Software Engineer 10 Month FTC

Societe Generale is one of Europe's leading financial services groups and a major player in the economy for over 160 years, we support 25 million clients every day with more than 126,000 staff in 65 countries

Our Group draws on our European roots to develop our business internationally. Our unique geographic positioning enables us to connect Europe and Africa with major global financial centres in Asia and the Americas.

The Group combines financial strength, proven expertise in innovation and a sustainable growth strategy with the objective of creating value for all our stakeholders. We seek to be a trusted partner in the projects of those building tomorrow's world today.

About the Team

The Groups strategic roadmap, in addition to GBIS, has placed digital and innovation at the core of its strategic plan to ensure improved operational efficiency (automation, platform strategy, digitalization, re-useability, scalability, process mutualization) and reliance on digital and data-first technology by leveraging on the SG Markets Digital platform offering.

The GBTO/SGM team (ex. Chief Digital Office) is comprised of 5 global org streams and their primary mission is to enhance the digital journey of Socit Gnrales clients and staff across the SG Markets platform, by ensuring its compatibility with GBIS numerous use cases and by mutualising technical components and transversal business services to reduce our information system complexity.

SGM/DPO in the UK, as part of the Maintain stream, (ex CSY/RPM) also provides development, delivery, support and maintenance for all non-core UK applications from various corporate business lines and transversal support functions. It manages around 15+ UK and EMEA applications sponsored by GBIS, COOE, COOM, DFIN, GTS, GTPS, HUMN, SAFE and SEGL. The team provides in house solutions when no existing global solution is available.

Summary of Key Purposes of the Role:

As a transversal role and will take in charge the business analysis, the development/ enhancement of existing and new solutions, manage internal projects as well as managing the vendor relationship for our local business partners / sponsors (Facilities, Corporate Social Responsibility, Compliance, Finance ...)

         Gather& Analyse business requirements by liaising with Product Owners/ Business Partners

         Writing detailed functional specifications (Epics, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria) by interacting with the Product Owner

         Participate in testing, deployment, and production activities of the team to ensure production stability, applying the best practices provides by the production practices league.

         Ensure vendor relationship and coordination with technical consultant as part of project/support.

Key Responsibilities:

Development

         Develop code snippets and scripts as and when needed

         Participate in updating code where needed

Testing

         Perform end-to-end testing by defining test scenarios, documenting defects, and ensuring that the product aligns to the target visions before it used operationally by the business.

Production support

         Supports inquiries, issues, and major events to identify root cause and resolution.

         Ensures Support processes and practices given by the Support Chapters are applied by the team.

Deployment

         Assist in drafting release notes.

         Develop Release Scripts and manage tools used for releases.

         Verifies that entry criteria for each release candidate is fulfilled prior to deployment.

         Plan and execute manual and automated deployments to staging, QA and PROD environments.

         Lead deployments, develop run books, develop contingency and rollback plans.

         Execute deployments to environments, while in parallel supporting ongoing application development.

Technical

Essential:

         Familiarity with bash/command line scripts

         Application and Infrastructure /Middleware Support and Maintenance

         Working  Knowledge of Windows/Linux Server administration

         Understanding of Web Security, Authentication, HTTPS

         Working  Knowledge of CI/CD, Teamcity, GitHub and Jira

Desirable:

         Knowledge of Software development

         C# .NET, TDD

         API development

         SQL Skills

         Project Management

         Understanding of PosgreSQL and Rabbit MQ administration

         Understanding of Technical Architecture of Applications

Behavioural competencies

         Strong autonomy: the candidate manages the onboarding of the software onto internal cloud and coordinates all stakeholders involved.

         Self-motivated Problem Solver attitude is required; willing to call on other expertise.

         Flexible and Adaptable with an ability and desire to learn new skills quickly.

         Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines.

         Team player who proactively shares information and collaborates with others.

         Take ownership of responsibilities and if applicable projects

         Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written) with ability to interact comfortably with a variety of businesses, management, and control functions across the bank.

         Individual contributor competency as defined by SG Leadership Model.

         Ability to develop relationships based on trust and professionalism.

         Project-oriented; focused on quality and delivery.

People join for the impact they can have on us. They stay for the impact we have on them. A flatter structure offers visibility and exposure beyond that of our competitors, so you know our names, and we know yours. It's personable, human, and inspires success through passion. By encouraging open mindedness and a willingness to share ideas, we have adapted to market changes and thrived through innovation. Bringing words like hard work and dedication together with community and respect has enabled us to work collaboratively and build our future together. We call this Team Spirit and it's what makes us different. It's what makes you different.

If you feel you have the required experience and qualifications, then please apply to the SG Resourcing Team, and we will manage your application. At Socit Gnrale, we believe our people are our strength and are core to the success of our business. As such, we search for, recruit and appoint the best available person on the basis of aptitude and ability, regardless of sex, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, pregnancy, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief or gender identity.

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