Software Engineer - Partners Job in London, England

FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for tens of thousands of investment professionals around the world, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial investment decisions. We bring together the world of big data, your own in-house data, and our own unique alternative data to help investment professionals see and seize opportunity sooner. FactSet helps the world’s leading financial professionals stay ahead of global market trends, access extensive company and industry intelligence, and monitor performance with our leading desktop analytics, mobile applications, and comprehensive data feeds.

Exceptional Service

For 40 years, through market changes and technological progress, our focus has always been to provide exceptional client service. From more than 60 offices in 23 countries, we’re all working together toward the goal of creating value for our clients, and we’re proud that 95% of asset managers who use FactSet continue to use FactSet, year after year.

As a FactSet client, you’ll have round-the-clock access to a team of experienced consultants and product specialists who work with you one-on-one to fully understand your firm’s workflows and develop innovative ways to streamline research and analysis

Software Engineer - Partners Job Description

The Product

The target clients for the FactSet Partners system are financial research departments that produce and distribute research reports on a regular basis. The Partners software package is a highly sophisticated and customisable solution aiming to streamline the research process and give more control of the data management, authoring, compliance, and distribution to its clients. With strong integration points within the Microsoft office suite the users can leverage the environments familiar to them. 

The System

The system is a client-server solution build on the Microsoft platform and is installed on-site at our clients. The client side of the product consists of both a light- and a heavy client.The heavy client, written in C++ / ATL / COM, is an Office add-in (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) and deals with a large amount of the Microsoft Office API and various net technologies. The light client is a MVC3 /C# / jQuery Web application which aims to open the system to all the new Web based devices.The server side back-end, written in C++ and C#, is optimised against numerous relational databases, SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, and rely on numerous technologies as IIS/COM+ for the Web service part or OpenXML tools to manipulate Office documents. 

The Company & Department 

FactSet is a leading provider of financial data and analytic applications for investment management and investment banking professionals around the globe. FactSet offers instant access to financial data and analytics to thousands of analysts, portfolio managers, and investment bankers at the world’s financial institutions. FactSet’s business is built on the creative use of technology and an unwavering dedication to client service. We remain on the cutting edge by continually developing and refining our software. Our tools enable clients to perform investment research at the most sophisticated level. We offer individual consultant contacts, 24-hour personal support, and dedication to our users for client service that is unsurpassed in the industry. In addition to an excellent working environment which has been voted one of the UK’s Best Places to Work for the last 4 years; we offer opportunities for professional development, career advancement in a structured environment that offers staff the chance to express themselves. 

The Partners’ engineering team consists of highly motivated and skilled individuals who thrive with the challenges they are confronted with. Shared responsibility is key to the team and every member of the team is involved in every step of the software development and share the responsibility of delivering releases on time with the highest quality. To join the team is a unique opportunity to gain and practice a large range of technical skills making every day challenging and rewarding. We are now looking for a strong addition to the team who will join us in our effort to lifting the product’s success to a higher level. 

Responsibilities

• Design, implementation, test and maintenance of the Partners solution
• Work closely with product developers and quality assurance engineers in an iterative process
• Have a good knowledge of our business, services and our customer’s needs
• Set project milestones and keep track of its progress
• Deliver software releases on time and with the expected capabilities and quality
• Be involved in the full life cycle of software development

Software Engineer - Partners Job Requirements

Experience

• At least a Bachelor’s degree in computer science.
• Proven industry experience as a software engineer.

• Excellent documented knowledge of C++ application development with Visual Studio.
• Strong documented ability to efficiently design source code and strong knowledge of design patterns.
• Strong documented knowledge of SQL and relational database technologies.

• Experience in .NET C#
• Experience in MVC3 and jQuery
• Experience in HTML5 and CSS3

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Must continually strive to acquire new skills in relevant technology and business
• Ability to work both independently and in groups and be able to set own goals based on shifting priorities
• Ability to maintain confidence and composure in stressful situations

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