AddressAlfa has a number of opportunities in smart, diverse and growing teams working in a product-led software delivery company.
This includes opportunities for experienced Implementation Consultants and solution architects working on client sites, remotely, or in Sydney.
About Alfa
Working on and with our flagship software platform, Alfa Systems, you will be delivering our leading-edge technologies to Alfa's customers in the asset finance industry across the globe. You will be encountering and solving a host of interesting functional and technical challenges as you help develop and implement an industry-leading product capable of managing millions of complex financial contracts.
Our customers use Alfa Systems to administer both retail and corporate business, from point of sale, through originations, to contract management and remarketing. Alfa Systems manages both high-volume transactions and complex leases and loans, in any region, language and currency.
With over 30 current customers and 26 countries served, Alfa has been delivering successful projects since 1990, and is expanding rapidly throughout Europe, North America, Australasia and beyond.
We support the professional growth of our employees through training, flexibility in career paths and a culture of ongoing learning and continuous improvement. We have an active innovation community and provide time for our people to pursue their own ideas, as well as hackathons and innovation afternoons. We do all of this with a strong focus on a healthy work-life balance too.
Purpose
Alfa offers a wide spectrum of roles, including solution architecture, development management and implementation. You will work effectively as part of a team, implementing our leading software at banks and finance companies. The job involves working with Alfa colleagues, and customers to see challenges through from start-to-finish.
Primary responsibilities/duties
Implementation
- Requirements gathering and documentation including software design, business processes and training materials
- Supporting customer configuration of the software to meet their business requirements
- Software issue investigation and recreation, liaising with engineering teams to ensure issues are resolved efficiently, performing quality assurance and review of issues
- Managing the application release processes both internally and with the customer alongside supporting Alfa's hosting service which deploys our system securely in the AWS public cloud
- Supporting the customer in creating reports and documents, mapping Alfa Systems concepts into a data warehouse or a document production tool
- Involvement in migrations such as developing transformation and load routines, reconciling legacy and Alfa Systems as well as investigating behavioural differences between the systems
- Integration design using real-time, event-driven architectures (SOAP, REST, XML, JSON, ActiveMQ, Kinesis) as well as batch processes for legacy systems
- Integration development using Alfa Systems tooling based on Camel/Spring technologies
- Ownership and prioritisation of own work, multitasking where appropriate
- Supervision and coaching of analysts, implementation partners and customers
- Documenting and delivering potential enhancements to our system
Learning and development
Establish a commitment to both personal development and the development of others:
- Continuous development of people, teamwork and communication skills
- Build knowledge of the asset finance industry
- Supervision and coaching
- Continuing to learn about Alfa Systems and how our products are used by our customers and integrate with their systems, sharing knowledge with the company
Required experience/qualifications:
- Excellent communication skills
- Business analysis and client requirement gathering
- Consultancy skills
- Bachelor's degree qualification in any background
- Problem-solving aptitude
- Commitment to knowledge sharing
- Must be authorised to work in the Australia without restrictions
Preferred experience/qualifications
- Interest in helping clients implement new technology
- Experience in financial services or financial technology organizations
- Around 1-2 years in Software Implementation, consultancy or a related field
- Experience with the implementation of enterprise, distributed systems
- Basic experience with coding in Java or other object oriented languages
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Profit related pay (after 6 months)
- Medical insurance & Life insurance
- 24 working days holiday per year, plus statutory public holidays
- Additional benefits according to seniority (company car allowance, additional holiday)
- Family friendly policies
- Active support of employee led community initiatives through our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) scheme.
Our Culture
Our culture is vibrant, innovative and diverse, and we are proud of it. Ours is a close-knit community. Alfa employees are an eclectic mix and all are creative, talented and hardworking. We think it is important to build close working relationships within our company, so we hold numerous team events and conferences that bring us together for socialising and team building.
We look forward to hearing from you!
- Your resume will be reviewed withn 3 weeks of your submitted application. If you are a good fit, HR will contact you.
