Programmer Analyst

As a Software Engineer, you will support the development of our new 'Top Day' Clearing & Allocation Platform. This is a new build project that will use the Microsoft AZURE Infrastructure to develop and deploy a market leading solution. As member of the Feature Team, you will work in autonomy, which includes the following development tasks:

• Design, develop and implement technical solutions in Microsoft Azure environments using Java programming language, Kafka, Elastic Search, Kibana, Kubernetes & Java Spring boot

• Support deconstruction of customer requests into detailed stories by interacting with the Product Owner
• Deliver working code that meets acceptance criteria as well as meets the definition of done at different levels
• Write code, deploy scripts, unit test, check code to source code repository, and monitor delivery pipeline activity to ensure product quality and consistency
• Conduct testing, deployment, and production activities of the team to ensure production stability, applying the guidelines provided by the chapters

• Engage in pair programming to write high quality code that's easy to understand and support
• Write tests - very often before the associated code - at unit level with Junit, Mockito and in BDD style with Cucumber
• Attend backlog refinement and planning sessions to discuss and estimate (small, medium, large) upcoming stories

Technical Skills:

• Experience with Java 8
• Sound knowledge of Spring boot or another Java back-end framework, Kafka, Elastic Search, Kibana, & Kubernetes
• AZURE or AWS Development Environment
• Designing RESTful APIs and integrating third party RESTful APIs.
• Working familiarity with code revising and branding, ideally Git.

Competencies:

• Comfortable working in agile methodologies, ideally Scrum.
• Experience with automated testing approaches - test driven development, unit testing, integration testing, and BDD testing.
• Exposure to continuous integration tools.
• Understanding of service-oriented architectures and message brokers.
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving ability. Able to break down complex problems into simple manageable units, develop solutions for each unit, and integrate them back into the whole.
• Results oriented, able to set goals and priorities that maximize the use of resources available to consistently deliver quality results.
• Team-oriented, client-focused and open to different ideas/viewpoints. Self awareness of own behavior and work style, as well as tolerant of different needs and viewpoints
• Financial industry experience highly preferable

Qualifications:

• Experience working in a global / international financial IT environment, where there are a broad range of policies and procedures.
• Possess first-hand experience working in a real Change and Release management environment
• Experience with business analysis methodologies, processes and documentation standards

Experience Needed:

• 10 plus years of experience working as Senior Programmer Analyst role in afinancial industryenvironment