Programmer Analyst

Societe Generale; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Societe Generale in Montreal seeks a skilled C# Developer to design, build, test, and deploy critical features for trading and settlement systems. You will contribute to trade booking, position management, and regulatory reporting for the FIC perimeter, working within an AGILE environment and collaborating with analysts and traders worldwide.

The role involves back-end development, requirements gathering, and delivering solutions from concept to production, with emphasis on continuous delivery

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of .NET / C# development experience.
• 2+ years of multithreading experience.
• Capability to transform business functionality into sustainable, maintainable, and reusable code.
• Proficiency in object-oriented programming.
• Understanding of agile development practices.
• Experience with developing and deploying RESTful services.
• Algorithmic skills.

Responsibilities

• Build applications for front office businesses and data flows.
• Define architectural frameworks for new developments.
• Manage end-to-end initiatives with users and business analysts; translate requirements into systems.
• Review and design architecture for new systems and governance models.
• Estimate effort and ensure timely delivery using agile and CD processes.
• Provide 2nd/3rd level support and assist in release rollouts.

Skills

C# / .NET

Multithreading

OO Programming

RESTful Services

Agile Development

Algorithmic Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

MongoDB

MQ Series

Oracle

Git

Jenkins

NuGet

MOQ

Job description

Reference 26000CGP

Responsibilities

ABOUT THE JOB: The aim of Global Business Service Unit (GBSU) Canada is to deliver day-to-day services to Société Générale investment and corporate bank units and their clients to accelerate their transformation. GBSU differentiates itself from competitors with the pace of the agile transformation delivered, spreading the technology and data culture, shortening the decision-making process, and adopting a true industrial approach, leveraging on different teams either transversal or aligned to the different sub business units.

In this central and dynamic role, you will contribute to the design, development, testing, and deployment of crucial features in applications used by our traders and operations across the globe, with a primary focus on New York.

As a C# Developer, we ask you to be versatile, display leadership qualities, and approach challenges with enthusiasm, delivering innovative solutions that support our business growth. Within our AGILE environment, your responsibilities include crafting and supporting software for trade booking, position management, settlement, and straight through processing of electronic trades within the Post Trade FIC (Fixed Income & Currencies) team. This involves active interaction with various upstream and downstream systems.

Your position revolves around developing a strategic trading tool for trade capture and regulatory reporting in FIC perimeter, covering back-end development. You actively participate in requirements gathering and design processes, collaborating with business analysts and leveraging your knowledge of finance and trading protocols. The role extends from conceptualization to delivery, adhering to agile, continuous delivery, and change management processes.

TECHNICAL STACK

C# | .NET | MongoDB | MQ Series | Oracle | GIT | Jenkins | Nuget| MOQ

WHAT WILL BE YOUR DAY-TO-DAY?

• Building applications for diverse front office businesses
• Ensuring seamless integration of data and flows with other trading and settlement applications.
• Defining architectural frameworks for new developments.
• Managing end-to-end initiatives by collaborating with users and business analysts, translating requirements into systems, proposing designs, and overseeing implementation
• Reviewing and designing architecture for new systems.
• Estimating effort and ensuring timely delivery using agile and continuous delivery methodologies.
• Thoroughly testing code and enforcing release management and change management processes.
• Owning 2nd and 3rd level support, assisting in release rollouts, and providing clear reports to clients and management
• Assessing risks, formulating contingency strategies, and collaborating with various teams
• Leveraging IT best practices to enhance development quality.
• Actively participating as a motivated and proactive member of the global team, effectively managing multiple streams of work concurrently.

Profile required

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Technical Skills Requirements

Must Have

• 3-5+ years of .NET / C# development experience
• 2+ years of multithreading experience
• Capability to transform business functionality into sustainable, maintainable, and reusable code.
• Proficiency in object-oriented programming
• Understanding of agile development practices
• Experience with developing and deploying RESTful services.
• Algorithmic skills

Nice-to-have

• Knowledge in messaging technologies (nats.io, RabbitMQ), network protocols, socket programming

Competency Requirements

Must Have

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in financial products or the financial industry
• Analytical skills
• Dynamic, detail-oriented, fast-learning capacity, and ability to work in a high-pressure environment.

Nice-to-have

• Knowledge in risk analysis and pricing
• Understanding of trading and settlement workflows for FIC products

Educational Requirements

• Must have: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Nice-to-have: Degree in finance.

Languages: French, English

LANGUAGE

Ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing, is a requirement as the person in this position will need to collaborate regularly with colleagues and partners in the United States.

Due to US Federal Securities law that may apply to this position, candidates who will apply for this position may be required to submit to an enhanced background screening, including the collection of their fingerprints by a third-party vendor selected by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA").

Business insight

Societe Generale is committed to offering an inclusive recruitment experience to all candidates. If you require any reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let our Recruiters know.

OUR CULTURE

At Societe Generale, we live by our 4 core values of commitment, responsibility, team spirit and innovation. We are engaged and demonstrate consideration for others. We act ethically and with courage. We focus our talent and energy on collective success. We experiment and propose new ideas. This way, we maximize our ability to serve client needs and anticipate market changes. Societe Generale is committed to strengthening bonds with colleagues, communities, and the world in which we live, because relationships are at the heart of how we operate. For more information about our Culture and Conduct initiatives, please visit this link (https://americas.societegenerale.com/en/careers/get-know-culture/)

D&I

Our Diversity & Inclusion Mission: Recruit, develop, advance, and retain a diverse workforce that is united in our efforts to enhance our competitive position and deliver innovative solutions to our clients.

Our Diversity & Inclusion Vision

• Engaged workforce that is demographically diverse in a way that reflects the communities in which we operate
• Inclusive culture and workplace that recognizes employees' unique needs and utilizes their diverse talents
• Engage our community and marketplace, and position the organization to meet the needs of all its clients

For more information about our D&I initiatives, please visit this link (https://americas.societegenerale.com/en/careers/get-know-diversity/)