Java Developer

Java Developer

Job location: Irving Texas Duration: 12 month

Senior, hands-on technical lead focused on building out the firm’s strategic reference data platforms used by the Institutional Clients Group of Client-bank.

The successful applicant will take ownership of key projects and components and will be responsible for all phases of the SDLC including analysis and design, development, testing and deployment.

As a technical lead, the candidate will be responsible for providing technical guidance to junior developers, including overseeing their deliverables, providing architectural guidance, enforcing Client best practices, and conducting code reviews.

A potential candidate will need to understand system and enterprise architecture concepts and will be expected to understand how all components fit together and affect one another.

They will work with a global and diverse team of peers as well as liaise closely with Business Analyst, Production Support, and Infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and deliver assigned development projects within agreed schedule, quality and scope expectations
• Participate in all stages of the SDLC within an agile Scrum environment.
• Interact with senior management to define and drive architectural direction
• Enhance/Re-architect existing components to satisfy new performance and scalability requirements
• Provide level 3 (escalation) support for the application
• Ensure all components in the platform are fully compliant with Client technology standards
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and help define operating standards and processes

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 4 years of application development experience
• Solid understanding of application infrastructures, including hardware, storage, network, databases, disaster recovery
• Strong grasp of algorithms and data structures and how to best apply them to build optimal software solutions
• Logical thinking, strong analytical and problem solving skills; innovative and solutions oriented
• Effective time management skills in order to manage multiple priorities with flexibility on time zones and timelines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to prepare and deliver effective presentation
• Proven experience building scalable, mission critical systems
• Preference of experience working in financial industry

Technical Skills and Experience:

• Experience with the following technologies:
• Java full stack technologies
• RDBMS, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle DB
• XML/XSD/XSLT and JSON
• Web services (SOAP, REST, etc.)
• Modern source control, build and continuous integration solutions
• UNIX/Linux Shell scripting
• Tomcat or Weblogic application server
• Java concurrency (practical experience and good knowledge)
• Rabbit MQ or other message oriented middleware
• Autosys or other scheduling systems
• Oracle and other RDBMS with strong SQL
• Experience in Cloud concepts and technologies: container build and orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, horizontal scaling
• Experience using – JIRA, uDeploy, SonarQube, TeamCity, Artifactory, BitBucket, Groovy, Maven/Gradle.