Applications Programmer IV

at  Robertson and Company

Our client is a top financial institution with significant North American holdings. They have operations across most major verticals, including institutional & corporate, wealth management, private client, commercial banking, treasury, and retail banking.
Introduction: Robertson is seeking a skilled Applications Programmer to join our client.
Contract Dates: 12 months with potential to extend or convert
Pay Range: TBD
Business Hours: Monday to Friday (Hybrid)

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading technical aspects of enhancement backlog items from inception through to deployment.
• Participate in analysis and system design specification sessions.
• Documentation of design options and solutions according to System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology.
• Ensure that solutions adhere to development best practices and architectural principles.
• Apply analytical skills to resolve problems and deliver viable solutions.
• Anticipate obstacles and execute proactive approaches to issues.
• Active participation in issue resolution.
• Provide detailed development complexity estimates to Product Owner for development effort as well as daily status reporting.
• Configuration management for the sub projects within the release.
• Responsible for coding, testing, packaging, deployment and support of builds as code is promoted from development, system, acceptance and production environments. May lead code reviews.
• Work closely with Platform Administrators, QA Team and Business representatives for BAT testing to ensure that environments are fully functional and that builds are properly tested before being deployed.
• Participate in development of test strategy, test plans, test cases and testing efforts (unit testing and integration testing of code).
• Provide technical support to business and testing team during testing phases.
• Track defects, defect triage and resolution.
• Coaching / mentoring of junior developers.
• Knowledge transfer within group.
• Ensure required documentation is housed in the project repository and that knowledge transfer has occurred to full time staff upon completion of contract term.

Experience & Qualification Requirements:

• At least 5 years of hands-on technical working experience as a ServiceNow Developer, preferably within the financial services industry. Applications and Modules include: APM/CSDM, Service Catalogs, Incident/Change/Problem, CMDB, Demand and integrations with third party applications
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of Applications Portfolio Management, Integration Hub and other integrations on the NOW Platform
• Hold a ServiceNow CSA and ServiceNow CIS certification
• Demonstrate a good understanding of the following frameworks: Agile Scrum, DevOps and ITIL 4

Personal Attributes:

• Excellent influencing and communication skills
• Effective customer service and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work as a team player and develop strong working relationships
• Strong organizational, time management and priority setting skills to meet tight deadlines
• Able to work with various business functions

• Responsible for leading technical aspects of enhancement backlog items from inception through to deployment.
• Participate in analysis and system design specification sessions.
• Documentation of design options and solutions according to System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology.
• Ensure that solutions adhere to development best practices and architectural principles.
• Apply analytical skills to resolve problems and deliver viable solutions.
• Anticipate obstacles and execute proactive approaches to issues.
• Active participation in issue resolution.
• Provide detailed development complexity estimates to Product Owner for development effort as well as daily status reporting.
• Configuration management for the sub projects within the release.
• Responsible for coding, testing, packaging, deployment and support of builds as code is promoted from development, system, acceptance and production environments. May lead code reviews.
• Work closely with Platform Administrators, QA Team and Business representatives for BAT testing to ensure that environments are fully functional and that builds are properly tested before being deployed.
• Participate in development of test strategy, test plans, test cases and testing efforts (unit testing and integration testing of code).
• Provide technical support to business and testing team during testing phases.
• Track defects, defect triage and resolution.
• Coaching / mentoring of junior developers.
• Knowledge transfer within group.
• Ensure required documentation is housed in the project repository and that knowledge transfer has occurred to full time staff upon completion of contract term