Sr. Applications Programmer

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About the Job

Our client has a requirement for 2 Senior Applications Programmers for a 6 Month Contract opportunity. The positions are located in Toronto, ON.

 

What makes this Special

Our client is one of the largest Banks in North America. With exponential growth and millions of customers and clients who are served through our various businesses: Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking, Wealth Management, U.S. Personal and Commercial Banking, and Wholesale Banking. Being part of this company is being part of a better Canadian service.

Role

Our client is looking for two Senior Applications Programmer to work with the Data Management Group. These they will provide data sets for various testings within various projects. The project is in midstream working on a 3rd major release. They would need to create SQL scripts, manipulate data, load, extract, verify and validate data. These individuals will need to create data relation for testing phase. They will be moving data from loading data from flat file into Oracle tables. They will also need to create objects in Oracle.

Responsibilities

• Develops code (writes software application programs).
• Develops and codes programs to integrate multiple subsystems.
• Identifies and recommends system enhancements to improve or expand customer services by anticipating customer problems and recommending solutions.
• Plans, schedules, and coordinates project design and implementation teams.
• Assists and trains others on technical or industry-related issues.
• Evaluates hardware or software product alternatives and makes recommendations.
• Develops detailed design specifications, creates and reviews code and assesses impact on other applications.
• Work closely with other team members to ensure consistency in coding standards and approaches and to optimize any synergy and re-use opportunities.
• Leading technical aspects of project from inception through to deployment.
• Participate in analysis and system design specification sessions.
• Documentation of design options and solutions according to System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology.
• Ensure that solutions adhere to development best practices and architectural principles.
• Apply analytical skills to resolve problems and deliver viable solutions.
• Anticipate obstacles and execute proactive approaches to issues.
• Active participation in issue resolution.
• Provide detailed development estimates to Project Manager for development effort as well as weekly status reporting and budget forecasting.
• Configuration management for the sub projects within the release.
• Responsible for coding, testing, packaging, deployment and support of builds as code is promoted from development, system, acceptance and production environments. May lead code reviews.
• Work closely with System Test Environment Management Team (STEMT) to ensure that environments are fully functional and that builds are properly deployed.
• Participate in development of test strategy, test plans, test cases and testing efforts (unit testing and integration testing of code).
• Provide technical support to business and testing team during testing phases. Track defects, defect triage and resolution.
• Data set up and environment shake down.
• Knowledge transfer within group.
• Ensure required documentation is housed in the project repository and that knowledge transfer has occurred to full time staff upon completion of contract term.

 

Requirements or Qualifications

• Strong SQL Loader Oracle 11g experience
• Strong PL/SQL Oracle 11g experience
• Strong SQL DML (data manipulation language) and DDL (data definition language) scripting in Oracle 11g experience
• Capability of performing some DBA tasks on Oracle 11g
• FTP (file transfer protocol) experience
• Financial/Banking experience
• Strong analytical skills
• Self-driven
• Team player

 

Qualified Candidates should have:

• Familiarity with IBM files and structure
• IBM 3270 file manipulation skills
  Ability to interface with mainframe
• SAS experience

 

How to Apply

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