Senior Java Developer

Wealth Management Technology

We are seeking a Senior Java Developer who will be responsible for project-team leadership, support and direction with business systems analysis, development and occasional maintenance support in an object/service oriented architecture implemented on the Java platform, and also: Collaborates with Senior Systems Architects, Software Team Leads and other Software Developers to design, develop and deploy technical solutions

Job Description:

- Analyzes complex information, designs, develops and troubleshoots database applications

- Reviews functional requirements and prepares and documents technical program, subsystem and system designs and solutions and their associated project task descriptions and effort estimates

- Uses both industry-standards and company's existing systems architecture, design techniques and development standards and reviews new work with others to ensure it complies with industry and company standards

- Documents technical requirements, program and subsystem designs, project task descriptions, effort estimates, and unit and integration tests

- Performs new development, maintenance fixes and enhancements to meet business requirements

- Assists other teams to troubleshoot application issues in production, quality assurance and other environments

- Develops, reviews, refines, uses and documents plans for both automated and manual unit and integration tests and/or assures unit and integration tests are successfully completed prior to production

- Tests programs for integration prior to production

- Mentors other software developers and IT staff members

- Documents resolutions to system problems

- Documents designs for system requirements

Minimum Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree (pref. Computer Science or related degree) or equivalent experience

- Minimum of 6 years' experience in:

- Highly self-motivated, with the ability to complete tasks with minimal guidance, and to learn independently

- Excellent analytical and problem solving abilities

- Excellent English verbal and written communication skills

- Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills in working in a cross-functional team comprised of Product Analysts, QA, UAT, Development and PMO members

- Ability to juggle tasks and priorities to meet rapidly changing deadlines

- Must work with System Architects to review/approve program and subsystem designs

- Proficiency in UNIX/Linux and Microsoft Windows distributed computing

- Basic skills with Excel spreadsheets and Word documents Preferred Experience and Skills

- Background in Securities/Banking/Financial Services

- Java IDE (preferably IntelliJ IDEA)? Unix/Linux

- XML and/or Web Services

- JDBC and JPA/Hibernate

- Relational DB principles using Structured Query Language (SQL)

- Agile/Scrum methodologies

- Experience working in a desktop Linux environment (preferably CentOS)

- Experience working with an issue management system

- Experience working with a wiki