2025 Global Asset Management, Winter Developer & IT Specialist (4-8 months)
RBC Capital
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Job Description
What is the opportunity?
We are seeking a Developer & IT Specialist (Quant Developer, Software Developer, DevOps Engineer and QA Automation Analyst) to join the RBC Global Asset Management (RBC GAM). If you are passionate to learn about software development & delivery practices, please read on.
Quant Developer
The Quant Development's team current focus is a large multi-year system renovation to replace the quantitative investing platform and tools that enables both research and portfolio management teams. We are a Python first team building horizontally scalable solutions in RBC's private cloud and as a part of the team you will work with popular Python platforms such as Dask, Airflow and JupyterHub to help us deliver innovative solutions. Dashboard work, data-engineering, service development and working with large time series data - these are all things our team does. Come join us to help apply technology that enables the investment processes - this is the epitome of fin-tech!
Software Developer
Participate in all parts of software development lifecycle – design, implementation, and rollout of production systems
Create and review technical design documents, understand how the design will be used in the code development process, and facilitate meetings to design, troubleshoot, and enhancements development
Analyze trade related business requirements and translate them to technical specifications
Estimate activities/tasks required to perform design, coding, and unit testing
Support Applications and respond to inquires and incidents reported by the business and users, especially during the time when offshore team is not available (Canadian business hours)
Investigate bugs, track them in JIRA and fix bugs.
Start developing larger features for projects by working with Senior Engineers
DevOps Engineer
Designing, modifying, developing, writing and implementing software programming applications for target system using agile methods.
Acquiring client requirements; resolving workflow problems through automation optimization.
Writing source codes for new applications, and/or generating and enhancing code samples for existing applications.
Utilizing automated testing tools to perform the testing and maintenance.
QA Automation Analyst
Work closely with project team members in a highly collaborative environment.
Analyze requirements, create test strategy, prepare test documentation and execute test
Design and develop and automated test scripts
Interpret and report test results
Use automation tools to automate and execute test cases
What do you need to succeed?
Technical skills:
Must-have:
Have a strong quantitative background, a degree in math/statistics/computer science/engineering would be a plus
Strong programming knowledge of one or more of the following languages: Python, C# , HTML, CSS, React JS/ Angular, TypeScript
Proficiency with SQL Server, Relational Databases
Basic understanding of development methodologies, best practices, and a general understanding of application architectures.
Java 8+ and Spring Framework (Spring Boot)
Experience with Web technologies such as HTML, HTTP, Java script and CSS
Experience working with DevOps pipelines (Git, Maven, Jenkins), continuous integration/delivery, automated testing (unit, functional, performance)
Experience working within professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source code management, build processes and testing.
Nice to have:
Understanding of Web FE development frameworks and libraries such as Angular and React
Soft skills:
Great communication skills. Team player with the ability to work with a diverse group and offshore team
Basic understanding of development methodologies, best practices, and a general understanding of application architectures.
Must be a self-starter, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functional areas
Excellent interpersonal and highly developed communication skills (verbal and written)
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