Title: Senior Developer - Core Java and PL/SQL
Location: US-NY-New York
Standard & Poor's is the world's premier provider of investment research, market indices, credit ratings, financial data, and fixed income research and analysis. With more than 10,000 employees and offices in nearly two-dozen countries, S&P is valued by investors and financial decision-makers everywhere for its analytical independence, market expertise and thought leadership. For 150 years Standard & Poor's has been an integral part of the global economic infrastructure. Its operations provide essential information to nearly every segment of the global financial community, creating the tools, analysis and research needed to make informed investment decisions.
Standard & Poor's is seeking a Lead Application Developer to be a key player in the analysis, design, implementation, and support a number of key business critical systems. This role requires a seasoned hands-on technologist who works effectively, both independently and collaboratively in a team environment. The ideal candidate must be delivery-focused and posses broad set of technology skills to actively evaluate and prototype new requirements and build solutions to support new processes as well as streamline existing business operations. The candidate must have financial industry background and will participate in day-to-day operational support, design, development, code reviews, unit testing, and deployment tasks.
* Design and develop industry-leading web applications/services to support key business needs
* Build components, and common services based on standard corporate development models, languages and tools
* Produce system design documents and lead technical walkthroughs
* Review business requirements and derive effort estimates
* Design and develop the interfaces with other internal applications.
* Perform day-to-day maintenance and project development activities including:
* Application code and programming
* CMS, server and database software upgrades
* New functionality and site-wide enhancements
* 3rd party tool integration and troubleshooting
* Respond to and resolve production issues
* MUST HAVE: Expert in both Core Java and PL/SQL technologies.
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering is required, or in lieu, a demonstrated equivalence in work experience.
* A minimum of 6 years of strong experience in application development using Java/J2EE technologies, such as: Ext-JS, JSF, JPA, Hibernate, Toplink, Velocity Templates, JMS messaging, JSP and JavaScript (JQuery etc).
* Superior knowledge of system architecture, object-oriented design, and J2EE framework and patterns.
* Understanding of financial markets and asset classes like Equity, Commodity, Fixed Income, Options, Index/Benchmarks
* Work experience with a financial data vendor a plus
* Excellent communication skills are essential, with strong verbal and writing proficiencies
The McGraw-Hill Companies is an equal opportunity employer. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment. For special accommodation due to disability, please email webmaster -at- mcgraw-hill.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate individual.
Job Type: Systems/Technology
