Senior Associate, Investment Data Engineering, Markit EDM

Job Overview:

The ideal candidate will have a mixture of analysis and development expertise within a financial environment using Markit EDM.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance, enhancement and support of existing functionality.
• Turning functional requirements into technical solutions.
• Adhering and enforcing development standards and best practices adopted by the development team.
• Analysis and data modeling.
• Maintaining effective internal client relationships.
• Delivering solutions on time and of a high quality.
• Design and document test plans for unit testing and integration testing.
• Optimize Markit EDM solutions for performance, throughput, troubleshooting and debugging.
• Engage with clients as well as developing directly from requirements.
• Challenge others, raise new ideas and standards.
• Develop solutions with Markit EDM and T-SQL.

Essential Skills

• 2+ years of experience working on Markit EDM v19 or higher including UI.
• Good knowledge of database technologies and architecture.
• Understand data modeling concepts and complex data relationships as it relates to business data and workflow.
• Experience working in an agile environment. Has a good understanding of and is an active contributor in team ceremonies.
• Experience translating business operating models to technical workflows.
• Desire to enhance technical skills and an appetite for best practice.
• Ability to manage client expectations and convey complex requirements in a clear and concise fashion.
• Ability to collaborate with other developers to identify conflicting or incomplete requirements.
• Knowledge of source control platform Git.
• Exposure to C# or Python.
• Experience with or knowledge of automated testing concepts and application.
• Work experience with source control and CI/CD tools.
• Ability to Positive approach coupled with a "can-do" attitude.
• Have the initiative, tenacity and commitment to see issue and problems through to resolution.
• Experience working with hybrid technology environments.
• Experience documenting processes and procedures.
• Good analytical and creative problem solving skills.
• Proven ability to plan workload(s) typically against a backlog of changing priorities.

We maintain a friendly, team-oriented environment and place a high value on professionalism, attitude and initiative.