Graduate Developer Cardiff 2023

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ’s vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Role Summary

An exciting opportunity to join an expanding and dynamic software delivery team within the Equiniti Xanite IT department, in the Equiniti Xanite business. Equiniti Xanite build, maintain, and support mission critical Share Dealing and Wealth Administration software. The EQX team are a global team with teams in Chennai, Krakow, and Cardiff. This is a Cardiff based role however, project work may require occasional visits to other sites.

The core activities of the Xanite Software Delivery team are to deliver innovative software solutions to meet the needs of both internal and external client base; to provide technical input to the Xanite product set and ensure that the technology roadmap aligns to business strategy, to support the Equiniti business by delivering market leading technology solutions through an in depth knowledge of the markets and products that Equiniti work with and to create a centre of excellence for all Java development within the Equiniti Group.

Who You Are

EQ are looking for graduates who show a strong desire to expand their skills and experience

• Find solutions and overcome complex problems.
• Work within an Agile delivery teams
• Brainstorm, design, and implementation of new functionality in user stories.
• Provide technical support to operational teams.
• Collaborated with business and technical teams across the globe.
• Expand and grow their holistic technical skill set

Core Duties/Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for

• Develop software following industry best practices within the scope of Equiniti projects and architecture.
• Ensure, as part of the project scrum team, that software has been unit tested, peer reviewed and meets the architectural principles of the application.
• Author unit tests and work collaboratively to test that software meets acceptance criteria.
• Work collaboratively with product owners, solution design and infrastructure teams to meet client requirements as part of your scrum team.
• Participate in planning, retrospective, review sessions and daily stand-ups.
• Adherence to all Regulatory, Security and Compliance requirements
• Ability to work calmly and methodically when under pressure
• Eagerness to learn and expand their knowledge of the development life cycle and multiple programming languages.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience skills and behaviours:

Required

• Degree in relevant subject (e.g., Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics) or a software development background.
• Technical ability in a mainstream programming language (preferably Java).
• Sound knowledge of OO design principles and patterns.
• Sound knowledge of database design principals and SQL.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment.

Desirable

• Knowledge of C#
• JMeter
• Spring
• Source control (e.g., SVN, Git)
• Microsoft ADO
• Unit and Integration testing
• Knowledge in other programming language

What We Offer

• Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%
• All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) – Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.
• Health and Wellbeing – Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.
• Employee discounts – Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.
• Flexible Benefits – The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.
• Time Off – Typically 28 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.
• Winning together – Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks.