Java Developer

Our client is the corporate and investment banking arm of a major group. This Java Developer role involves working with international branches to envision and prepare future information systems, support core banking flagships, and provide premium in-house applications. The project, MASAI, is critical for the Bank's strategic pivot towards data-centric operations, utilizing Big Data technology for scalable data management. Responsibilities include leading technical studies, designing and developing solutions, performing code reviews, and monitoring technical risks.

Must Have

• Lead technical study into a proposed solution, involving expertise from infrastructure big data expert, business analyst requirement
• Document proposed design and develop the solution
• Implicitly ensure all CI-CD artefacts are part of the solution
• Perform code review while fostering knowledge and coaching best practices to team members
• Interact and provide reporting to project managers
• Monitor technical risk and escalate appropriately to management
• Research, design, and develop software
• Analyse user needs and develop software solutions
• Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures
• Work with other engineers to integrate hardware and/or software systems
• Autonomy and reliability in performing duties with initiatives and leadership when it comes to all non-functional deliverables
• At least 4 years of software development experience
• At least 3 years experience working with Java
• Understanding of recent Java language features (lambdas, streams, futures)
• Knowledge of algorithms and data structures, with fundamentals in complexity analysis
• Ability to analyze code
• Understand execution flow & debug without a debugger
• Experience with Maven, Git, writing and maintaining integration tests
• Familiarity with Linux and bash
• Good knowledge of SQL

Good to Have

• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience working with cloud providers, especially AWS
• Git and a Git-portal like Gitlab or GitHub
• Jira or a similar issue-tracking system
• The Spring framework and IoC, and particularly Spring Boot and Swagger for restful web services
• Experience with Spark
• Familiarity with languages some important components used by the system are written in: C#, Go, C++
• Understanding of and interest in finance & financial markets, and in particular counterparty risk systems

Project description

Our client is the corporate and investment banking arm of The Group, world's 12th largest bank by total assets. We work daily with international branches located in 30 markets by: - Envisioning and preparing the Bank's futures information systems - Partnering and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large scale development projects. - Providing premium In-house Banking applications, This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market. We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges. Capital Markets IT is the IT department within the bank focused on solutions related to Capital Markets. This includes Front Office (FO) booking platforms, Risk Management (RM) control and regulatory reporting systems, financial product and contract valuation systems, and much more. It is the department most directly exposed to the bank's financial operations. MASAI is an ambitious project critical to the Bank's strategic pivot towards data-centric operations. In the past, separate systems maintained their data separately, modeling the same data in incompatible ways and depending on ad-hoc and sometimes brittle data sharing mechanisms, creating a complex web of interdependent systems and no centralized repository of data. MASAI was initially created to satisfy regulatory requirements set out by the Basel Committee as part of their FRTB capital rules, but quickly became the central focus in the Bank's push towards a more data-centric approach. It is based on Big Data technology, which allows horizontally scalable management of data at and beyond the petabyte scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical study into a propose solution, while involving expertise from infrastructure big data expert, business analyst requirement
• Document proposed design and develop the solution
• Implicitly ensure all CI-CD artefacts are part of the solution
• Perform code review while fostering knowledge and coaching best practices to team members
• Interact and provide reporting to project managers
• Monitor technical risk and escalate appropriately to management
• Research, design, and develop software.
• Analyse user needs and develop software solutions
• Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures.
• Work with other engineers to integrate hardware and/or software systems
• The position requires autonomy and reliability in performing duties with initiatives and leadership when it comes to all non-functional deliverables such as testing tools, mocking objects, production monitoring concerns, quality control including performance and load testing.

Skills

Must have

• At least 4 years of software development experience
• At least 3 years experience working with Java
• Understanding of recent Java language features (lambdas, streams, futures)
• Knowledge of algorithms and data structures, with fundamentals in complexity analysis
• Ability to analyze code
• Understand execution flow & debug without a debugger
• Experience with Maven, Git, writing and maintaining integration tests
• Familiarity with Linux and bash
• Good knowledge of SQL

Nice to have

• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience working with cloud providers, especially AWS
• Git and a Git-portal like Gitlab or GitHub
• Jira or a similar issue-tracking system
• The Spring framework and IoC, and particularly Spring Boot and Swagger for restful web services
• Experience with Spark
• Familiarity with languages some important components used by the system are written in: C#, Go, C++
• Understanding of and interest in finance & financial markets, and in particular counterparty risk systems

Other

Languages

English: C1 Advanced

Seniority

Regular