JAVA Developer - Banking Sector

Introduction

Our client in the Banking Sector is seeking an experienced Java Developer to join their team on a 12-month contract, with a strong possibility of extension based on business requirements.

Desired Experience & Qualification

Key Critical Tasks

• Support & Maintenance

• Development of good quality software

• Unit testing

• Deployments

• Full accountability of deliverables end-to-end – managing all stakeholders and impacts

• Align to coding and design standards.

• Submit code for Code Quality reviews

• Quality Assurance support

• Feedback on progress to Scrum Master / project manager

• Timesheet capture

• Self-management of capacity and deliverables in alignment with Sprint planning

• Stand-by, Support and Maintenance of systems

Technical Knowledge – Non-Negotiable

• Strong technical/ software engineering background (‘hands-on’)

• Strong application/software development or programming background in Java

• Good experience in system, application architecture, design, development, implementation and deployment (end-to-end), development automation.

• Ability to work on different tiers of the application

• Object oriented Design

• Solid experience on Spring Framework, Sprint Boot, JPA, Hibernate, Micronaut Frameworks

• Solid experience with SOA-Architectures, Microservices Architectures  and related integration protocols (e.g. Web Services (SOAP/XML), REST & JSON, and MQ), as well as the related security requirements/models.

• Experience with application database management practices in a high-volume Java environment (SQL, DB2, and NoSQL – Cassandra/MongoDB).

• Java Application Servers experience.

• Experience with deploying and running Java applications in orchestrated container environments (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure)

• Solid CI, CD, DevOps and related tooling experience, build/test/deploy through automation

• Performance and troubleshooting of Java Applications

• Good experience with integrated system environments

• Practical experience in a high-volume environment. (E.g. application clustering, scaling, multi-threading, session management, etc.)

• Proven ability as a problem-solver

• Self-driven, self-starter, technology leader, and able to work independently.

Must have working experience on the following tools/IDEs

• Eclipse or InteliJ

• Git

• Maven

• Code quality tools e.g. SonarQube

• Experience with artefact repository e.g. Nexus

• Azure DevOps

Required Exposure/Experience

• 5 Years +

• Development experience

• Exposure to agile delivery Scrum, Kanban and or SAFe

• SOA / API

• SOAP and Rest

• HTML & CSS

• DevOps toolsets for software releases

• JWT / Java Web Tokens

• SSL’s

• Solid experience on Spring Framework, Sprint Boot, JPA, Hibernate, Micronaut Frameworks

• Solid experience with SOA-Architectures, Microservices Architectures  and related integration protocols (e.g. Web Services (SOAP/XML), REST & JSON, and MQ), as well as the related security requirements/models.

• Experience with application database management practices in a high-volume Java environment (SQL, DB2, and NoSQL – Cassandra/MongoDB).

• Develop, deploy and test automation

• Performance monitoring and optimisation tools

Interaction with

• Scrum Master

• Delivery Lead

• Product Owner

• Tech SME lead

Package & Remuneration

Rate per hour