Associate Analyst Developer

FNZ; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an Analyst Developer, where you'll have the opportunity to kickstart your career in a dynamic environment. This role is designed for junior developers eager to learn and grow, providing a platform to develop essential business and technical skills. You'll collaborate with experienced colleagues, engage in problem-solving, and contribute to innovative financial solutions. With a strong focus on teamwork and a culture that values growth and diversity, this position offers a unique chance to make a meaningful impact while advancing your career in the financial services sector.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher with a minimum A- average.
• Some experience with programming languages and web development.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate in analysis and design processes for user stories.
• Apply technical skills to develop secure, high-availability systems.

Skills

Problem-Solving Skills

Initiative

Team Collaboration

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Postgraduate Degree

Tools

Microsoft .NET

C#/VB.NET

ASP.NET

SQL Server

JavaScript

ReactJS

jQuery

Job description

Role Description

This role has been created to:

• Serve as a point of entry for junior and early-career developers into the Analyst Developer job family.
• Provide developers with a launching pad to learn and develop the business, technical and professional skills required to be an effective developer at FNZ.
• Support delivery obligations to customers and internal stakeholders.

Specific Role Responsibilities

Analysis and Design

• Collaborate in the analysis and design process by assisting the analyst tester in the creation of user story definitions and acceptance criteria.
• Work within the constraints of the feature/user story to define the underlying detail of the required changes.
• Participate in functional review and demonstration of feature build to ensure solutions are well-defined and fit for purpose.
• Apply your problem-solving skills by being involved in defect analysis to understand the root cause and to define the correct solution.
• Work with senior colleagues to debug and provide solutions for technical issues that arise.

Development

• Apply your technical skills to complex financial business requirements and translate into high-transactional, high-availability, secure, working systems.
• Work with experienced colleagues to design and build the highly intuitive user interface and interactive financial tools required by financial advisers and investors.
• Adhere to guidelines and practices surrounding non-functional requirements.
• Write automated unit tests for any newly created code.

Quality

• Participate in code reviews to gain feedback on your technique from senior peers.
• Adhere to the defined procedures for code management, code reviews, coding standards, naming conventions, and security standards.
• Perform manual unit testing to ensure any changes made to the system are of a high standard and error-free.

Collaboration/Communication

• Engage in the collaboration and communication channels in the organisation.
• Collaborate with other developers to share knowledge, best practices, useful technology, and opportunities for cross-project system design/solutions.
• Promote sharing of knowledge and skills by being involved in the various cross-organisation groups, guilds, and communities of practice.

Technology

• Stay up to date with industry practices, new technologies, tools, and methods.
• Identify technical issues that impede development progress and raise with colleagues and leaders.

Functional Area Responsibilities

Analyst Developers at FNZ are all-rounders who can work across the full stack. This role involves working with complex business requirements in a wide range of functional areas in the financial services and platform domain.

Experience required

Primary requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (min A- average for under-graduate, first class for post-graduate).
• Confident, and able to take initiative in a delivery-focused environment.
• Independent, self-directed working style.
• Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic fast-paced industry.
• Enjoy working as part of a high-performance team.
• Hard-working, innovative and takes pride in their work.
• Passionate about creating innovative solutions for customers.

Secondary requirements

• Some experience with one or many programming languages.
• Experience with modern and legacy development products and frameworks: Microsoft .NET, C#/VB.NET, ASP.NET, MVC, WebAPI, SQL Server, Javascript, ReactJS, jQuery.
• Experience with web development.
• Familiarity with financial products and markets.
• Understanding of web services and enterprise integration patterns.
• Familiar with tools for code analysis and automated testing.

About FNZ Culture

Our culture is what drives us. It's at the heart of who we are and everything we do. Our ambition is to create a culture for growth, one that opens up limitless opportunities for our employees, customers, and the wider world.

• Customer obsessed for the long-term
• Think big and make an impact
• Act now and own it all the way
• Challenge, commit and win together

Read more about The FNZ Way and our values: www.fnz.com/culture

Opportunities

At FNZ, we recognise that diversity, equity and inclusion are important factors contributing to our success. Recruitment decisions at FNZ are made in a non-discriminatory manner.

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms.