At a Glance
- Tasks: Join an Agile team to migrate legacy applications and develop innovative IT solutions.
- Company: Leading bank in London offering a hybrid work environment.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, flexible working, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Mentorship opportunities and a dynamic, collaborative work culture.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in banking tech while working with cutting-edge tools like Java and Kafka.
- Qualifications: Strong core Java skills and experience in systems development required.
My client is looking for a Senior Java Engineer to join on a contract basis. They need someone with strong core Java expertise as the role primarily involves server-side deployment. The successful candidate will have demonstrable solutions design and development skills and experience alongside validated strong systems development experience at all stages of the software delivery lifecycle.
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Working as part of an Agile development team to deliver the migration of the legacy application to new event-based and service-oriented architecture solution, collaborating with the Solution Architect, Technical Lead, Application architects and other stakeholders.
- Lead delivery of a coherent end-to-end IT solution that meets both functional and non-functional requirements.
- Ensuring that the IT solution complies with the Enterprise engineering and architecture standards.
- Ensuring end-to-end consistency of solution delivery across platforms and teams by organising walkthroughs of the solution with delivery teams.
- Ensuring that the solution meets guidelines and standards for design and development.
- Undertaking hands-on development and coaching staff in the new technologies used; supporting the development of more junior colleagues.
Technical Skills:
- Strong systems development experience at all stages of systems development covering design, development, testing, live implementation and post implementation support.
- Strong hands-on Object-Oriented Design skills.
- Strong core Java programming skills.
- Experience of developing services/micro-services in Java.
- Experience of developing containerised services using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Hands-on SpringBoot skills.
- Experience of developing and deploying on Unix or Linux.
- Hands-on experience of using the Kafka ecosystem.
- Experience of profiling and performance tuning.
- Experience of Behaviour-Driven and Test-Driven development principles and skills.
- Experience of Public Cloud development.
Soft Skills:
- Ability to motivate those you mentor, coach & lead.
- Be a stand-out colleague and role model, willing to participate in peer reviews and to be reviewed by peers.
- Be reliable, self-motivated and able to work without close management and supervision.
- Possess inspiring communication and presentation skills to present proposals both orally and in writing.
- Demonstrable ability to complete work within agreed timescales and identify problems and provide the most suitable solution(s).
Desirable Skills:
- Experience working in an Agile development team.
- Designing and implementing platform independent, database independent event driven applications.
- Database design skills in technologies such as Oracle.
- Familiarity with Splunk.
- Understanding of DevOps principles, processes and tooling.
- Knowledge of IBM MQ Messaging Standards, for example ISO 15022, ISO 20022 and JSON.
- Experience working in Financial Market Infrastructure and/or Regulated environments.
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