Java Developer

Job Description

Level 3
Description:

We are a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm’s employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

It’s sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative systems, cutting-edge modelling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools.

The Firm-wide Model Control System is the cornerstone of the Firm’s model risk management, used by front-office, control and oversight functions. This is a high-profile system, with visibility at the highest levels of the Firm.

The team follows agile principles, and has a strong product owner team which allows for close collaboration with the business users. The system is being heavily invested in with new feature development, as well as incorporating devops practices and performance improvements.

The team follows agile principles, and has a strong product owner team which allows for close collaboration with the BU. The system is being heavily invested in with new feature development, as well as incorporating devops practices and performance improvements. We are looking for an experienced, hands-on Java developer to work in a team with over 20 people, of which 14 are java server side developers. Members on the team have direct access to the business unit, and must be able to juggle multiple priorities at a given time.

The candidate needs to be a self-starter, smart, and a highly motivated team player with effective communication skills. In addition, the candidate must value producing quality software and have a solid grounding in computer science fundamentals.

We would need someone who can assume responsibility for projects with a strong mindset of DevOps and automation. Their goals will be to Improve DevOps practices, improve the QA automation, Clean up the firm hygiene items, and modernize applications using industrial proven practices. The right candidate should enjoy working in a highly collaborative environment that values team work and offers a lot of flexibility as long as productivity and quality is there.

The required skills are:
– Very strong knowledge of DevOps and related tools, like Jenkins Pipeline, GitHub, Splunk, Grafana, OpenTelemetry and other Observabilities tools.
– Strong knowledge of QA test scenarios Analysis and test automation with automation framework like Selenium, Cypress, Cucumber, and Gerkin language.
– Strong Knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL, MongoDB and NoSQL
– Very strong scripting technique with Python or other scripting language
– Very strong knowledge of JAVA including collection framework, Spring framework ( Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring Integration Test), with strong mindset of Clean Code and Clean Architectural design.
– Very strong Analytical and problem solving techniques

Good to have:
– Strong knowledge of GIT source code management
– Strong knowledge of Representation state transfer (RESTful Web services)
– Knowledge of HTTP, XML, JSON
– Knowledge of Unix/Linux
– Knowledge of Liquibase database schema management