6 month contract - Inside IR35 (Umbrella) - Investment Banking Location: London or Glasgow 50% office presence required The Candidate: · Will be responsible for the full development lifecycle of a project from design, to deployment in production and post release supportability. · Will ensure end-deliverables are clearly defined and communicated; ensure that stakeholders are kept informed of each deliverable's progress, issues and risks. · Will pro-actively manage risk & issues - escalating where appropriate - ensuring delivery progress is maintained. · Will work in projects with an agile methodology delivering incremental deliverables that improve the business functionality whilst limiting risk to Production systems · Will work closely with the business, operations and development teams to design, deliver and implement future state architecture. · Will partner with the architecture teams to ensure robust design and adherence to bank wide architectural goals. · Will design solutions that align technology roadmaps to business strategy and conduct high- quality functional design, system, integration testing and UAT. · Will work closely with Production Management APS to deliver a stable & reliable platform under all necessary controls Knowledge, Skill and Experience · 8 years' experience in commercial software development. · Strong core Java and backend engineering skills, with experience designing, building and maintaining reliable, scalable applications. · Good SQL skills and experience working with relational databases. · Experience with test-driven development, delivery automation and good software engineering practices. · Experience with message-driven architectures and event-driven systems would be beneficial. · Experience with Kafka, Kafka Streams or Kafka Connect would also be beneficial. · Experience working with applications deployed in Kubernetes environments would also be beneficial. · Has experience working in Unix / Linux operation systems. · Has experience working with SDLC tools: Jira, BitBucket, Artifactory, Jenkins, etc · Has experience working in a global team, helping others through pair programming and knowledge sharing and helping the team improve their development practices. · Shows excellent analytical and problem solving skills. Has a can-do attitude, can partner with others inside and outside of the development team to investigate issues, drive conversations to find and agree solutions and communicate those solutions to a diverse set of stakeholders. · Will be able to partner with business, operations, developers, architects and infrastructure teams to help. · Participate and involvement in shaping the future platform i.e. Design sessions Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.