Project Description:
Our client is the corporate and investment banking arm of The Group, world's 12th largest bank by total assets.
We work daily with international branches located in 30 markets by:
- Envisioning and preparing the Bank's futures information systems
- Partnering and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large scale development projects.
- Providing premium In-house Banking applications,
This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market.
We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges.
Capital Markets IT involves technology solutions and systems used in financial markets for trading, investment, and related activities. This includes electronic trading platforms, risk management systems, market risk, counterparty risk, algorithmic trading, data analytics, and Regulatory measures. The use of advanced technologies like API's, artificial intelligence and cloud solutions are also becoming increasingly prevalent in capital markets to enhance efficiency and decision-making processes.
As an Application Developer, you will be responsible for developing features within a specific Delivery Team. You will work autonomously and follow a continuous improvement approach, ensuring high-quality code that adheres to our design, norms, and standards. You will be accountable for delivering solutions that meet both functional and non-functional requirements, taking into account the principles of Agile development.
Responsibilities:
- Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialized utility programs.
- Analyse user needs and develop software solutions, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.
- Update software, enhance existing software capabilities, and develop and direct software testing and validation procedures.
- Work with computer hardware engineers to integrate hardware and software systems and develop specifications and performance requirements.
- Build quality, shippable, and reusable code according to design and coding standards.
- Write simple, purposeful, and lean code that aligns with CMI project guidelines and quality standards.
- Perform peer reviews when needed to ensure code quality and adherence to best practices.
- Implement Configuration Management on each of your work items to ensure version control and traceability.
- Perform unit tests to verify functionality.
- Automate tests according to the test strategy, ensuring test coverage targets are met and adhering to software factory practices.
- Implement and perform technical tests as defined in the test strategy to ensure the software meets all requirements.
- Propose non-functional needs in sprints to ensure the software meets performance, security, and other non-functional requirements.
- Estimate, break down, and update User Stories and Tasks to ensure accurate project planning and tracking.
- Update Sprint Backlog to reflect progress and any changes in scope.
Mandatory Skills Description:
- Candidate should have minimally 1 to 4 years of experience in relevant activities.
- Master or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/ Information Technology/ Programming & Systems Analysis/ Science (Computer Studies) faculties.
- Good knowledge in UNIX platform
- Solution design using proven patterns, awareness of anti-patterns, performance tuning
- Java/J2EE, Spring, AngularJS, Spring MVC/Struts, Multi-threading, Restful web services, Swagger, JMS/WebSphere MQ, JavaScript, JQuery, XML, XSLT, Xpath, XSD
- Valuable exposure to tools & technologies like Elastic Search, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Control-M, KAFKA, Confluence, Jira, Gitlab, MQ Series, Mongo DB
- Well experienced and having good understanding on SQL language, relational databases - MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL
- Application server - Jboss/WildFly/ Websphere
- Experience in DevOps tooling (GIT, Maven/Graven/Nuget/Ansible, Jenkins...)
- Experience with Docker/Kubernetes
- Domain-Driven design and Microservices: Spring Boot
- Experience in supporting capital market applications and trading systems, ideally within the dynamic landscape of Market Risk/Front Office operations with a commendable grasp of financial products (Treasury, FX, Credit, IRD, Bonds, RSF etc.)
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