Job Description
The successful candidate will work in the Corporate and Investment Bank Technology group as an a junior developer. This position is for a Java Developer to join an Agile team. The application will be designed as a suite of Restful, micro-services that will be cloud-enabled and will leverage a high level of test automation and deployment automation to achieve Continuous Integration and Delivery.
The team is a cross-functional team responsible for the end-to-end, full stack development of the application. While each team member has a primary skill set, they are also expected to learn and contribute to areas outside of their primary skill set. The team is highly collaborative and values continuous improvement and open communication.
You will be expected to be a well-regarded and respected individual contributor; possess strong inter-personal skills, as well as proven track record of application development with skills in Java, distributed cache technology and building scalable robust systems. In return you will have opportunity to gain exposure to designing, developing and deploying applications to the internal/external cloud.
The day to day activities of the role will encompass the full project lifecycle, including:
- Writing mission critical software in the core technologies listed below
- Creating Automated Unit Tests using Flexible/Open Source Frameworks
- Digesting Business Requirements and designing new modules/functionality in partnership with SMEs
- Ability to understand business processes and map them to solutions
- Working with global team of developers; operational business SMEs and users
Skills:
- Core Java (version 8) with knowledge of Java 1.8 features
- Java Frameworks i.e. Spring
- Source code control software (e.g. Git, subversion),
- Some RDBMS experience exposure
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Using tools such as Swagger for documentation, and Microsoft Word/Excel for other documentation
- Working on Agile team
Desirable:
Knowledge on Cloud foundry or Amazon AWS experience
- Working experience with Micro Services, Service Orientated Architectures
- Some Experience with Spring Boot
- UNIX shell scripting (1 year +)
- Knowledge on Cucumber ,Selenium and Jenkins
- Functional Programming Languages such as Groovy
- RESTful microservices
- No-SQL database technologies; preferably Apache Cassandra
- Apache Tomcat
- Log Management with Splunk or ELK
Person Specification:
- Demonstrate Continual Improvement in terms of Individual Performance, and approach
- Strong communication and team-working skills
- Bright and enthusiastic, self-starter
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
