Principal Consultant - JAVA Developer

About the job Principal Consultant – JAVA Developer

Principal Consultant – JAVA Developer Location: London, England, United Kingdom

Office space available at location listed Hybrid – Compulsory 2 days onsite.

Industry: Information Technology

Job Category: Information Technology – Developer

Compensation: GBP £60,000 to £70,000

• Full-time
• Relocation Assistance Available: No
• Commission Compensation: No
• Bonus Eligible: No
• Overtime Eligible: No
• Interview Travel Reimbursed: No

• Experience: 7+ to 10 years
• Seniority Level: Mid-Senior
• Management Experience Required: Yes
• Minimum Education: Bachelor\’s Degree
• Willingness to Travel: Occasionally

Security Clearance Required: No

Visa Candidate Considered: No

Inviting applications for the role of Principal Consultant – JAVA Developer

The role covers primarily programmer with experience in Java development. The role involves enhancement and migration of the existing code base requiring good knowledge of designing performance efficient solutions. Ability to understand business flows is also key in order to support and maintain the existing systems.

Responsibilities

• Rapid assimilation & understanding of existing applications and technical environment.
• A desire to take responsibility and ownership of components/processes within the team.
• Pragmatic approach to problem solving.
• Ability to communicate and work effectively within the peer group.
• Reporting to the development manager.
• Support a suite of existing applications within the Cash Trade Processing world.
• Make both tactical / strategic changes to the established code base.
• Provide status reports to a wide audience.
• Liaise with Developers/Business Analysts/Stakeholders within region, and in other regions.
• Support the existing applications.
• Application area is Cash Trade Processing.
• Trade Validation/Enrichment.
• Exception management.

Must Haves

• Core Java, Collections.
• Working knowledge on XML and JSON focused on parsing and processing.
• Performance: High throughput processing.
• MQ based message processing.

Good to Have

• Cloud: Docker Containerization.

Minimum qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, or other numerate discipline.
• Extensive Java programming experience.
• Investment Bank Back Office Experience.
• Relational Database, pref. Sybase.
• Unix knowledge.
• Minimum 8-10 years commercial IT Experience.

Desired qualifications

• XML/JSON processing experience.
• Microsoft MS-SQL Server.
• Streaming Platforms.
• Microservices.
• Docker/podman.

Screening Questions

• Work Authorization status – Local Citizen or No visa sponsor required.
• Notice period – less than 30 days.

Ideal Candidate

• Core Java, Collections.
• Working knowledge on XML and JSON focused on parsing and processing.
• Performance: High throughput processing.
• MQ based message processing.
• Cloud: Docker Containerization.