About Client:

Client is a leading global investment bank and wealth management firm.
The company makes revenue primarily from three main units: institutional securities, wealth management, and investment management.
The firm's clients include corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals.

Position Description:

The Senior Java Developer is responsible for hands on development, support and direction with business systems analysis, development and occasional maintenance support in an object/service-oriented architecture implemented on the Java platform, and also:
Collaborates with Senior Systems Architects, Software Team Leads and other Software Developers to design, develop and deploy technical solutions.
Ability to analyze unfamiliar code and troubleshoot issues/errors and provide technical options for resolutions.
Analyzes complex information, designs, develops and troubleshoots database applications.
Reviews functional requirements and prepares and documents technical program, subsystem and system designs and solutions and their associated project task descriptions and effort estimates.
Uses both industry-standards and company's existing systems architecture, design techniques and development standards and reviews new work with others to ensure it complies with industry and company standards.
Documents technical requirements, program and subsystem designs, project task descriptions, effort estimates, and unit and integration tests.
Performs new development, maintenance fixes and enhancements to meet business requirements.
Assists other teams to troubleshoot application issues in production, quality assurance and other environments.
Develops, reviews, refines, uses and documents plans for both automated and manual unit and integration tests and/or assures unit and integration tests are successfully completed prior to production.
Tests programs for integration prior to production.
Mentors other software developers and IT staff members.
Documents resolutions to system problems.
Documents designs for system requirements.

Required Skills:

Bachelor's degree (pref. Computer Science or related degree) or equivalent experience.
Minimum of 10 years experience.
Highly self-motivated, with the ability to complete tasks with minimal guidance, and to learn independently.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Excellent English verbal and written communication skills.
Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills in working in a cross-functional team comprised of Product Analysts, QA, UAT, Development and PMO members functioning in remote locations.
Ability to juggle tasks and priorities to meet rapidly changing deadlines.
Must work with System Architects to review/approve program and subsystem designs.
Proficiency in UNIX/Linux and Microsoft Windows distributed computing.
Basic skills with Excel spreadsheets and Word documents.

Preferred Experience and Skills

Background in Securities/Banking/Financial Services.
Java IDE (preferably IntelliJ IDE)?Unix/Linux XML and/or Web Services.
JDBC and JPA/Hibernate.
JSON and YAML.
Relational DB principles using Structured Query Language (SQL).
Agile/Scrum methodologies.
Experience working in a desktop Linux environment (preferably CentOS).
Experience working with an issue management system.
Experience working with a wiki such as Confluence.
Experience with Jira is a plus.

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