Senior Java Software Developer

at  Luxoft

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Our client is the corporate and investment banking arm of The Group, world’s 12th largest bank by total assets.

We work daily with international branches located in 30 markets by:

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

This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market.
We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges.
The department is responsible for development and maintenance of Capital Market IT applications (in-house and package) used worldwide, covering Front Office (Murex, Apex, Orchestrade…), Back Office (Summit, Calypso…), Market data referential (Asset Control..), Market Risk (in-house application on big data technologies).
The Static and Market Data team works across the full value chain to feed FO, BO and Risk department with Static Market Data to sustain business activities.
This role aims to develop on Static and Market Data application, in project mode as well as maintenance, and to support the “run the bank” function. It requires a deep understanding of the nature of business operations, timing of activities & data flowing through internal and external systems. The build and support team continuously works with business users, infrastructure engineers and system managers.

SKILLS

Must have
8+ years of software development experience
5+ years experience working with Java
Strong understanding and experience in SOLID patterns, unit testing and integration tests
Strong knowledge and experience with latest and advanced Java language features as well as Spring Boot framework
Well experienced in RESTful APIs design & development with Swagger and OpenAPI standard
Good knowledge and experience in AWS Cloud Fundamentals (Microservice architecture, Docker & Kubernetes, S3 storage, Redshift etc.)
Experienced with Java OpenTelemetry and ElasticSearch to build the observability for applications
Experienced with front-end development with either Angular or React
Good knowledge and experience of SQL or similar
Experienced with Maven, Git, Gitlab and JIRA
Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures, with strong fundamentals in complexity analysis
Strong ability to analyze code – understand execution flow & debug even without access to a debugger
An ideal candidate will also have expertise in some or all of the following:
Apache Kafka, Spark and Iceberg
Exposure to devops culture
Nice to have
Knowledge of the following would be helpful although it is not required:
Understanding or interest in finance & financial markets, particularly the general knowledge of different types of financial assests, like bonds, equity, interest rate derivates and CDSetc.
Willing to do L3 Support if required.

Build & change management
Able to lead in terms of technology and conceptualize, propose design and architectural evolution, along with operational model.
Contributing to development of high quality fully tested source code complying with deadlines, schedule and coding standards.
Liaise with business analysts for clarification and understanding of requirements.
Provide deployment and change management of the solution/platform.
Develop tests strategy in coordination with project manager / Business Analysts.
Provide technical assistance during user acceptance test.
Incidents and Requests management (business users and other IT teams)
Communicate effectively.
Analyse enhancement requests and bug-fixes.
Document deliveries.
Support applications in production
analyze and resolve issues as they arise as well as propose optimizations for future.
Monitor the results and quality of the different software solutions and projects implemented in the organization.
Change management
Apply monthly release strategy, following the team’s milestones for analysis, coding and testing.
Support the release roadmap in production.
Operations management
Application support, level 3 (expert).
Troubleshoot and fix issues.
Continuous improvement
Process improvements.
Technology, tools and infrastructure upgrade
Automation of manual work
Delivery efficiency and quality improvement