Senior Consultant, Application

Job Description

Appian/Java Developer (Senior Consultant)For more than a century, Northern Trust has worked hard building our legacy of outstanding service, expertise and integrity. From a Chicago-based bank founded in 1889, we now have more than 20 international locations and 18,500 employees globally. We serve the world s most-sophisticated clients from sovereign wealth funds and the wealthiest individuals and families, to the most-successful hedge funds and corporate brands.We burnished our reputation as a global leader delivering innovative investment management, asset and fund administration, fiduciary and banking solutions enabled by sophisticated, leading technology. And through it all, we continually laid a solid, forward-looking foundation on which future generations can continue growing and achieving greater.As of September 30, 2019, Northern Trust Corporation had:

• $11.5 trillion in Assets under Custody/Administration
• $8.7 trillion in Assets under Custody
• $1 trillion in Assets under Management
• $130 billion in banking assets

Northern Trust is looking for a Appian/Java Technical Lead to join its Investment Client Admin team. This individual as part of an Agile development team, will be responsible for analysis, design and development of user interface and web services components that meet business and technical requirements.Major Duties

• Develops software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.
• Develop UI interface components, process flows, process events, agents and services, based on BPD documents that fit within technical framework, as outlined by Process Flow architects.
• Provides technical expertise at the highest level including training/leadership/guidance to other application or infrastructure architecture staff, ensuring secure coding and robust architecture guidelines are met.
• Thoroughly understands decision process issues of technology choice, such as capacities, response time, data interfacing, client server communication, industry standard technologies and new industry trends, etc.
• Provides in-depth technical consultation to the clients, partners, and IT management to develop plans and directions to assure the integration of corporate business area requirements.
• Works within an Agile scrum team framework. Taking stories and tasks through sprint, participates actively with product backlog refinement, daily standup and bi-weekly sprint boundary meetings.
• Consults with partners from systems and other business units regarding new techniques, practices, or technologies in data processing and the impact of proposed and ongoing projects.
• Provides L2 Support for production environment, assist in diagnosis and resolution of incidents, and maintain stability and integrity of application and systems.
• Develops and executes software deployment/migration plans and ensures robust quality software components are installed into production environment during change management cycles.

Knowledge/Skills

• Knowledge in Business Process Management concepts, architecture, BPMN Notation and process / task flows.
• Knowledge in micro-services architecture, gateway APIs, and BDD concepts.
• Experience with large and complex systems for both internal and external clients.
• Knowledge of current Java frameworks and Web server/Application servers.
• Deep understanding of security architecture web application security, identity management, access controls, authentication and authorization concepts.
• Strong technical leadership, mentorship, analytical and problem solving skills.
• A positive goal oriented attitude with a focus on delivery.

Required Skills:

• Expert level experience with Appian 18x/19x versions. Ability to write complex Appian SAIL Code. Just not drag and drop
• Strong understanding of Appian Objects such as Records, Reports, Tasks, News, Sites, Actions, Expression Rules, Constants, Query Rules, Web API, Interface Rules, CDTs, Process Models. Constants, Decisions, Integrations, Connected Systems, Data Stores, Groups, Feeds etc.
• Strong understanding of various authentication and authorization mechanisms such as Siteminder (SSO), oAuth 2.0, Basic, API Key Based Authentication, LDAP, SAML, Kerberos, Certificate Based PKI Authentication.
• Expertise with Web Services (JAX-WS), Service Oriented Architecture (SOAP/REST APIs) and messaging technologies MQ and JMS.
• Expertise with data exchange technologies XML, XSL Transforms, JSON.
• Expertise with app security scanning applications like AppSpider and CheckMarx.
• Expertise with version control (Git/Bitbucket/VCS/SVN)
• Expertise in diagramming tools for UML sequence/class/communication diagrams, data flow, system and process communication.

Recommended:

• Infrastructure Architecture (Infrastructure Architecture must include knowledge of Appian In-Memory KDB Engines, Sizing, Scaling Vertically/Horizontally)
• Scalar, In-memory databases (K2, Derby) and Message broker (kafka) knowledge.
• Knowledge of NOSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, HBASE).
• Familiarity with Design Patterns.
• Experience with regulatory reporting integration and applications.
• Experience as a solution architect and integration specialist for Financial Trading and Portfolio Management applications.
• Experience with Blackrock Aladdin, Eagle, FiServ front and back office products.

Qualifications.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Overall 10+ Years of Industry experience in IT.
• Experience in agile development methodology.
• Experience as hands-on software developer.

Additional Information,

Keyskills :
sapcustomer relationsdeliverysalessqlweb application securitybusiness process managementdata flowback officehedge fundsweb servicesprocess flowit management