Java Engineer Managing Devops AWS – Strong Banking exp in Whippany, NJ

Java Engineer Managing Devops AWS – Strong Banking exp
Location: Whippany, NJ (Hybrid)
Type: Contract
Duration: 12+ months

US Citizens, GC, visa holders preferred, NO third party corp to corp accepted for this job

Responsibilities:
Drive the FX migration effort for Cash Settlements Technology. This is a hands-on engineering role requiring detailed involvement in day to day development functions, disciplined strategic delivery expertise, and experience working in a distributed service environment.
Key accountabilities

• Drive the migration of FX products from existing Cash systems (80+ components) to a single set of services (Taurus) processing over 1trillion notional daily. Responsible for all aspects of front-to-back technology delivery - arch, infra, API, SDLC, CI/CD, devops efficiency.
• Work closely with stakeholders, development teams, and horizontal services to identify requirements and dependencies and design a single front-to-back target architecture.
• Own front-to-back non-functional delivery, including resiliency, data integrity, and performance. Ability to analyse and to test hypotheses objectively and completely.
• Create and execute on an incremental migration strategy leveraging Agile principles. Experience using scorecards to track progress of migrations to the strategic platform.
• Act as a central leadership point to project manager, business analyst, engineering teams, and testers. (Role is for an individual contributor.)

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of modern engineering principles, including: core Java expertise, container-based development, architecture modularization, in-memory event and stream-processing, Cloud (AWS) based service management, defining APIs, messaging protocols, integration with ADS (authorized data sources), resiliency, performance management, and dev ops best practices.
• Engineering expertise in Java development and dev ops practices (CI/CD pipeline, test automation)
• Strong background with modern tech design, including cloud-based platforms, in-memory data stores, APIs, networking, and messaging best practices.
• Proven success in buildout of a distributed platform and ongoing support in production
• Ability to effectively communicate technical strategy to senior stakeholders, peers and global development teams on build progress, delivery approach, and tradeoffs between time to market and functionality.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with diverse individuals and global teams.
• Understanding of trading flows at investment banks
• Engineering degree from top program

Desirable Skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Settlements
• Experience in a leadership role in large multiyear initiatives Java CICD