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Application Team Leader BNY Mellon

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The job holder leads and coordinates the activities of a small (2-5 people) application development or support team. S/he provides application and user support, troubleshooting, application testing, and post-implementation review of new/changed applications. S/he also completes final testing for conformance to standards and trains staff in technical tools and skills. S/he also monitors the status of infrastructure resources and performs routine testing, documents testing results and analyzes infrastructure facilities.

S/he works with internal business groups on process improvement projects and is involved in testing, training and implementing of applications and/or systems, often leading these efforts. S/he has prior lead experience producing detail-level functional or operational requirement documentation and conducting inspections of required documents and quality reviews, and can perform these functions independently. S/he must be able to analyze client requirements, monitor project progress, identify potential roadblocks and keep projects on track

  • 30 % Leads the development teams on requirements, functional architecture, technical design, application test planning and implementation. Ensures user requirements are understood, fully documented and followed through to implementation. Has overall responsibility to the users during all phases of the project.
  • 15 % Provides application and user support, troubleshooting, application testing, and post-implementation review of new/changed applications.
  • 15 % Completes final testing for conformance to standards and adherence to design specifications.
  • 15 % Develops and maintains complete and accurate understanding of how the business unit conducts its business by meeting regularly with business areas and maintains detailed knowledge of the business's current technology and infrastructure. Works very closely with the user on a day-to-day basis to understand the business in order to offer sound technical alternatives and to ensure that technology staff are allocated optimally.
  • 10 % Applies experiences with existing software development processes to develop better processes to be used in the future. Actively influences software development process improvement initiatives.
  • 10 % Develops, enhances, and maintains quality application systems to support the client area.
  • 5 % Trains staff in technical tools and skills, as well as specific applications and their business functions to maximize their contribution to the team.

Qualifications

  • Job holder must have prior experience with the full software development lifecycle, with focus on the planning, analysis and technical design phases.
  • S/he must be familiar with the existing technology infrastructure and practices of own unit and understand planned platforms, strategies and key issues.
  • Must have prior hands-on experience with developing distributed applications
  • S/he must have prior experience with all aspects of user acceptance, load or performance testing and expertise in developing and executing testing tools on multiple applications.
  • Job holder must have experience with methods, tools and techniques for defining and documenting client needs. S/he must have exposure to preparing detail-level documentation of functional or operational requirements.
  • S/he must also have knowledge of activities, tasks, practices and tools associated with analyzing a variety of work processes and associated document and information flow.
  • S/he must have the ability to interpret and explain client's existing business processes.

Technical Experience/Qualifications

  • Proven experience of Sybase Development, Sybase SQL and Unix
  • A strong Analytical skillset
  • Project Management (related to small initiatives)
  • Powerbuilder experience would be an advantage
  • Java/Flex experience would be an advantage

Primary Location : Europe-Belgium-Brussels

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