL in relational databases like Oracle/ SQL Server and Application Server Middleware
• Good communication skills
• Good analytical skills

Desirable Skills:

• Effective prioritization
• Ability to build good relationships with stakeholders
• Focus on Delivery and Customer Service
• Team worker
• Calm, methodical approach to problem solving

Educational Qualification:

• Engineering Graduate with Computer Science / Information Technology background or similar

Experience:

• 6 to 9 years of software engineering experience
• Experience developing in a software vendor environment is desirable but not required
• Financial software experience would be a bonus, but is not expected
• Need to have a can do attitude to problem management.
• Comfortable in a fast-moving environment with multiple customers and tasks.
• Works well in a busy environment and takes full ownership.
• Should be a go-getter

Equality Statement:

SmartStream is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity and following practices which are free from unfair and unlawful discrimination.