Java Full Stack

Roles & Responsibilities
• Sr. Specialist Full-Stack Dev Consults with internal business groups to provide appropriate application software development services or technical support. Provides application software development services or technical support in more complex situations.
• May also be responsible for requirements gathering and BRD/SRD preparation. Has thorough knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle. Conducts reviews of the test Plan and test Data. Will allocate/ coordinate work within a team/project.
• The job holder leads the technical design, development and documentation of cross-functional, multi-platform application systems. S/he analyzes, defines and documents requirements for data, workflow, and logical processes and interfaces with other systems.
• S/he also ensures that expected application performance levels are achieved by coordinating, coding, testing, implementation and documentation. Must have thorough and demonstrative knowledge on or both the user-side frontend of a website, as well as the backend, server-side that powers the user-side.
• Additional requirements include intermediate understanding of security principles, relational databases and architecture design principles. Programming well-designed, testable, efficient code. Analyze, design and develop tests and test-automation suites.
• Develop flowcharts, layouts and documentation to satisfy requirements and solutions. Maintain software functionality and currency (technical debt and gain). Actively participate in code reviews. Integrate software components into a fully functional software system.
• Apply security and privacy principles. Execute full lifecycle software development. Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures. Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems. Ensure software is updated with latest features. Participate in deployment process following all change controls.
• Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and platforms. Provide recommendations for continuous improvement. Active learning engagement. Complete all required mandatory training / policy awareness curricula on time.
• Use learning tools such as Pluralsight to complete both recommended and aspirational targets set in personal development plans. Demonstrate team work. Leverage existing products/functionality and promote reuse. Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices.
• Collaborate closely with all the other members of the team to take shared responsibility for the overall efforts that the team has committed to. Collaborate cross-functionally with data engineers, business users, project managers and other engineers to achieve elegant solutions.
• Utilize local meetups to gain and share knowledge. Compiles documentation written by more senior developers of all procedures used in system. Acts as mentor to junior level engineers. Prior experience with using a specific application development toolkit and knowledge of front end and backend development coding languages such as Java, HTML, NodeJS, CSS, JSON, Angular, JavaScript. Must also have proficiency in Core Spring, Docker. Communications and organization skills; team work skills Contributes to the achievement of area objectives.

Qualifications

The Engineer will possess:

• 8+ Java Development / Spring (Batch/Integration) experience at a Financial Firm (preferred)

• Strong Analytical Skills, Able to comprehend and dissect a problem

• Must have strong deductive reasoning & diagnostic problem-solving skills.

• Self-motivated, fast learner, willing to go outside of comfort zone and learn new things.

Core Skills

• Hands on Java Technologist with Financial Applications

• Extensive experience in Spring Batch Framework, Spark, Kafka Streaming Solutions

• Payment Domain Knowledge preferred

• Ability to synthesize business, functional requirements and design solution

• Design and Implement Rest APIs

• Prior experience in Sprint Boot (micro services) framework.

• Prior Experience in working across regions and cross functional teams

• Partner with QA/Ops/Client teams in supporting QA/UAT initiatives

• Experience with source control systems such as GIT

• Knowledge in various branching/merging methodologies and release procedures.

• Experience with continuous integration build engines, such as Jenkins, Cruise Control, etc.

• Experience with IT automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.

• Experience with container technology such as Docker, and CoreOS RKT (Rocket)

• Exposure to Agile development processes and tools such as Confluence, JIRA, and Kanban.

• Scripting experience (Python, Perl, Bash, batch, etc.) and familiarity with Windows, Linux (RHEL preferred) and Unix.

• Experience with databases both relational (Oracle, MSSQL) and non-relational (NoSQL, MongoDb)

• Experience in release engineering, configuration management, software development or related discipline.

Bachelor's degree in computer science engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required 7-+ years of experience in software development required; experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus. Job holder must have understanding interdependencies and business impact of future IT plans. S/he must have prior lead experience selecting and implementing vendor-specific methodologies and prior consulting experience with structured methodologies. Extensive experience with developing and supporting mainframe applications required. Job holder must have broad experience with multi-platform development tools and toolkits