Programmer Analyst - XOne

Overview

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The aim of Global Banking Technology & Operations (GBTO) Canada is to deliver day-to-day services to Société Générale investment and corporate bank units and their clients to accelerate their transformation. GBTO differentiates itself from competitors with the pace of the agile transformation delivered, spreading the technology and data culture, shortening the decision-making process, and adopting a true industrial approach, leveraging on different teams either transversal or aligned to the different sub business units.

In this central and dynamic role, you will contribute to the design, development, testing, and deployment of crucial features in applications used by our traders and operations across the globe, with a primary focus on New York.

As a C# Developer, we ask you to be versatile, display leadership qualities, and approach challenges with enthusiasm, delivering innovative solutions that support our business growth. Within our AGILE environment, your responsibilities include crafting and supporting software for trade booking, position management, settlement, and straight through processing of electronic trades within the Post Trade Equity team. This involves active interaction with various upstream and downstream systems.

Your position revolves around developing a strategic trading tool for trade capture and regulatory reporting in Equity Derivative, covering back-end development. You actively participate in requirements gathering and design processes, collaborating with business analysts and leveraging your knowledge of finance and trading protocols. The role extends from conceptualization to delivery, adhering to agile, continuous delivery, and change management processes.

Technical Stack:

C# | .NET | MongoDB | MQ Series | Oracle | GIT | Jenkins | Nugget | MOQ

Day-to-day

Primary responsibilities include:

• Building applications for diverse front office businesses
• Ensuring seamless integration of data and flows with other trading and settlement applications.
• Defining architectural frameworks for new developments.
• Managing end-to-end initiatives by collaborating with users and business analysts, translating requirements into systems, proposing designs, and overseeing implementation
• Reviewing and designing architecture for new systems.
• Estimating effort and ensuring timely delivery using agile and continuous delivery methodologies.
• Thoroughly testing code and enforcing release management and change management processes.
• Owning 2nd and 3rd level support, assisting in release rollouts, and providing clear reports to clients and management
• Assessing risks, formulating contingency strategies, and collaborating with various teams
• Leveraging IT best practices to enhance development quality.
• Actively participating as a motivated and proactive member of the global team, effectively managing multiple streams of work concurrently.

Qualifications

Skills and Qualifications

Technical Skills Requirements

Must Have:

• 3-5+ years of .NET / C# development experience
• 2+ years of multithreading experience
• Capability to transform business functionality into sustainable, maintainable, and reusable code.
• Proficiency in object-oriented programming
• Understanding of agile development practices
• Experience with developing and deploying RESTful services.
• Algorithmic skills

Nice-to-have:

• Knowledge in messaging technologies (nats.io, RabbitMQ), network protocols, socket programming

Competency Requirements

Must Have:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in financial products or the financial industry
• Analytical skills
• Dynamic, detail-oriented, fast-learning capacity, and ability to work in a high-pressure environment.

Nice-to-have:

• Knowledge in risk analysis and pricing
• Understanding of trading and settlement workflows for Equity Derivative products

Educational Requirements

• Must have: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Nice-to-have: Degree in finance.

Languages: French, English

Ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing, is a requirement as the person in this position will need to collaborate regularly with colleagues and partners in the United States.

Why join us

OUR BENEFITS:

WHAT WE DO DIFFERENTLY AT SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE

Competitive compensation & benefits offering, including but not limited to:

• Minimum of 20 Vacation days + 4 personal days
• Supportive Maternity, paternity, parental and adoption leave policy
• Health spending and personal spending accounts with 75+ eligible reimbursement categories (health, training, electronics etc.)

Fully sponsored virtual healthcare assistance and Employee Assistance Program to you and your immediate family

Various Employee Resource Groups to engage with such as Pride and Allies, American Women Network, Black Leadership Network, One planet, etc.

• Culture of continuous development by encouraging our employees various training programs

Business insight

Societe Generale is committed to offering an inclusive recruitment experience. If you require any reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let our Recruiters know.

OUR CULTURE:

At Societe Generale, we live by our 4 core values of commitment, responsibility, team spirit and innovation. We are engaged and demonstrate consideration for others. We act ethically and with courage. We focus our talent and energy on collective success. We experiment and propose new ideas. This way, we maximize our ability to serve client needs and anticipate market changes. Societe Generale is committed to strengthening bonds with colleagues, communities, and the world in which we live. For more information about our Culture and Conduct initiatives, please visit the culture page.

HYBRID WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Societe Generale offers a hybrid work arrangement that allows remote and on-site work to promote interaction while adhering to SG protocols. Hybrid arrangements vary by business area.

Diversity and Inclusion

Societe Generale is an equal opportunity employer and we are proud to make diversity a strength for our company. We are committed to recognizing and promoting the talents and achievements of our employees and staff, regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, and any other characteristic or status protected under applicable law. We strive to write postings inclusively and welcome all gender identities.