Java Software Developer

Project description

Our client is the corporate and investment banking arm of The Group, the world's 12th largest bank by total assets. We work daily with international branches located in 30 markets by:

1. Envisioning and preparing the Bank's futures information systems.
2. Partnering and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large-scale development projects.
3. Providing premium In-house Banking applications.

This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage in the market. We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges. The department is responsible for the development and maintenance of Risk and Finance applications used by worldwide users covering Market Risk, Counterparty Risk, and Finance domain. The applications are in-house developments with a mix of Microsoft and open-source technologies. Recent years have seen unprecedented evolution in the technical infrastructure available to answer increasingly challenging regulations. The open position is to join one major investment project to address FRTB regulation. To be ready to tackle the regulatory requirement, the Market Risk Information System platform is being redesigned to be global and adaptable, enabling automated reporting and real-time processing and monitoring. The Market Risk Data Intelligence project will transform the Market Risk application landscape as it was known to bring it to the next level.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical study into a proposed solution, while involving expertise from infrastructure big data experts and business analyst requirements.
• Document proposed design and develop the solution.
• Implicitly ensure all CI-CD artefacts are part of the solution.
• Perform code reviews 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, enhance existing software capabilities, and develop 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, and quality control including performance and load testing.

SKILLS

Must have

• At least a Bachelor’s degree in any of these faculties: Computer Science / Information Technology / Programming & Systems Analysis / Science (Computer Studies).
• 5+ years in Software development.
• 3+ years in Java/J2EE development.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both teammates and management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficient in the software development life cycle.
• Appetite to follow technology trends and participate in communities.
• Passion for sharing expertise and growing team members' skills.
• Interest in mentoring and guiding junior team members on the path of high-quality deliverables.

Nice to have

• Hands-on data ingest and data processing technology like Spark streaming and Spark.
• Hands-on messaging systems like Kafka, Flume, ActiveMQ, MQSeries, or RabbitMQ.
• Hands-on knowledge of Hadoop (preferably Hortonworks distribution) - HDFS, HBase, Hive, ORC/Parquet.
• Build tools - Maven/sbt/ant, UML, Restful web services, Jenkins/Team City, Source management – SVN/GIT, TDD using Junit, Jira/QC.
• Solution design using proven patterns, awareness of anti-patterns, performance tuning, especially in streaming.
• Knowledge of tools like Phoenix, ElasticSearch, Sqoop, StreamSets are good to have.
• Basic understanding of finance and investment banking.