As the premier supplier to our international banking client in Basel, Swisslinx are looking for an open minded and team oriented C# .NET Developer with experience in financial services to join a business critical project to modernise a risk platform. This is an initial contract running for 12months + with strong likelihood to extend on a long term basis (up to max five years) based on the project road maps, with start date by July. We are looking for a C# .NET Developer to join a small team building financial risk management systems. The systems play an important part in calculating the financial risk and they are currently working on building our platform to a scalable, containerized microservice architecture, in turn removing functionality from a Legacy monolithic system. The team also build and maintain a platform on which Risk Analysts develop and execute their own Python code, therefore Python experience would be highly advantageous.

Responsibilities includes:
As part of the Risk Management team, contribute to the continued development of the Risk Management micro-services stack in C#. Refactoring and breaking down of a Legacy .NET Framework codebase into smaller components to be migrated to .NET Core and eventually OpenShift containers. Development of dashboards to automate the operations of a Risk Operations team, built in WPF. Helping Risk Management move their platform to utilize a Cloudera base Data Lake platform. Replacing Legacy interfaces to Banking system with a Kafka based streaming architecture.

In order to be considered for this role, you will possess as many of the following skills as possible:
Very strong working development experience in an Object-Oriented language such as C#, Java or C++ and a willingness to work on a C# codebase (C# is preferred).
Strong working knowledge of common algorithms and data structures and design patterns.
We would expect the candidates to have a good understanding of design patterns and with an ability to prove their delivery skills.
Experience working with relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server etc. (all listed databases are at the same level in terms of expected experience)
Previous experience in the financial services industry will be a strong advantage for the candidate (direct financial services exposure within a bank or financial/insurance institution, or experience within an outsourcing/external company providing software/development to financial organizations/institutions).
Previous exposure to risk calculations and financial data analysis would be highly appreciated Fluency in English

The following are nice to have but not mandatory:
Skills include microservices architecture design, WPF. Python, Kafka, OpenShift.
Previous experience in the financial services industry will be a strong advantage for the candidate (direct financial services exposure within a bank or financial/insurance institution, or experience within an outsourcing/external company providing software/development to financial organizations/institutions)

Please note interviews would be conducted via video call, however the role is based 100% in Switzerland.

Our client offers:
The opportunity to work in a diverse and international environment on a long-term basis 50% working from home 20 days working remotely from abroad per year Modern office in central Basel (50 minutes direct train from Zurich) with subsidised canteen
Are you interested to work in an international environment in one of the most important financial companies worldwide? Then apply now! We look forward to receiving your full application before the deadline on Thursday 28 March.

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