Java/Database Developer - Prime Brokerage IT

UBS is a leading global financial services firm. Our Investment Bank is one of the world's top global investment banking and securities firms, providing a full spectrum of products to institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, government and hedge funds worldwide.

The UBS Investment Bank is seeking a Java/Database Developer to join our Prime Brokerage IT team based in Stamford, CT. The position requires an individual with strong background in Java, Sybase and Oracle.

The individual will participate in development of Strategic Risk & Margin platform and will be required to provide Level 2 and Level 3 support on Production issues and day-to-day UAT items.
The candidates must be capable of actively participating in discussions with the business and other IT staff.

A key responsibility will be reducing the dependency on an external software vendor by bringing the technology and knowledge in-house and work with Prime Brokerage business to introduce new data sources that will give the business better flexibility in working its external clients. This person is expected to contribute to the new technical platform for HFS IT.

This person will also be responsible for mentoring junior members on team and will be an active participant in the group's recruitment processes, which includes administering technical interviews as needed.

Basic Qualifications

* A Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or Computer Science or closely related field of study.

* A minimum of a 5 years related development work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred skills and experience

* Core Java development skills eg. i/o handling, multithreaded programming, singleton, etc.
* Exposure to J2EE development that includes familiarity with JSP, Servlets, MQ and Struts technologies.

* Sybase knowledge, Sybase internals and be familiar with all aspects of Sybase development including performance and tuning, relational database design, backup and recovery.

* Oracle knowledge, familiar with advanced level development concepts such as materialized views, XML parsing.

* Prior experience in the financial services industry strongly preferred.

* Proficient spoken and written English language interpersonal communication skills, as this individual will interact with both business & technical users to provide and provide status on various aspects of the projects.

If you are attracted to joining an organization where every individual's contribution counts and where your talent will impact on our future, please apply for this position. It starts with you.