Senior / Tech Lead Java Developer

The Senior / Tech Lead Java Developer is a member of the Agile Team responsible for leading a team of skilled, cross-functional software engineers. In this role you will be expected to coordinate system integrations, advocate best practices, mentor less senior team members and provide technical guidance.

Main Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and contribute hands-on to the technical work assigned to the team.

• Supervise and implement appropriate remediation paths for technical KPIs

• Collaborate with the Agile Delivery Managers, Software Engineering Managers, the Architects and all the other stakeholders to provide robust planning and execution against the assigned deliverables.

• Contribute to cross-team activities, such as the development of standards and processes, as well as ensuring compliance with these.

• Serve as a technical point of contact for the team

• Manage and encourage new ideas from staff to foster improvement through innovation.

• Build and promote a positive culture and working environment within the team and the organization.

• Issuing escalation and validation of plans and progress management

• Contributing to cost and effort estimation as well as support data discovery and analysis

• Empower the staff to be accountable and responsible for their own actions and decisions.

• Be accountable for front2back development including DevOps, LSEG PDLC, Security, Stability, Capacity, Resiliency, and Maintainability

• Oversee development and unit testing of the application.

• Sprint planning and attending retrospective call , daily stand-up call for the agile scrum process.

• Review user stories and acceptance criteria with the team

• Collaborate closely with QA team for any test/UAT releases and agree the test plans.

• Follow the release management process

• Providing support for critical production issue.

• Keeping the technical document and the project artefacts up to date.

• Review and optimize the performance of the application on Java and database side.

• Provide application L3 support if needed

Required Skills:

• Min 5 years experience with building APIs and microservices using Java

• Experience with building event-driven solutions

• Spring Framework and related modules such as Spring Batch, MVC, Data Access & Security.

• Experience designing and developing microservices in Java

• Experience with building robust integrations

• Experience with building datastore solutions

• Experience with Cloud Native technologies on at least one of the major cloud services providers (AWS preferable, Google Cloud or Azure)

• Experience with building a complete full-stack solution

• Build automation tools to support CI/CD pipeline

• Unit and functional testing

• Git source control

• Core Java experience

• Databases & SQL skills using PostgreSQL

• Web application frameworks and API technologies e.g. Swagger,

• Backend architectures understanding including integration patterns

Key Behaviour

• Be comfortable working in a fast-moving environment where needs evolve rapidly and priorities change

• A passion for learning and innovation is critical

• Ability to apply analytical and creative thought and translate into technical solutions

• Ability to resolve complex technical issues

• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

• Experience mobilizing and shaping technical teams

• Interested in the evolution of the Equities, FX and Derivatives trading landscape.

Benefits:

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

25 days’ holiday per year

1 additional day off for your Birthday

Annual wellness allowance

Share Purchase Plan

Medical Health Insurance

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