Senior Java Developer

The Role Responsibilities 

Strategy 

• See changes through to completion - coding, configuration, testing documentation, change review board 

• Working with Operations users & BA’s to translate requirements to solutions  

• Support testing   

• Engaging and collaborating with a wide group of technology teams from upstream TP systems, integration, modelling team, data base administrators, messaging teams, architecture 

• Identifying technology and process improvements to increase efficiency & reduce risk 

• Devise and implement rigorous testing processes, identifying opportunities for automation. 

Business 

• Have a good understanding of Intraday Liquidity management and its importance for Financial institutions. 

• Knowledge of bank statements, swift MT messages, Real time payments, XML messaging formats is a definite advantage. 

• Knowledge of reconciliations between ledgers and bank statements, real time reporting requirements. 

• Any knowledge on SAP products and particularly SAP-LMS (Liquidity Management Solution) would be a definite advantage. 

 Processes 

• Align to delivery processes of software delivery framework and keep high standard for change management practice. 

• Create process to reduce product time-to-market by embracing automation in the delivery lifecycle 

People and Talent 

• Provide technical guidance and direction to junior developers and would like to share the knowledge within the whole team  

• Keep yourself updated with latest technology stack and able to pick up any development work quickly  

Risk Management 

• Highlight emerging risks to planned delivery upfront to ensure sufficient measures can be taken 

• Inform all stakeholders appropriately only risk / issues / challenges 

Governance 

• Establish good governance process in the team to ensure quality delivery. 

• Ensure minimal release rollbacks, minimum post release production issues 

Regulatory & Business Conduct 

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 

• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct. 

• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders 

• Technology Service Team, ITO – PSS, ITO – BA, ITO – Solution Architect, Product Owners 

Our Ideal Candidate 

• At least 7+ years development experience using Java, spring and hibernate. 
• Experience in Microservices
• Experience in MQ

• Flexibility to deliver in both Agile & Waterfall methodology. 

• Experience working in a banking I.T. team preferred. 

• Java Development: Core Java, Multithreading, Collections, JMS, Hibernate & Spring  

• Very good experience in Apache Camel 

• Java Web Technologies: JSP, JSON/XML (XSLT, XSD, XQuery) 

• Application Server: JBOSS server, Tomcat, Apache Http 

• Database: Oracle architecture, SAP HANA, SQL 

• Middleware: IBM MQ, ActiveMQ, Solace etc  

• IDE: Eclipse, Idea IntelliJ  

• Operating System: Linux (with shell scripting), Windows 

• Repository: GIT & SVN   

• Build tool: Maven. 

• Deployment: Docker, Azure DevOps 

• Confidence to face off to business users & other stakeholders. 

• Experience working in at least one full SDLC. 

• Experience working in a banking I.T. team preferred.