Back to search
We are partnered with a leading global consultancy that is searching for a contractor with the following skillset to work on a LONG-TERM contract within the FINANCIAL SERVICES sector.If you are interested and have the relevant experience, please apply promptly and we will contact you to discuss it further.:
Role: JAVA Developer
Location: Glasgow
Vacancies: 2
Style: Hybrid 3 days onsite per week
Rate: up to £450 per day (inside IR35)
Duration: 6 months (initially view to extend)
Key responsibilities:
- This role is a hands-on development role, where we are looking for someone to work on a real time event driven system to help renovate and modernise parts of the system as well enhance the system to support exponential growth in business event processing and data volumes.
- Core skills will be working in a complex real time Linux based environment with multi threaded java and good working knowledge of an RDBMS.
- Some experience of technologies such as MongoDB, Kafka, IBM MQ, snowflake or other leading edge high performant data and caching technologies would be helpful.
- The candidate should have strong analytical skills, strong software engineering skills, a logical approach to problem solving, be able to work in a fast-paced environment liaising with demanding stakeholders to understand complex requirements.
- As part of the development cycle, you should be familiar with working within an agile lifecycle model, you will be expected to target a fully automated release cycle, from testing at unit and integration level to continuous deployment. We continue to encourage good devops practices and look for the team to take opportunities to enhance our automated processes as well as providing good documentation for features.
Key Skills:
- Java Server Side Concurrent Programming with Spring Boot ( Core Spring), Junit
- Understanding of message based architectures (MQ/Kafka)
- RDBMS Sybase and/or DB2 is preferable, with a proficiency in writing complex SQL queries
- Unix/Linux scripting (Shell/Python)
- Good Problem solving and analytical skills
- Full software development lifecycle understanding
- Good software development practices
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- An interest to learn the business supported by the applications
Skills Desired:
- MongoDB
- Knowledge of the Equity Derivative business
- Experience with cloud offerings (Azure/AWS)
