Principal Developer

AutoRek is a financial data management platform enabling companies to streamline and automate complex and high-volume data management and controls processes. Our customers range from innovative FinTech start-ups to many of the UK and the world’s largest and established banks, asset managers and insurance companies. Digital data and financial transaction volumes are growing exponentially, this combined with increasing regulatory obligations is driving the demand for improved efficiencies, better control, and management of risk across the financial services industry. The AutoRek platform meets these demands and more and that is why we continue to be a leading player in the market. 

We’re looking for proactive, hands-on Principal Developer to join our team. 

Responsibilities

What You'll Be Doing:
As a Principal Developer, you’ll play a key role in delivering AutoRek’s financial management solutions to our global client base. You’ll:

• Support a team of Senior, L2, and L1 Developers in their development and goals. 
• Provide individual team members with support and guidance in their roles and the tasks that they undertake. 
• Drive and develop best practices.  
• Line management 
• Implementing & Testing the AutoRek core financial management solution. 
• Review and sign off solution designs. 
• Direct project build team and oversee build effort.  
• Ownership of defect triage and defect management through the acceptance testing phase. 
• Act as first line of escalation outside of project for technical issues.
• Lead peer reviews. 

Tech Stack You'll Work With:

• MS SQL
• SSRS / Power BI
• Low-code configuration tools
• Data querying and manipulation
• SQL performance tuning

Requirements

What We’re Looking For:

• FinTech, SaaS, or Finance background.
• Industry based reconciliation development or other reconciliation software tool experience 
• Proven experience delivering configuration/code on time and within budget. 
• Experience acting as a technical lead on projects. 
• Line management of small teams. 
• Strong understanding of the phases of the software development and implementation lifecycle. 
• Strong understanding of the Change Control Process to identify any movement of agreed scope. 
• Strong understanding of developing personal development plans, goals, and objective setting. 
• Strong MS SQL, data querying & data manipulation.
• Strong time management and recording skills.  
• Ownership of & adherence to individual and team planned efforts. 

Benefits

• 26-day annual leave package, Flexible bank holidays - plus public holidays and your birthday off
• Salary exchange pension scheme 
• The option to buy extra annual leave days
• Company Bonus Plan
• Employee Nominated On-The Spot Bonus Program. Ranging from £100 - £5000! 
• Employee-Referral Scheme 
• Private healthcare & hospital cash plan that covers our employees’ partners and dependents. 
• 3 x Group Life Insurance 
• Service Recognition Awards - Extra time off & gifts 
• Regular team-building events and monthly all-staff updates from our CEO
• Opportunities for professional development and growth 
• Access to online learning for all - Pluralsight & Udemy 
• Gym membership discount 
• Byond cashback card – Cashback on purchases from your local high street retailers 
• Salary sacrifice cycle scheme – Our cycle to work benefit-pay nothing upfront and save on the cost of a brand-new bike and accessorise. All while saving the planet by reducing your carbon footprint. 

Check out our Employee Benefits video via our social media pages! 
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