Senior Java Engineer (Azure) - Finance - London
Daily rate: €500 - €700 (inside IR35)
Duration: 12 months
Hybrid: 8 days per month
Start: ASAP
A banking client of mine is looking for a Senior Java Engineer with Azure and Kafka experience to join the team on a freelance basis. We are specifically looking for an individual with strong Core Java expertise, as this role primarily involves server-side development. Must be based in the UK and happy to be on site 8 days per month which is mandatory.
Responsibilities & Duties
*Working as part of an Agile development team to deliver the migration of the legacy application to new event-based and service-oriented architecture solution, working in collaboration with the Solution Architect, Technical Lead, Application architects and other stakeholders.
*Lead delivery of a coherent end-to-end IT solution that meets both functional and non-functional requirements.
*Ensuring that the IT solution complies with the Enterprise engineering and architecture standards.
*Ensuring end-to-end consistency of solution delivery across platforms and teams by, for instance, organising walkthroughs of the solution with delivery teams.
*Ensuring that the solution meets guidelines and standards for design and development.
*Undertaking hands-on development and coaching staff in the new technologies used; The successful candidate will be expected to support the development of more junior colleagues
Technical Skills:
*Strong systems development experience at all stages of systems development covering design, development, testing, live implementation and post implementation support.
*Strong hands-on Object-Oriented Design skills
*Strong core Java programming skills
*Experience of developing services/micro-services in Java
*Experience of developing containerised services using Docker and Kubernetes
*Hands-on SpringBoot skills
*Experience of developing and deploying on Unix or Linux
*Hands-on experience of using the Kafka ecosystem
*Experience of profiling and performance tuning
*Experience of Behaviour-Driven and Test-Driven development principles and skills
*Experience of Public Cloud development
Desirable Skills:
*Working in an Agile development team
*Designing and implementing platform independent, database independent event driven applications
*Database design skills in technologies such as Oracle
*Splunk
*DevOps principles, processes and tooling
*IBM MQ
*Messaging Standards, for example ISO 15022, ISO 20022 and JSON
*Working in Financial Market Infrastructure and/or Regulated environments
*Rates depend on experience and client requirements