Software Engineer/Application Engineer

SOFTWARE ENGINEER/APPLICATION ENGINEER FOR 3RD PARTY APPLICATION OBS-TAX

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Randstad professionals are looking to find a responsible and open minded candidate who adds value to our client's IT team. Our client is an international Swiss Bank.

The candidate is responsible to integrate the changed/new functionality of the application OBS-Tax to the clients environment.

OBS-Tax is in the clients environment a tax calculation core used for the Swiss withholding tax agreements with Austria and Great Britain and for the Austrian Onshore withholding tax.

ROLE OVERVIEW

- Production support
- Supervision of production support processes
- Responsible for the incident-, change-, release-, and Problem management processes
- Defect analysing
- Write technical IT specifications and requirements for 3rd party software vendor
- GAP specification within existing documents
- End user- and second level support
- Develop database queries and ad-hoc reports
- Engineering and implementation
- Member of implementation projects
- Track 3rd party vendor on deliverables
- Analyze and understand customer business requirements
- Analyze and specify technical requirements
- Parameterization and customization of the application OBS-Tax
- Contribute to change- and release management processes
- System test and roll out of new functionality
- Documentation (operation manual, etc)

MANDATORY EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

- University degree or similar education preferably in information technology or information management
- Good technical knowledge about Linux and Windows
- Coding experience in Oracle SQL & PL/SQL and/or MS-SQL Server T-SQL
- Experienced in maintaining 3rd party application
- Experienced in leading/coordinating small or medium sized IT-teams
- Banking knowhow, especially about financial instruments (Bonds, Funds, FX, TOFF)

BENEFICIAL EXPERIENCE

- Knowhow about .NET 4.x
- Sound know how in transaction banking processes
- Knowledge about withholding taxing processes

LANGUAGES

- Very good German and English (w/s)

PERSONALITY
Somebody down to earth. responsibly, distinctive analytical thinking, well structured, solution-oriented, autonomous, propulsive, proactive, flexible, able to work under pressure, communicative, insistent.

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