Job Number: 1679635
Business: GE Capital
Business Segment: Capital - Retail Finance
About Us: GE Capital's Retail Finance business is among the country's most successful retail lenders, with more than 75 years of experience in consumer financing. The business, which originates loans as a unit of GE Capital Retail Bank, provides credit card programs to retailers and consumers in the United States and Canada. We build better businesses through customized private label and bankcard credit programs to national and regional retailers in the U.S., as well as private label credit card programs, promotional and installment lending, bankcards and financial services for consumers through dealers; national, regional and independent retailers; contractors; manufacturers; healthcare practices; and service providers across nearly 20 industries.
At GE Capital Retail Finance, we are committed to being an employer of choice, offering competitive rewards, compensation and benefits. When you join our team, you become part of a stimulating work environment with vast opportunities to sharpen your skills and embrace new leadership challenges. GE provides tools to enable you to build your development and chart your own career path. As a member of the GE Capital Retail Finance team, you'll join over 8,000 colleagues who are passionate about their work!
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Seeking a strong technical candidate with project manage skills to join our eCommerce team. This candidate must be proficient in web and mobile technologies such as Java, JSP, HTML5, Unix, and Linux. This candidate will work on a dynamic team with the goal of designing and building innovative eCommerce and mobile banking solutions. These solutions should be flexible, scalable, cost-effective and supportable.
Essential Responsibilities:
Summary, Continued:
The candidate should also be well versed in emerging technologies and design trends in order to ensure that our eCommerce/mobile offerings are current and relevant and competitive.
Responsibilities:
- Work with Global Development Consultants (GDCs), system engineers, and project managers to create and review detailed technical and functional requirements
- Lead and collaborate on technical designs and solutions which consider impacts on overall application architecture
- Review and approve design and test deliverables for projects
- Monitor application code quality through development, test, and QA
- Participate in addressing root cause analyses, incident reports and provide direction in problem resolution
- Participate in finding ways to increase efficiency, improve system performance and offer improvement suggestions when appropriate
- Ensure compliance with architecture, security and technology standards set by GE Retail Finance
- Ensure compliance with change control and release management processes (including holiday freeze adherence)
- Serve as technical expert on application(s) within team of system engineers
- Provide insight and guidance based on lessons learned and best practices
- Provide 24x7 on-call support periodically throughout the year
- Work with shared infrastructure teams to develop and maintain the eCommerce system's hardware and software
- Working with Client and Business leaders to develop technical solutions to their practical business problems
Qualifications/Requirements:
Basic Qualifications:
- 1) Bachelors Degree and a minimum of 2 years of experience programming and architecting web application technologies such as JSP, J2EE, HTML, HTML 5, Struts & Tiles, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA); OR
2) Bachelor Degree and Graduate or upcoming graduate of the GE Leadership Information Technology Leadership Program (ITLP); OR
3) In lieu of the Bachelor Degree, a High School Diploma/GED a minimum of 6 years of experience programming and architecting web application technologies such as JSP, J2EE, HTML, HTML 5, Struts & Tiles, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Strong knowledge of web and Application Server operation (SunWeb7, Glassfish preferred)
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP and HTTP protocols
- Working knowledge of mobile industry including HTML5, IOS, mobile web, Native App Development
- Proficient in Unix/Solaris and Linux OS
- Strong understanding of Object Oriented Design and programming
- Strong understanding of web architecture including web, app, data tier and network design
- Strong knowledge of hardware/software architecture and operating system fundamentals
Eligibility Requirements:
- MUST be able to satisfy the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.
- You must have a high school diploma or equivalent
- Ability to travel up to 20%, if applicable.
- You must be willing to take a drug test, submit to a background investigation and submit fingerprints as part of the selection process
If currently a GE employee, you must have been in your current position for at least 6 months (AP) or 24 months (PB or greater), have at least a "consistently meets expectations" performance rating and have the approval of your manager to post (or the approval of your manager and HR to apply if you don't meet the time-in-job or performance requirement)
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Additional Eligibility Qualifications:
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen.
Desired Characteristics:
- Working knowledge of FIS Xpress and other banking platform Middleware services
- Well versed in banking and financial services platforms such as FIS Profile
- Extensive experience managing large projects in a dynamic work environment
- Bachelor's degree with focus in Computer Science related field
- Project management certification
- Strong cross-functional team player with the ability to work seamlessly across a Matrix organization and partner with global development companies
- Strategic perspective with demonstrated accountability and execution
- Change agent with the ability to drive compliance, protocols, and standardization
- Solid understanding of IT organizations and deliverables
- Desire to work in a dynamic, fast paced environment
- Detail-oriented
- Ability to multi-task
- Significant experience developing and supporting information systems
- Strong business Acumen and successful track record of aligning with customers
- Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to influence clients, team members, management and external groups
- Ability to work on all phases of complex work assignments
- Ability to analyze, use structured problem solving and available tools to troubleshoot systems, identify root cause, action plans, impact and resolution options
- Understanding of technical architecture and strategies of GE Capital Retail Finance systems and of the various business functions
- Self-motivated and able to work independently or in a team environment
- Superior oral and written communication, analytical and problem solving skills
- Graduate from the GE Leadership Information Technology Leadership Program (ITLP);