Apex Group

Description

About Apex 

Apex Group Ltd., established in Bermuda in 2003, is a global financial services provider. With over 80 offices in 38 countries worldwide and more than 10,000 employees, Apex Group delivers an expansive range of services to asset managers, financial institutions, private clients and family offices. The Group has continually improved and evolved its capabilities to offer a single-source solution through establishing the broadest range of services in the industry; including fund services, digital onboarding and bank accounts, depositary, custody, super ManCo services, corporate services including HR and Payroll and a pioneering ESG Ratings and Advisory solution. Apex Group’s purpose is to be more than just a financial services provider and is committed to driving positive change to address three core areas; the Environment and Climate Change, Women’s Empowerment and Economic Independence, Education and Social Mobility. 

Life at Apex isn't just about the work you do, it's about embracing the culture and loving what you do. Every employee plays a part in making Apex who we are today and the more that we grow, the more important that becomes. Whatever your career path or specialism Apex ensures it rewards loyal and dedicated employees. The international nature of our business and global network of offices means that there are opportunities to broaden your life experiences and take both short-term or permanent relocation options.

Job Summary 

This role requires extensive hands-on experience in designing and developing Xceptor Implementations as well as a passion for learning and understanding features and products emerging in a rapidly changing Xceptor low-code development market. You will be a part of the Apex Group Technology team developing our modern solutions, process development and automation to improve business process efficiencies; provide superior client digital services and support the scaling of our operational model.

As the Lead Xceptor Developer, you will be responsible for solution design, designing automated solutions and managing various automation projects, ranging from low to high complexity. These automation projects could involve several applications and environments. The automation projects will be mainly implemented with many, if not all, of the components of the Xceptor Platform and a team of Xceptor developers that you will be a part of. 

You will be responsible for supporting and improving existing Xceptor production processes, and for the design, development, implementation and operationalisation of newly proposed projects and solutions. You will also support the Xceptor Product Owner in promoting best practice design and architecture in combination with exploring and implementing the most current Xceptor platform features.

Key Responsibilities 

• Work as a senior member of the Xceptor Development team to design, prototype, develop, test, and deploy applications throughout the Apex Group.
• Support operations teams and troubleshoot production issues.
• Perform root cause analysis for existing process issues, break down large problems in smaller iterative steps, and propose holistic fixes and enhancements.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders on feasibility and optimization of their processes.
• Work with Business Users (SMEs and other stakeholders), Business Analysts and fellow Xceptor Developers to sign off on the business automation and technical requirements, picking the most appropriate tool, method, and design pattern to satisfy the requirement.
• Design automation solutions using Xceptor and other relevant technologies including well-structured Solution Design documentation thereof.
• Contribute to development methodologies and best practices around design, coding, quality, and performance and drive the adoption of these with the Xceptor development team and operational users. 
• Take part in code reviews with the Xceptor development team and facilitate knowledge transfers.
• Oversee technical testing of your own automation projects and support the Quality Assurance (QA) of business user development and projects.
• Participate and oversee in all stages of the automation project lifecycle, including production deployment, hyper-care, and monitoring.
• Define and create technical documentation for the automations developed, according to global best practices.
• Contribute to educating the business on best practices and how Xceptor can assist them.
• Play a leadership role in the Xceptor Developer team by driving best practices and a focus on key priorities.
• Provide guidance to other team members and business users.
• Develop sufficient understanding of peripheral applications and process end-points to assist with the end-to-end enhancements of processes.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience 

• Soft Skills:
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to business audience.
• Strong conceptual and analytical skills with demonstrated strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to effectively engage with and play a senior role in the team.
• Ability to plan and manage your own workload.
• Results driven.
• Eye for detail and zero tolerance for errors.
• Proactivity and a focus on continuous improvement.
• Experience and Education
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or similar field.
• Minimum of 3+ years’ demonstratable experience in a technical role designing and implementing solutions using Xceptor.
• Proven successful delivery of solutions resulting in cost savings and efficiency improvements.
• Experience with SQL and Oracle databases.
• Experience with standard tools used for software development such as git, Microsoft Visual Studio Dev Ops etc.
• Familiar with agile methodologies.
• Experience working with UIPath, IWay Service Manager, Data Migrator and/or Control M would be beneficial.
• Experience on Microsoft .NET and API development.
• Microservices, API and Event Driven Architecture.
• Xceptor Knowledge and Skills
• Knowledge of all components of the Xceptor Platform and the way they are integrated, Data Hub, Reconciliation Hub, Process Orchestrator, Workflow, Confirmations, Document management & generation, OCR, out-of-the-box and bespoke connectors, API, API gateway etc.
• Knowledge of Xceptor application configuration and setup;
• Xceptor core Database, stored procedures, dataflow views
• Xceptor application configuration
• All Input channel types
• 100% understanding of Xceptor application configuration and ability to develop your own custom functions, query lists, delivery destinations.
• Ability to create translational views from various sources, SQL, Oracle.
• Message Hub configuration
• Datasets setup/configuration and archive scheduling

Understanding of Xceptor architecture, and most efficient build method for processes.