Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is a privately-held financial institution and has been a thought leader and solutions provider for almost 200 years. We serve the most sophisticated individuals and institutions with award-winning expertise in Investment Management, Private Banking, and Investor Services. Our 5,000 colleagues operate from 17 cities throughout North America, Europe and Asia..
BBH is committed to diversity, innovation and globalization. Our culture is driven by our goal to provide the best solutions and services to our clients and each other. Our Partnership structure creates a flat organization that promotes collaboration across all business lines. We believe that diverse ideas and the ability to come together globally across groups and borders are a competitive advantage. In order for all our teams to excel, members must trust each other and feel comfortable providing honest input from all perspectives.
This openness sparks innovation and agility, which adds to the entrepreneurial spirit and provides many more career opportunities for our staff. We are a group of high-performing, dedicated and caring professionals who believe that working together is the foundation for superior client service excellence.
As a BBH professional, your career path is yours to define. We take pride in our ability to retain our best employees. We help them manage their careers by moving top performers to new areas of BBH where their talents will make the greatest contribution. As soon as you walk through the doors at BBH, we provide you with the tools to help you succeed and grow your career.
Responsibilities:
BBH is a technology driven financial services organization and our team of highly motivated Java Developers play a key role in developing & supporting market leading applications for diverse areas of the business. We are looking for highly skilled, team orientated individuals who can contribute in a mature and proactive way to all phases of a project lifecycle – i.e. more broadly than in just a pure development role.
Accordingly, in this role you will be work on market leading applications and systems across the business and be exposed to broad range of projects. Key areas of responsibility will include:
- Contributing to requirements definition
- Contributing technical expertise to defining application requirements in collaboration with business analysts, business representatives and others. You must be able to streamline as well as record requirements, perform gap analysis and offer functionality options where appropriate.
- Contribute to application design
- Creating proofs of concept or prototypes if required; contributing to technical design of applications; contributing to database / data model design.
- Developing application functionality which meets business requirements with high quality within given deadlines.
- Developing maintainable, well-documented application functionality with an eye toward standardization, common components, simplicity, performance, robustness and other attributes of enterprise-strength solutions.
- Provide responsive support for business areas.
- Quickly resolving issues encountered by business lines in the production environment, maintaining a helpful, "high touch" approach to working with business users.
Qualifications:
Character attributes – must-have
- Organized – High degree of personal organization & structured approach to problems
- Proactive – Actively seeks to determine upcoming risks & issues and address them
- Collaborative – Genuinely interested in helping others and in sharing information
- Integrity – Places higher value on honesty and ethical behavior than personal advantage
- Communication – Excellent English language skills; strive to be inclusive and to communicate frequently & clearly
- Development – desire to continue to learn new skills and develop professionally.
Technical attributes – must-have
- RDBMS concepts – must understand basic principles of data modeling
- Java – must be proficient in the language, core libraries & design patterns
- JavaScript – must be proficient with simple scripting
- HTML / CSS – must have ability to create custom CSS to customize look and feel
Technical attributes – nice to have
- Web services – experience developing web services in Java
- Stored procedures – experience developing stored procedures (e.g. in Oracle, DB2)
- Web technical stack – experience developing web applications with JSP, ORM libraries, XML, etc.
- Understanding application deployment procedures
- Ability to interpret and troubleshoot applications using logs
- Ability to administer / install web applications
