Java Solution Architect & Lead Engineer, VP

Join us as a Software Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Engineer
• You’ll be designing, producing, testing and implementing working software, working across the lifecycle of the system
• Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role
• We're offering this role at vice president level

What you'll do

Working in a permanent feature team, you’ll be developing knowledge of aspects of the associated platform across the disciplines of business, applications, data and infrastructure. You’ll also be liaising with principal engineers, architects in the domain and other key stakeholders to understand how the platform works and how it supports business objectives.

You’ll also be:

• Applying Agile methods to the development of software on the backlog
• Producing resilient and long-lived software and acting flexibly to cope with future needs
• Delivering intentional architecture and formulating emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation and prototyping
• Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with strong full stack experience in software design and implementation, including being able to exploit programming languages to solve complex problems. You’ll also need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements.

Additionally, you’ll demonstrate:

• 10+ years of experience in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and enterprise application development, with a strong track record of delivering solutions in complex, large-scale environments
• Strong expertise in application modernization, including transforming monolithic applications hosted on on-premise data centres into cloud-native microservices-based architectures
• Proven experience designing scalable, resilient, and high-performance solutions, with the ability to solve complex business and engineering challenges
• Hands-on experience with GCP (Pub/Sub, GKE, BigQuery, Dataproc), Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and legacy platform modernization
• Strong expertise in Sybase, PostgreSQL, Oracle Coherence, and performance optimization of data-intensive applications, with a focus on reliability and scalability
• Deep understanding of application security, vulnerability management, secure-by-design engineering practices, combined with strong ownership, analytical skills, and experience within the Investment Banking and Market Risk domain

Hours

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