Lead Engineer/Java Architect

Our customer is a top-tier investment bank with client assets of hundreds of billion globally.

Reason to join us
• We offer the opportunity to work in a highly professional environment where you will work with high-level financial instruments
• We want you to be part of our success story and give you reasons to be proud of what you achieved as part of our fabulous team
• We give you the opportunity to develop yourself and evolve in your career via our fantastic technical, business-related or soft skills training
• We encourage creative-thinking in our great open-minded work environment. Frequently the relaxation rooms are the place where the most ambitions ideas are born.
• We are not just professional teams, we are also friends that have fun working together
• If you are an active person and you feel motivated by the creation/development of the software solutions, then this is the place to be, you will not get bored.
• We seek an enthusiastic and highly talented Java Software Engineer/Architect to help design, architect and implement innovative solutions for our database platforms. An interested candidate will have experience in architecting quality, testable and resilient software designed for the future. The candidate must keep abreast of new technologies and trends with an eagerness to learn, pair and coach.
The candidate will be shaping the future of Database Engineering as we transform the Bank through a Service Oriented, API first and Cloud Native approach in delivering our Database platforms as Automated Services for teams and customers across the Bank.
The ideal candidate would have a solid blend of software development, design and technical architecture as well as API integration and strong database (RDBMS and NOSQL) skills.

Responsibilities

Developing source code, including descriptions, for all Software Components in accordance with Software Requirements specification, the functional design and the technical design document

Working on full stack Java based development of greenfield and existing applications within a micro services architecture

Contributing to quality assurance by writing unit, integration and functional tests as well as leading test driven development (TDD)

Assisting in the adoption of Agile principles across the team and working with the wider team to manage key issues and stakeholders

Prepare High level, technical and solution designs for different use cases and challenges

Architecting and Designing solutions that transforms a Database Platform into a Service

Continuously looking for opportunities to automate core technical assets and tasks with a view of delivering them as a cloud native services or APIs

Designing and implementing complex software integrations

Performing research, POCs and leading highly technical discussions

Designing software target state architectures and roadmaps of achieving it

Designing CI/CD pipelines

Leading Software deployments, releases, audit remediations and supporting production Application incidents with an engineering approach

Skills

Must have

Significant development delivery experience, with experience of delivery within Agile Software Development Life Cycle/teams ideally with CI/CD

Proven vast experience in Java (1.8 or above) with focus on TDD, design patterns, messaging and parallel processing

Proven Knowledge of Event driven architecture, service orchestration and messaging

Extensive experience in API Integrations

Strong Experience in Relational Databases (Oracle or Postgres) and NoSQL

Previous experience in ServiceNow or a similar ITSM solution is highly desirable

Previous experience working with OpenShift or a similar Kubernetes platform is a must.

Extensive experience in micro service development, architecture and patterns.

Extensive hands-on experience with Spring Boot, and similar libraries like Spring Could, Spring JPA, Hibernate, Spring security and Docker

Experience developing unit testable code using testing frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber and practical experience with build tools (preferably Maven),

Vast Experience in Software Design and technical architecture using a variety of toolsets

Extensive experience in building a CI/CD pipeline using TeamCity, Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab or Travis CI etc is highly essential.

Prior experience in Python flask is nice to have.

Experience developing and architecting integration solutions on Cloud Platforms is essential be it GCP, Azure or AWS.

Experience in building cloud native, distributed, highly available and fault tolerant applications.

Extensive experience in Software design and documentation

Strong knowledge of API gateway, Authorization and Authentication schemes like OAuth, TL, the Open-API and Async-API standards, DNS, Load Balancing, Serverless and Auto-scaling

Strong knowledge of Enterprise integration patterns

Nice-to-have front-end technology: preferably REACT

Experience in solution design and techniques with ability to make design decision trade-offs

Ability to self-manage a book of work and ensure clear transparency on progress with clear and timely communication of issues

Capability to interact successfully in a virtual, multi-vendor and multi-cultural environment

Effectively communicates complex messages in a clear and concise manner

Enables experimentation and fast learning approaches to creating solutions

Ability to prioritize and manage several competing demands simultaneously

Ability to work autonomously, take a leap and achieve goals iteratively

Nice to have

n/a

Other

Languages

English: C1 Advanced

Seniority

Senior