Senior Associate, Software Engineering - Mainframe

BetaNXT

The Company

BetaNXT powers the future of connected wealth management infrastructure solutions, leveraging real-time data capabilities to enhance the wealth advisor experience. Combining industry expertise with the power of our proven Beta, Maxit, and Mediant businesses, we are focused on solving our customers’ most demanding integration challenges with flexible, efficient, connected solutions that anticipate their changing needs. Our comprehensive approach reduces enterprise cost, streamlines operations processes, increases advisor productivity, and enhances the investor experience. Together with BetaNXT, wealth management firms are transforming their platforms into differentiating assets that enable enterprise scale and stimulate commercial growth. For more information visit www.betanxt.com.

The Opportunity

BETA is a self-clearing securities processing solution for wealth management firms.  Built on years of expert knowledge and hands-on experience, BETA provides critical back-office controls including corporate action management, middle office exception management, and front office account management and trading tools for advisors.

We’re in search for an experienced and technology-oriented Senior Associate, Software Engineering - Mainframe that specializes in mainframe development. This is an individual contributor position, and the ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate analysis, definition, design, construction, testing, installation, and maintenance of software to meet agreed business needs.  On any given day you might be architecting new features for our customers, refactoring existing code, reviewing code and design, enforce secure coding practices, and seeing changes through to completion in a live environment.

About the Team

This role is part of client onboarding team, where they will develop/enhance software to onboard new clients on to Beta system and will process data for the same. In addition, the team members will also need to contribute to mainframe development activities for other mainframe teams while the onboarding activities are not heavy on them. This role requires data extraction/ data loading/data transmitting etc as part of onboarding new client.  

What You’ll Do

Using an analytical, engineering-focused approach and expert knowledge of programming languages to develop computer programs and ensure software is as functional and robust as the client or consumer needs.  Core responsibilities will include:

• Develop flawless solutions based on requirements with thorough coding and unit testing. 
•  Help improve our code quality through writing unit tests and automation. 
• Collaborate with teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions. 
• Work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution
• Ensure continued functionality of a program during maintenance and testing of software
• Revisit the development process to fix bugs or address client or consumer concerns
• Document each aspect of a system or application as a reference for future upgrades and maintenance
• Dive into difficult problems and successfully deliver results on schedule

• Creates, reviews, and maintains all required technical documentation/ manual related to assigned software to ensure supportability and reuse

Your Experience

• 3-5 years of professional and recent hands-on coding and software design; preferably in the financial services industry
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science / software engineering or equivalent
• A track record of projects completed on time – you are a flawless executor, not a procrastinator
• Experience with all phases of the software development life cycle, best practices and Agile Software Development
• Solid software design knowledge – you should know how to create software that’s extensible, reusable and meets desired architectural objectives.  
• Strong technical experience with specialist knowledge in Mainframe Technologies with experience in languages like COBOL, JCL, SQL etc and good to have knowledge on processing environment like CICS.

• Strong knowledge on DB2. Extensive design knowledge in DB2 Load/Unload process with nightly batch process using DB2 Load/Unload utility 

• Work autonomously and in teams, and will never back down from the challenges of scale

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. Therefore we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world−regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law.