Senior Java Developer- Software Engineer

Software Developer

Job Description and Requirements:
Senior, hands-on development who is passionate about technology and has experience developing high performance transaction or reporting systems with large databases and multi-tier architectures; is a team player and knows how to contribute as part of a distributed and diversified global team. The candidate will be responsible for application development supporting the Custody and Fund Services line of business supporting a strategic initiative to improve the operational and customer service capabilities of the firm.

She/he will have responsibility for unit-level design, coding, unit testing, and integration testing while participating in the full SDLC. The candidate must have a sound grasp of development best practice and system architecture. She/he will be expected to produce high-quality that can pass critical peer review, and to work under a high-pressure and timeline-driven environment. The program involves using leading-edge technologies to transform accounting and reporting processes to industrial strength processing platforms.

Deep technical knowledge and the ability to communicate ideas is an integral part of the role, and as such the successful candidate will be required to demonstrate proficiency in the technical areas required for the project, and should possess good verbal and written communication skills. Candidate will be expected to develop her/his skills similar to a ‘T’ shaped developer with a core strength but also develop a broad understanding of the business model being supported and the multiple sets of technologies used to deliver the business to the client.

Qualifications Minimum 8 years experience building mission-critical enterprise applications, with a proven delivery track record. Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent degree. Demonstrates exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills. Strong communication, organizational, and collaboration skills. Ability to follow complex design and development standards. Experience working in multi-time zone development team. Experience with Agile development. Experience building high volume systems with real-time performance and read and write capabilities.

Deep understanding of Java, data structures, concurrency and multi-threading, run time VM, garbage collection, web-based request handling, servlets and filters in J2EE, and distributed architecture. Expert OO analysis and design skills. Experience developing with Oracle, Sybase or any other major RDBMS. Experience with real-time, event-driven systems and service-oriented architectures is strongly preferred. Experience with enterprise messaging systems, including message queues and pub/sub is strongly preferred.

Knowledge of banking concepts and/or securities back office processing helpful.