Technical Designer, Windows Communication, Banking, Brussels

OBJECTIVE:
My client is a Brussels based international bank. They have a new web-based corporate actions tool ( Application ) that allows customers to connect to the bank and use its services through a client communication interface. The bank is now seeking a Technical Designer, to enhance the design of the Application and support it.

TASKS:

- Act as Technical authority for the Application, following-up on the latest evolutions of the Microsoft platform.
- Be responsible for delivering and maintaining (in close collaboration with the IT Infrastructure teams and the outsourcing partner) the design and coding guidelines for distributed development.
- Be in contact with the IT Infrastructure teams to provide them with clear and complete information on the application technical context and physical topology.
- Cooperate actively with the IT Infrastructure teams to define the evolution of the technical frameworks used for the development of distributed applications.
- Work in close collaboration with Component Management and Tooling teams to define tooling evolutions and best practices (Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, Third party frameworks).
- Work in close collaboration with functional designers for delivering technical designs within the time and budget set and with the required quality (ie. according to business requirements and design guidelines).
- Be the representative of distributed development in the Design and Build Advisory board and be responsible to organise the communication towards the community of designers and builders working in the distributed environment.
- Deliver a set of high level designs in the area of complex projects or programmes and the corresponding budget and planning for project base-lining.
- Act as coach for several design and build experts.
- Cooperate in a constructive way with the stakeholders of all projects or maintenances impacting your domain of expertise (eg. review business requirements, support build and integration, ), and maintain your design products until the deployment with the same discipline as during the design phase.
- Trigger and take part in initiatives aiming at improving productivity of the design skill and the quality of the delivered products.
- Provide an efficient support to 1st and 2nd line support teams.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

Minimum 5years experience as a Designer.
- VB.NET;
- Web 2.0 - Javascript (JQuery), HTML, CSS;
- Team Foundation Server;
- Standard development patterns (eg. M.V.C.);
- Cross-platforms integration mechanisms (eg MQ Series, Connect Direct, etc);
- SQL Server 2008/2012;

Language: Englis