Senior Java Software Engineer
2 days ago
Sheffield
Role : Senior Java Developer Location : Sheffield, UK (Hybrid) Employment type : Contract Experience required : 8+ Years Must have: Java, API, Microservices, Kafaka, AWS/Azure/GCP, Banking/Payment experience The role including below major accountabilities: • Set the level expected for software delivery within the team, leading by example, • Serve as expert in area of responsibility, identifies process improvements and problem prevention, and advises department and management of relevant information as appropriate, • Provides analysis and solutions to technical and business issues, • Understand and apply technology and corporate vision setting direction on implementation., • Maintain awareness of business and technology strategies and implements technical alternatives and strategies to gain competitive advantage, • Maintains the complex technical infrastructure of assigned area to meet the business requirements., • Provides technical solutions to business problems, technical leadership and direction to management., • Remain current on technical and professional advances and business strategies regarding area of responsibility, • Resolve architectural or development blockers raised, • Partner with DevOps team to enable automated infrastructure delivery, DevSecOps value streams are executed and CI /CD pipelines to deploy services, • Initiate analysis for complex problems and issues, determine technical alternatives, analyse vendor solutions and negotiate contracts, and develop appropriate standards for technology application., • Provide technical leadership and consultation to project team members as directed by the project manager, • Initiate and conduct feasibility studies of new and modified operational procedures., • For large systems, prepare cost/benefit analyses, functional and detail specifications, • Provide direct guidance in planning, designing, programming, documentation and implementation of the systems, • Perform reviews of new and existing systems to ensure operational integrity and accomplishment of stated objective, • Design, code, test, debug and document programs as required., • Provide architecture guidance to developers based on best practices and in alignment with global standards, • Ensuring compliance with all relevant controls and standards, • Keep up-to-date and have expertise on current tools, technologies and areas like cyber security and regulations pertaining to aspects like data privacy, consent, data residency etc. that are applicable Qualifications Knowledge & Experience / Qualifications • Bachelor’s Degree required in Computer Science, Engineering or related majors, • Minimum of 8 years’ applied experience as an API engineer, • Strong experience in API designing and creating architectural artefacts such as gap analysis, low level designs, data models etc., • More than 5 years of engineering background in back-end microservices application development, application security and authentication development, cache and middleware, • More than 8 years’ experience programming in Java and ideally Go and Rust, • Expertise in JVM tuning and diagnostic for application troubleshooting and performance-optimization, • Expertise in distributed system design including microservices, Springboot, • Experience working with Kafka, Docker, k8s, service mesh, • Experience with monitoring and observability technologies: Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, Kiali, Open Telemetry, • Experience in cloud and DevOps, familiar to network (VPC) and firewall on cloud, identity and access management, cloud delivery including sizing and costing, • Demonstrable knowledge on infrastructure like Linux OS, networking, storage, network load-balancing, Kubernetes CNI., • Strong SQL coding abilities is preferred, • Experience of working in a financial institution, ideally in payments, • Ability to work independently and think out of the box, • The passion and ability to lead/motivate and develop technologist, including mentoring and coaching., • Superior listening skills, ability to learn quickly, and willing to accept accountability for company and individual success, • Extensive critical thinking skills for problem identification and solution recommendation, • Exceptional team player that can lead others in demonstrating initiative and sound business judgment and is interested in expanding skills and growing professionally, • Highly flexible, set priorities and meet deadlines in a changing environment, • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, ability to negotiate, resolve conflicts and influence technical choices relating to business, development and architectural requirements