Analyst Developer

At FNZ, you'll be part of an ever-evolving learning environment where collaboration and support are at the heart of everything we do. You'll work closely with Analyst Testers and other members of our high-performing team to produce world-class software that sets the standard in our industry.

Based in our Solution Centre in Auckland you will be responsible for the following:
**Analysis, Design & Development, Quality**
-   Assist the analyst tester in the creation of user story definitions and acceptance criteria and work within the constraints of the feature/user story to define the underlying design required to deliver these changes
-   Ensure the solution is well defined and fit-for-purpose. It must meet the requirements and work end-to-end. This will require a solid understanding of the underlying business processes involved in and surrounding the change
-   Provide solutions and recommendations for the resolution of technical issues that arise and ensure solutions meet the technical specs and design requirements;
-   Interpret complex financial business requirements and translate into high-transactional, high-availability, secure, working systems;
-   Design and build the highly intuitive user interface and interactive financial tools required by financial advisers and investors;
-   Develop real-time transaction processing systems that support millions of trades every day in investment securities in multiple world markets;
-   Work closely with our Solution Consultants and Analyst Testers to design and implement new functionality for our major institutional customers around the world.
-   Collaborate with other developers to make sure that the solutions developed are robust and in-line with the requirements;
-   Ensure code is designed and built in a reusable manner and able to build medium complexity features end-end.
-   Continually develop an understanding of the business functionality of FNZ platforms
-   Adhere to the defined procedures for code management, code reviews, coding standards, naming conventions and security standards;
-   Write automated unit tests for any newly created code; and
-   Perform manual testing to ensure any changes made to the system are of a high standard and the system hasn’t regressed.
-   Perform code reviews for other developers, when required, to ensure that proposed changes meet quality and best practice standards.

**Collaboration/Communication & Technology**
-   Promote the development team both internally and externally. Ensure that creative solutions, tight code, tough problems solved are called out appropriately to the developer community, and where they lead to visible outcomes, to the broader FNZ teams and clients; and
-   Collaborate with other developers to share knowledge, best practices, useful technology, and opportunities for cross-project system design / solutions.
-   Mentor new starters to ensure they understand both platform and SDLC.
-   Provide solution centre-wide training, as required, on topics of personal expertise.
-   Keep abreast of latest and/or relevant technologies, tools and methods. Identify adoption of technology, tools and methods best suited to FNZ;
-   Proactively resolve technical (environmental, coding and testing) issues that impede development progress. Assist in the resolution of technical issues when requested by other developers; and
-   Create novel solutions to problems by incorporating cutting edge technology or generic concepts.
-   First class bachelor’s degree or higher in Software Engineering or equivalent
-   At least 3’ years of relevant experience in finance technology.
-   Confident, and able to take initiative in a delivery-focused environment;
-   Hard-working and passionate about creating innovative solutions for customers.
-   Participated in end-end deliveries of software products.
-   Experience with Microsoft.NET development products, including.NET, C# and SQL Server;
-   Experience with web development, including ASP.NET, JavaScript and ReactJS;
-   Experience with the following legacy development products would be beneficial: ASP.NET MVC, VB.NET, legacy.NET Framework versions.
-   Familiarity with financial products and markets;
-   Understanding of web services;
-   Familiar with code analysis or automated testing tools.

**About FNZ**
FNZ was founded with a mission to use cutting edge technology to open up wealth - for end investors and business partners. FNZ has created wealth’s growth platform - a global, end-to-end wealth management platform. The platform includes app integrations, providing access to third-party, FNZ-delivered, or customer proprietary solutions.

This role is being recruited for FNZ Services (New Zealand) Limited, Full-time (40 hours per week), based in our Auckland Office. Salary band for the role is $110k to $160k based on qualification or experi