Ab Initio Developer - Financial Services

Our client, a leading financial services firm based in Belgium, is currently hiring for an Ab Initio Developer to join their team on an initial 6 month contract basis.

You will be responsible for developing Ab Initio solutions for financial data to include static data and instrument data for the Front Office.

The ideal candidate will have:

Database

- Oracle 11/12c, Oracle P/L SQL Developer/Toad/CAST - (Required)
- MS SQL 2012, MS SQL Query Analyser - (Required)
- Sybase 12.5 or above, Sybase SQL Advantage - (Required)
- Stored procedures
- Cost optimisation
- Competent construction of SQL queries
- Any Datamodelling tools or techniques would be of advantage
- Consideration of performance and reusability during design and creation of interface table schemas

Development Tools

- UNIX Shell Scripting - (Required)
- AbInitio, batch, continuous and web service based development experience (Required)
- Experience in AbInitio component optimisation and version upgrades (Required)
- Microsoft Visual Studio (C# ) (Nice to have)
- Microsoft Excel VBA - (Nice to have)
- Message Queueing: IBM WebSphere MQ Series, AbInitio queues. Knowledge of standard message formats such as XML - (Required)
- Business Object 5.1 - (Nice to have)
- PERL Scripting
- J2EE, Eclipse
- DataStage 8

Version Control

Mandatory to have one or more of the following:

- MS Visual SourceSafe
- AbInitio EME
- CVS, SVN

Other

Technical design and specification experience - (Required)
Monitoring (HPOpenview) and scheduling tools ($Universe) - (Nice to have)
Realtime message based processing - (Nice to have)
Process recovery concepts - (Required)
Code reusability, shared libraries - (Nice to have)

Business

- Knowledge of trading dependencies, such as static data, instrument creation - (Required)
- Knowledge of trading life cycle - (Required)
- Knowledge of asset types and position keeping- (Nice to have)