Java/Abinitio Developer

Proteus Europe are currently looking for a Java/Ablnitio Developer for a 6 months contract based in Brussels.

Reporting to: Transversal Development Team Manager
Location: Brussels

Project context
The role will involve working 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.
The role is open now and initially required for six months.

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)

Please get your profile across to us right away if you may be interested.

Thank you.