Senior Oracle Developer

Oracle Developer needed to strengthen development team in the IT Credit Risk Wealth Management area for investment bank. The applications are used to support the business in deriving the right credit decisions and monitor the credit usage in day-to-day business.

The project that is looking for support is the credit decision tool used in Switzerland - Legacy application. All credit requests are being evaluated and determined using this tool. The Legacy application has been in use for more than 10 years, and the performance is no longer meeting the business requirements.

The majority of the work will be, together with the existing team, optimising the application to achieve a better performance.

Task & Responsibilities:
- Together with the existing IT team, analyse the current performance issues and define a solution to improve the current solution.
- Following that the proposed solution must be implemented and tested.

Deliverables:
- Successful implementation of the performance improvements

Required Experience/Skills:
(Including language and soft skills)
- Deep technical skills in the areas of Oracle development incl. performance tuning
- Deep technical skills in the areas of Oracle database administration
- Broad technical skills in the areas of JEE, WebSphere, C++, Oracle.
- Experience in performance testing of large applications: Defining strategies for stress, concurrency and volume test and execution of those
- German skills (reading and speaking a must, written of advantage)