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Senior Software Engineer(TRTN) Job

Thomson Reuters

Date: May 2, 2013

Location: Beijing, CN

Title:Senior Software Engineer(TRTN)
ID:TEC00025612

Description

The successful applicant will join a new team developing Thomson Reuters Post Trade Services offering - Thomson Reuters Trade Notification. Thomson Reuters Trade Notification is a secure messaging hub that captures trades electronically and delivers notifications instantly for both voice and electronically executed trades.

The successful applicant will have the following responsibilities:
- Participating in project planning sessions with team members to analyse requirements.
- Providing design recommendations, developing and integrating programs per written specifications.
- Translating business and technical requirements into detailed design specifications for application code and modules.
- Preparing and presenting status updates for various projects.
- Making moderate to complex modifications to existing software applications and modules in accordance with written specifications and industry standards.
- Developing software application modules using disciplined software development processes.
- Unit testing and implementing application modules from multiple systems the team has developed or modified, ensuring application meets needs of client and business.
- Identifies ways to improve the operation of own area and to achieve efficiencies and results.
- Mentoring and support of junior team members.

We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.

Qualifications

REQUIREMENTS:

Required Skills (Must have), Necessary industry Experience & associated number of years of experience:
- Bachelors degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience
- 2+ years working experience in software development projects
- Excellent understanding of software engineering principles and object-oriented design
- Completing objectives of assignments within the agreed timeframe and to agreed quality levels
- Demonstrated experience in all phases from design to release of production quality systems
- Strong analytic thinking skills
- Required languages: 2+ years programming using Java/JEE
- Familiar with XML
- Experience of version control systems; Subversion and GIT preferred
- Interest in the financial markets
- Ability to communicate effectively in verbal and written English
- Effective technical communication skills
- Passion for learning and strong learning skills
- An enthusiastic team player

Desired Skills (Nice to have in addition to the Required Skills), Necessary industry Experience & associated number of years of experience:
- Experience of programming in the UNIX environment
- Experience of working to short project deadlines.
- Good understanding of unit testing, testing frameworks and test-first development
- Good understanding of agile development techniques
- Good understanding of database design and database performance
- Experience with JEE, applications and applets
- Working knowledge of Javascript, Ajax, SQL, .Net, C#, Visual Basic, XML, HTML, UNIX shell scripts
- Experience of working with Eclipse, Oracle database, GlassFish, Spring, Jasper and Maven
- Java certification:
- Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP),
- Sun Certified Java Developer (SCJD)

At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.

To learn more about what we offer, please visit careers.thomsonreuters.com.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.

Job: Technology Development
Primary Location: Beijing, CN
Other Locations:
Organization: F&R Mktpls Money Mkts/FX Mktpl
Schedule: Full-time
Education Level:
Job Type: Standard
Shift:
Travel: No


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