Ab Initio/Java/Oracle Developer

AbInitio/Java Developer with Oracle & SQL Server required by leading Asset Management company to work alongside an existing team of AbInitio/Java developers in the Front Office area. There are a number of project related deliveries in the Fixed Income area planned for this year where the developer will be involved in the technical review, implementation and testing support of specific deliverables contributing to these projects. There is also BAU activity expected by the developer to maintain and provided bug fixes to existing developments.

Required Experience/Skills:
Database
Oracle 9i, Oracle P/L SQL Developer/Toad/CAST - (Required)
MS SQL 2000, MS SQL Query Analyser - (Required)
Sybase 12, Sybase SQL Advantage - (nice to have)
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)
Java and Webservices (Required)
Microsoft Visual Studio - Visual Basic, .NET - (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)

Other
Technical design and specification experience - (Required)
Monitoring (HPOpenview) and scheduling tools ($Universe) - (Nice to have)
Process recovery concepts - (Required)
Code reusability, shared libraries - (Nice to have)
Mandatory to have experience in a version control system, preferably one of those: MS Visual SourceSafe and/or Ab-Initio EME
Fluent in spoken and written English. French and/or Dutch advantageous

Business knowledge
Experience in banking/asset management environments - (Required)
Knowledge of financial instrument trading life cycle - (Nice to have)

Core Functional Responsibilities
Validation of functional specifications for development of Ab Initio, VB, and VBA interfaces.
Technical design specifications for interface development, exception handling and monitoring and failover requirements.
Unit testing of delivered components
Participation in code review with other developers.
Structured code development, versioning and promotion to environments.
Enhancements and bug fixes.
Provision of support to testing teams during testing cycles.
Participation in technical forums for knowledge gain and sharing.
Effective reporting to technical team leader & project manager
Ensure compliance with local development standards & methodologies