Software Engineering Recruitment (UK & Europe)
Duration: 12 months
Start: ASAP
A banking client of mine is looking for a Senior Java Engineer with Kafka and Docker skills to join the team on a freelance basis. We are specifically looking for an individual with strong Core Java expertise, as this role primarily involves server-side development. Must be based in the UK and happy to be on site 8 days per month which is mandatory.
Responsibilities & Duties
* Working as part of an Agile development team to deliver the migration of the legacy application to new event-based and service-oriented architecture solution, working in collaboration with the Solution Architect, Technical Lead, Application architects and other stakeholders.
* Lead delivery of a coherent end-to-end IT solution that meets both functional and non-functional requirements.
* Ensuring that the IT solution complies with the Enterprise engineering and architecture standards.
* Ensuring end-to-end consistency of solution delivery across platforms and teams by, for instance, organising walkthroughs of the solution with delivery teams.
* Ensuring that the solution meets guidelines and standards for design and development.
* Undertaking hands-on development and coaching staff in the new technologies used; The successful candidate will be expected to support the development of more junior colleagues
Technical Skills
* Strong systems development experience at all stages of systems development covering design, development, testing, live implementation and post implementation support.
* Strong hands-on Object-Oriented Design skills
* Experience of developing services/micro-services in Java
* Experience of developing containerised services using Docker and Kubernetes
* Experience of developing and deploying on Unix or Linux
* Hands-on experience of using the Kafka ecosystem
* Experience of profiling and performance tuning
* Experience of Behaviour-Driven and Test-Driven development principles and skills
* Experience of Public Cloud development
* Working in an Agile development team
* Designing and implementing platform independent, database independent event driven applications
* Database design skills in technologies such as Oracle
* Splunk
* DevOps principles, processes and tooling
* IBM MQ
* Messaging Standards, for example ISO 15022, ISO 20022 and JSON
* Working in Financial Market Infrastructure and/or Regulated environments
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Contract
Job function
Information Technology, Finance, and Consulting
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting, Software Development, and Banking
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