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.

We are seeking a talented Application Developer to join our dynamic Capital Market Department!

As an Application Developer, you will be responsible for developing features within a specific Delivery Team. You will work autonomously and follow a continuous improvement approach, ensuring high-quality code that adheres to our design, norms, and standards. You will be accountable for delivering solutions that meet both functional and non-functional requirements, taking into account the principles of Agile development.

Capital Markets IT involves technology solutions and systems used in financial markets for trading, investment, and related activities. This includes electronic trading platforms, risk management systems, market risk, counterparty risk, algorithmic trading, data analytics, and Regulatory measures. The use of advanced technologies like API's, artificial intelligence and cloud solutions are also becoming increasingly prevalent in capital markets to enhance efficiency and decision-making processes.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 12+ years of software development experience

• 8+ years of experience working with Java

• 1-2+ years of experience as a Java Architect

• Banking / Investment Banking domain experience

• 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

• The candidate should have analytical and problem solving skills, a pro-active mind-set in security, proven ability to work individually under pressure.

• Team player with good interpersonal skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.