Associate Director - Technology

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As the world works and lives faster, FIS is leading the way.  Our fintech solutions touch nearly every market, company and person on the planet. Our teams are inclusive and diverse. Our colleagues work together and celebrate together. If you want to advance the world of fintech, we’d like to ask you: Are you FIS?

About the role:.

Plan and manage application development and client delivery activities for an assigned application portfolio that may include small and simple software applications, moderately complex software applications or components of large and complex software applications.

About the team:  

Electronic trading applications used by investment bank and institutions for money or fund management by Asset managers, Retail, Hedge funds, Investor ​

VGM Key Products:​

• Trading Line Handler: The Trading Line Handler is the FIS Exchange-specific component that handles communication between the Trading Server (SLE) V5 Core and the Exchange.​
• Market Data Handler: Data feeds are broadcast in a format that is unique to the Exchange. The Source Market Data Server (MDS) receives this information directly from the Exchange and converts it to V5 format so that this information can be broadcast to FIS components

Technologies we use to develop our products are: - C++, Webtools /Client Portal (Release), Checkmarx, Testrail,

Major Clients USB, JPM, MACQ, BOCI

What you will be doing:

• Designs and develops software product applications for market sale or large-scale proprietary software applications for internal use.
• Manages full software development lifecycle including testing, implementation, and auditing.
• Performs product design, bug verification and beta support which may require research and analysis.
• Resolves critical issues and contributes to the business unit/area development.
• Manages work efforts of managers/supervisors with responsibility for hiring, firing, performance appraisals and pay reviews.
• Identifies and allocates technical resources, e.g., programmers, business analysts to client projects within Development. Includes a mix of FTEs assigned to the development organization and purchased resources from other lines of business.
• Forecasts resource needs based on an analysis of both portfolio and projected client spend.
• Maximizes both utilization and profitability of assigned team of resources’ billable time.
• Ensures base applications meet appropriate quality standards.
• Adheres to the departmental application development and client delivery process standards.
• Provides input on product direction to product managers.
• Coordinates with industry compliance consultants and product managers to verify applications meet regulatory compliance.
• Ensures proper application of technology.
• Ensures base applications meet appropriate quality standards.
• Other related duties assigned as needed.

What you will need:

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization, e.g., executive, management, individual contributors
•  Excellent analytical, decision-making, problem-solving, team and time management skills
• A bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science or other related discipline or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience.
• Three to eight years software engineering work experience in C++11, scripting, Python, Multithreading, Linux, Data structure and Algorithm.
• Knowledge of financial services industry
• Knowledge of end-to-end systems development life cycles, e.g., waterfall, iterative and other modern approaches to software development
• Knowledge of standards relevant to the software industry , e.g., ISO, CMM, Six Sigma
• Knowledge of banking practices, regulations and operations within assigned line(s) of business
• In-depth understanding of design patterns and their application
• Fluency in developing and understanding sequence diagrams, class models, etc.
• Proficiency in solutions design and requirements definition disciplines leveraging model driven design based tools and techniques including conceptual solution component models, business process models, use cases, etc.

Added bonus if you have:

• Ability to persuade and influence others on the best approach to take
• Ability to estimate work effort for project sub-plans or small projects and ensure the project is successfully completed
• Positive outlook, strong work ethic, and responsive to internal and external clients and contacts

What we offer you:
At FIS, you can learn, grow and make an impact in your career.

• Extensive Health Benefits Program along with the Family Protection Plan
• Best-in-class career mobility options across the globe
• Award-winning learning offerings for career development
• Adaptable home - office work model
• Opportunity to work with global teams and clients

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Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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