Software Engineer 10 Month FTC

Societe Generale is one of Europe's leading financial services groups and a major player in the economy for over 160 years, we support 25 million clients every day with more than 126,000 staff in 65 countries

Our Group draws on our European roots to develop our business internationally. Our unique geographic positioning enables us to connect Europe and Africa with major global financial centres in Asia and the Americas.

The Group combines financial strength, proven expertise in innovation and a sustainable growth strategy with the objective of creating value for all our stakeholders. We seek to be a trusted partner in the projects of those building tomorrow's world today.

About the Team

The Group’s strategic roadmap, in addition to GBIS, has placed digital and innovation at the core of its strategic plan to ensure improved operational efficiency (automation, platform strategy, digitalization, re-useability, scalability, process mutualization) and reliance on digital and data-first technology by leveraging on the SG Markets Digital platform offering.

The GBTO/SGM team (ex. Chief Digital Office) is comprised of 5 global org streams and their primary mission is to enhance the digital journey of Société Générale’s clients and staff across the SG Markets platform, by ensuring its compatibility with GBIS’ numerous use cases and by mutualising technical components and transversal business services to reduce our information system complexity.

SGM/DPO in the UK, as part of the Maintain stream, (ex CSY/RPM) also provides development, delivery, support and maintenance for all non-core UK applications from various corporate business lines and transversal support functions. It manages around 15+ UK and EMEA applications sponsored by GBIS, COOE, COOM, DFIN, GTS, GTPS, HUMN, SAFE and SEGL. The team provides in house solutions when no existing global solution is available.

Summary of Key Purposes of the Role:

As a transversal role and will take in charge the business analysis, the development/ enhancement of existing and new solutions, manage internal projects as well as managing the vendor relationship for our local business partners / sponsors (Facilities, Corporate Social Responsibility, Compliance, Finance ...)

· Gather& Analyse business requirements by liaising with Product Owners/ Business Partners

· Writing detailed functional specifications (Epics, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria) by interacting with the Product Owner

· Participate in testing, deployment, and production activities of the team to ensure production stability, applying the best practices provides by the production practices league.

· Ensure vendor relationship and coordination with technical consultant as part of project/support.

Key Responsibilities:

Development

· Develop code snippets and scripts as and when needed

· Participate in updating code where needed

Testing

· Perform end-to-end testing by defining test scenarios, documenting defects, and ensuring that the product aligns to the target visions before it used operationally by the business.

Production support

· Supports inquiries, issues, and major events to identify root cause and resolution.

· Ensures Support processes and practices given by the Support Chapters are applied by the team.

Deployment

· Assist in drafting release notes.

· Develop Release Scripts and manage tools used for releases.

· Verifies that entry criteria for each release candidate is fulfilled prior to deployment.

· Plan and execute manual and automated deployments to staging, QA and PROD environments.

· Lead deployments, develop run books, develop contingency and rollback plans.

· Execute deployments to environments, while in parallel supporting ongoing application development.