Framework Developer

At Computershare, our brand promises are: Certainty, Ingenuity and Advantage.

These promises complement the drivers of openness, honesty, pride and teamwork that we look for in all our employees, and are the drivers behind our commitment to service excellence. Computershare can genuinely be considered an Australian success story. From modest beginnings in 1978, the company now employs over 10,000 people and provides services in 20 countries to more than 30,000 clients in 90+ offices and is a global market leader with strong growth.

Computershare Technology Services, part of the world's largest share registry, provides global technology and infrastructure support for existing Computershare proprietary software together with a full range of development services for new products.

An opportunity has come available for a VMS Framework Developer to join the Core Systems/SCRIP Framework area of our business. Apart from performing the day to day activities involved in ensuring the stability of all of the application development, testing and production environments, this role will also see you maintaining and enhancing the infrastructure software interfaces between the business applications and related sub systems.

The specific responsibilities of this role will include (but not be limited to):

Support the application software and middleware software environment utilized by large scale VMS application system to deliver both real time and batch processing
Monitoring of application software, middleware and integration with various client server architectures to ensure constant improvement in response time and delivery of service and to ensure timely identification and resolution of any issues that arise in the production environment
Develop system design solutions to meet business and functional requirements and ensure that technical systems solutions are cost effective both from a development and ongoing maintainability perspective
Monitor and develop production performance metrics
Ensure the quality assurance processes are followed
Provide first line support in response to production issues and effectively analyse problems to determine the root cause/solution
Work with the Application Development Team leaders to ensure compliance to design standards and to ensure quality
To be successful in this role it is essential that you possess the following skills and attributes:

Proven communication (written and oral),
Problem solving and team skills
Flexible approach to work, including hours
Ability to deliver to deadlines
Self-motivation and initiative
The non-negotiables:

Strong programming and design skills in C
The following skills/experience would be advantageous:

Knowledge or experience of DCL (Digital Command Language) and Open VMS Operating System
Practical experience with the Software Development Life Cycle method
What we can offer you:

The opportunity to work for a large global corporation and one of Victoria's largest software houses
The opportunity to work at the Global Head Quarters of Computershare in Abbotsford
An informal atmosphere
Excellent Career Opportunities
An on Site Gym and Cafe
For further information about this role, please contact Thomas Koola on (03) 9415 5057 or to apply, please click on the 'Apply' button below and follow the application process.

Computershare may conduct a criminal background check on applicants subject to current legislation.

| CERTAINTY | INGENUITY | ADVANTAGE |

Advertised:8 Dec 2010 Aus. Eastern Standard Time
Closing date:29 Jul 2011 11:55pm Aus. Eastern Standard Time


To APPLY go to:
http://careers.computershare.com

and look for job number: 704786