Sr. Developer - SQL

 

Summary

The Senior Developer will participate in all phases of the development process including complex design, integration and maintenance while observing proper behaviors, patterns, and standards. The Senior Developer will demonstrate leadership in mentoring and assisting all on the team, and will actively participate in all disciplines required in a full-stack environment, with this particular role focusing on back-end / SQL development efforts. The Senior Developer will participate in defining Stifel’s best practices and ensure they are used in all development projects and procedures.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Work with Development team in various phases of development, including design, implementation, integration, revision control, release and the maintenance of multiple products and systems.
• Performs advanced discovery and research into technical problems and maps out improvements for web applications and their back-end services.
• Lead the development of procedures, using test-driven development, which can be utilized within continuous integration practices.
• Follow Stifel’s coding and development standards and lead community-driven efforts to update them.
• Lead efforts to document code in ways that are useful to both developers and support staff, simplifying and clarifying complicated concepts.
• Lead ad-hoc groups of developers across teams to accomplish harder developmental effort
• Displays awareness of the impact of actions on the business and demonstrates understanding of the context of the company and acts in line with it.
• Uses negotiation skills and techniques to obtain agreement between different interests, challenges management constructively, bringing different views into the open.

Qualifications

• Displays awareness of the impact of actions on the business and demonstrates understanding of the context of the company and acts in line with it.
• Ability to demonstrate proactive architecture-driven approach to problem resolution, strong troubleshooting in a crisis and problem-solving skills.
• Working with a team making decisions about how development environments will be used to their fullest collaboration potential.
• Ability to create and maintain processes and procedures to improve implementation of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Uses negotiation skills and techniques to obtain agreement between different interests, challenges management constructively, bringing different views into the open.
• Transforms mockups and wireframes into usable front-end functionality through developing, testing, and revising web application code.
• Creates components based on user interface/user experience norms, including optimal accessibility, navigation, and cross-browser performance.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
• 6+ years’ of progressive experience in software development

Systems & Technology

• Experience in C#/.NET (Core and Framework) or T-SQL on MS SQL Server
• Experience with Angular, AngularJS
• Advanced experience with source control (like TFS and Git)
• Experience working with SSIS packages
• Experience working with SSRS
• Experience with SQL performance tuning techniques including query plan understanding and management and indexing techniques.

About Stifel

Stifel is a more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.

While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.

At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.

Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.