Senior Software Engineer

Vodafone; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading telecommunications company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Belfast. This position focuses on migrating technology infrastructure to Google Cloud and developing enterprise applications, requiring strong Java skills and a degree. The role promises innovative projects and flexible working options, along with comprehensive training and mentoring.

Benefits

Bonus Programme

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Private Medical and Dental coverage

Mental Health Benefit Programme

Group Pension Plan

Income Protection

Life Assurance

Cycle To Work

Gym Membership

Education Assistance

Ongoing Employee Development Training/Certification

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge and experience in Java.
• Good organization skills, able to multitask.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software.
• Provide mentoring and technical direction for development.
• Participate in CICD development pipelines.

Skills

Core Java skills

Cloud computing

DevOps

CICD practices

Critical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Confluence

JIRA

Job description

Description
CME Group is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to work on our GCP migration initiative .

CME Group has recently agreed a long-term partnership with Google to migrate our technology infrastructure to Google Cloud in a visionary partnership to transform the global derivatives markets through technology with Google themselves investing $1bn of equity in CME.

In this role the selected candidate will join the CME Trade Dissemination product team in Belfast where they will have an opportunity to innovate and lead both the migration and the development of our suite of enterprise applications using Java, cloud and automation technologies.

With the Google Cloud migration along with DevOps and automation as driving forces to maximize customer value, we are looking for an engineer who is excited by the opportunity to hone these kinds of skills to complement their core Java skills. In this role you can expect to work with technologies such Google Cloud Platform, Argo workflows, Kubernetes, Docker and Jenkins to name but a few.

Internal mobility and flexibility are a key part to our agile approach to technology delivery. The successful candidate will play a key role in driving our success and will find opportunities to work in a variety of projects and technologies beyond their initial areas of subject matter expertise.

What to expect working in CME Post Trade:

• Opportunity to work with Technical Experts in Enterprise processing
  
• Ownership of significant and challenging engineering problems as appropriate to role
  
• Bespoke training and mentoring opportunities to develop new skills and expertise
  
• Work with a wide range of tools and technologies to support Production systems.
  
• A team with a focus on innovation and embracing early adoption of practices and technologies.
  
• Strong identity and accountability for the entire value stream.
  
• A culture of humility, respect and trust where teams are empowered to take risks to innovate, fail fast and learn iteratively.
  
• Flexible home working policy.
  

Principal Accountabilities

• Become an SME in the domain, contributing to system design and collaborating with various teams to build fit for purpose platforms.
  
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software.
  
• Provide mentoring and technical direction to development, helping to identify technical solutions to realize design.
  
• Completes research and conducts POCs on new technologies.
  
• Participates in CICD development pipelines, contributing to modern test and delivery techniques
  
• Take initiative and be responsible for technical solutions to application and cloud challenges.
  

Essential Criteria

• Bachelor's degree (with honors) or equivalent/better strongly preferred, but substantial relevant experience could substitute
  
• Strong knowledge of core Java skills, with demonstrable experience
  
• A strategic mentality, able to propose and articulate solutions to complex technical challenges whilst maintaining a balance against over engineering
  
• A critical thinker, with good analysis and investigatory skills with the ability to form good questions in real time
  
• Good organization skills, with the ability to multitask and self organize, determining relative priority of work items
  

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of financial markets/exchange space and working with financial applications
  
• Experience CICD and Cloud operations
  
• Experience using Confluence, JIRA, or other Atlassian tools.
  

Company Benefits

• Bonus Programme
  
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  
• Private Medical and Dental coverage
  
• Mental Health Benefit Programme
  
• Group Pension Plan
  
• Income Protection
  
• Life Assurance
  
• Cycle To Work
  
• Gym Membership
  
• Family Leave
  
• Education Assistance
  
• Ongoing Employee Development Training/Certification
  

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