Senior Java Developer

Are you an experienced Java professional looking to move to an investment banking context, or to become expert in the last OLAP cube technology? 

We have

• Investment Banking clients with complex Java frameworks typically to support pricing and risk calculations for their trading portfolios, or around their wider trade lifecycle management.
• Investment Banking clients with ActivePivot – an in-memory OLAP platform supporting their complex Risk calculations
• Dozens of projects relating to these Java installations:  implementation of new risk measures, integration and migration programmes, functional improvements, performance improvements, financial product implementations… every project is different.

We need

• Talented senior Java developers with a minimum of 6 years of experience and an interest to work in an investment banking context.
• If you have an interest to become an expert in the leading OLAP technology in this space, that’s great too.

About you

• You have a computer science background, and a strong foundation in core Java version 8, 9 (at least 6 years).

• You have experience of algorithm fundamentals, together with multi-threaded and low-latency theory and systems.

• You have worked with Spring, Spring Boot, web services (SOAP, REST), Maven

• You have a good understanding of database technologies (RDBMS, SQL, NoSQL)

• You have experience of deployment within a web application (Tomcat, Jetty)

• You are very familiar with source control and SDLC workflow management tools like GIT, SVN, Jenkins etc.

• You understand test-driven development, and deployment using CI

• You are comfortable in a UNIX environment

• It would be real bonus if you also have knowledge and experience of many of the following:

• Analysis tools and OLAP technologies (ActivePivot, Microsoft Analysis Services)
• BigData systems (Spark).
• MongoDB
• RESTful Services
• Persistence
• JSON processing and binding
• Enterprise integration systems or understanding of integration architecture (EIP, JMS)
• Distributed systems
• Java Memory Model and Garbage Collection
• Java profiling (JMC, JProfiler, Jstack), JMX
• BDD (Cucumber) and Agile methodology
• Widely used trading or risk management systems, such as Murex, Sophis, Summit, Calypso, Front Arena

More about the role

• Proposing and implementing technical solutions by developing and maintaining Java based components and interfaces
• Defining technical objectives by analysing user requirements and proposing system features and functionality
• Determining design methodologies and tool sets; completing programming using languages and software products; designing and conducting tests (using TDD/BDD).
• Integrating applications by designing database architecture and server scripting; establishing connectivity with network systems and information servers
• Creating development solutions based on best practice; contributing to team meetings; trouble-shooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms
• Mentoring and occasional management of more junior team members
• Supporting customers (internal and external) by developing documentation and assistance tools