Avaloq Technical Lead

Location: MACQUARIE PARK, NSW

Salary: Not Specified

Job Type: Permanent position | Full time position

• Sydney is highly desired location – other states considered
• Full relocation to Sydney provided
• Avaloq experience Mandatory
• Avaloq Certified Professional (ACP) needed

Project Description: The lead role provides the technical expertise and dedicated technical focus required to deliver on customer's next generation technology capabilities including data analytics, platform development, specialised application development, systems and processes. This role will operate predominantly in an Agile environment and such will be required to support the technology capabilities to effectively deliver value to customers. Responsibilities:

• Complete the design, development and testing of components that deliver on technology capability with the goal of providing reliable, stable and operationally sound applications, systems and infrastructure that meet business requirements and industry best practices
• Design, configure and validate new and enhanced Systems needed to improve the flow solutions through our life cycles
• Specify interfaces and translate logical designs into physical designs taking account target environment, performance & security requirements and existing systems
• Quick POC development for technical solution feasibility using prototyping tools where necessary
• Employ a variety of emerging languages and tools to marry systems together.
• Ensure that applications are developed with consistent maintainable code which supports risk and compliance management
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of applications throughout lifecycle and provide technical input to the planning of future application and maintenance requirements
• Develop operational and system documentation to enable effective maintenance and support of applications
• Employ CI/CD and DevOps practices that are endorsed by Group Technology and ensure maximum leverage of existing platform services.
• Analyse business requirements and articulate complex technical requirements through collaboration with business users, technology groups and suppliers to ensure business requirements are understood by the technology group.
• Recommend and justify the functional design to address the business needs to ensure the business understands the proposed design
• Coordinate and participate in the analysis of Information Technology solutions to ensure effective solutions are delivered to the business.

Mandatory Skills Description:

• Avaloq Certified Professional (ACP) with 6-10 years' experience in customisation and implementation of Avaloq Banking System.
• Good understanding of banking operations, trade lifecycle and investment/ superannuation products.
• Good understanding of relational databases (preferably Oracle and PL/SQL)
• Subject matter expert of several Avaloq modules (Functional and Technical)
• Lead Avaloq deliveries of a specific stream adhering to Avaloq standards, best practices and quality guidelines.
• Lead Avaloq solution design and program initiatives of the platform.
• Perform Avaloq design review and code audits.
• Expert skills with Avaloq development tools ICE and SQL Developer as well as Avaloq change life cycle.

Prior Experience working with Avaloq Database Automation and Integration (ADAI) will be advantageous.

• Expert parameterisation skills in core Avaloq concepts: Avaloq scripts, Cost & Fees, Order Validations & workflow management, Book and Balance engines, Avaloq messaging interface (AMI), Task and Reporting framework etc..
• Strong Understanding of Avaloq concepts such as EOD, Pillars and Rule loading.
• Experience with Avaloq smart client and functional understanding of various modules (Forms, Task and reporting desk, Central Services, Portfolio desk etc.)
• Hands on experience with SQL tuning and performance tuning of Avaloq codes through SQL Trace and PL/SQL Hierarchical Profile (HPROF)
• Review codes of more junior Avaloq developers.

Ability to validate end to end solution design and impact to various Avaloq modules.

• Strong understanding of Avaloq release management processes such as creating streams/releases and creating Avaloq packages for installation.

Hands on experience in Avaloq release management processes and Unix scripting will be advantageous for an Avaloq release management role.

• Expert problem solving and troubleshooting skills of Avaloq banking system.

Ability analyse Avaloq installation logs and underlying Oracle schema of ABS.

• Experience in raising / managing Avaloq kernel issues through Avaloq issue management tool.