Senior Java Developer

About Wolters Kluwer Financial Services
Whether complying with regulatory requirements or managing financial transactions, addressing a single key risk, or working toward a holistic enterprise risk management strategy, Wolters Kluwer Financial Services works with more than 15,000 customers worldwide to help them successfully navigate regulatory complexity, optimize risk and financial performance, and manage data to support critical decisions. Wolters Kluwer Financial Services provides audit, risk, finance and compliance solutions that help financial organizations improve efficiency and effectiveness across their enterprise.

With more than 30 offices in 20 countries, the company’s prominent brands include: FRSGlobal, Riskpro, FinArch, ARC Logics for Financial Services, Bankers Systems, VMP Mortgage Solutions, AppOne, GainsKeeper, Capital Changes, NILS, AuthenticWeb and Uniform Forms. Wolters Kluwer Financial Services is part of Wolters Kluwer, a leading global information services and solutions provider with approximately 19,000 employees worldwide.

As a Senior Java Developer joining the Core Development organization in Lausanne, you will integrate a team of passionate engineers and analysts, specializing on state-of-the-art technologies, complex financial algorithms and performance critical software.

You will participate to the development of new functionalities and maintenance of our financial risk management software. The role involves both understanding and translation of business requirements into software specification, and implementation of these functionalities.

You will enjoy working in a Java-stack development environment and interact with colleagues from other Wolters Kluwer location worldwide. Once comfortable with our products and if you like it, you will also face clients, support sales and our on-site consultants.

Key responsibilities

Participate in all stages of new functional developments: depending on your interests, designing solutions, implementation, testing and documentation.

Participate in existing functional features maintenance.

Unblock critical issues, sometimes on customers' production environments, and liaise with Development colleagues for longer term solutions/fixes.

Qualifications and Skill Set
Essential:

Excellent communication skills, as this position involves a high degree of interaction with both development team members and business specialists

Candidate should be a team worker

Knowledge of financial risk concepts and mathematics (basic level, but motivation to learn is ok)

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Physics, Financial Mathematics or related field

At least 5 years of experience in object-oriented programming and more specifically Java (Design patterns, etc…)

Fluent in English, both writing and orally.

The following points reflect what we do and how we work.

Knowledge of Agile Software Development and Management methods and ability to excel within an "Agile" environment (i.e. user stories, iterative development, continuous integration, continuous delivery, shared ownership, test-driven development, etc.)

Basic database knowledge

Working experience on complex project architectures

Knowledge of source code control management systems (i.e. TFS, Git, Hudson, Team City, Subversion, etc) and code branching/merging strategies

Personality / Personal traits

Excellent communicator (written and oral) and excellent interpersonal skills

Responsible, methodical and organised

Team player

Flexible and open to change

Our Offer
We offer you a position in a team-based, international, leading financial organization. Within Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, you will find straightforward communication, a fast-paced work environment with challenging projects, interesting career opportunities and a competitive salary package.

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Contact person

Lize Hancke - Talent Acquisition Specialist

About the company

Wolters Kluwer NV is an American Dutch information services company.