Java Developer

6 Month contract - Inside IR35 - Investment Banking

Our industry leading investment banking client is looking for a Java Developer on a 6 month contract inside IR35, with a requirement to be in the London Marylebone office

Core accountabilities of role:

• Respecting the Risk Systems SDLC methodology and wider BNP Paribas strategies, best practices and standards and tools.
• Ensuring that all effort is clearly tied to an item in the book of work, and communicated to the Scrum Master and Product Owner
• Participating in Quarterly Planning and creating Iteration plans and Team Quarterly Objectives
• Collaborating with the Product Owner to create and refine user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Developing and committing to Team Quarterly Objectives and Iteration goals
• Working with the Product Owner to confirm that the code and acceptance tests reflect the desired functionality.
• Writing clean code using software craftmanship techniques.
• Conducting research, design, prototyping and other exploration activities
• Creating unit tests and automated acceptance tests
• Using design and coding best practices to build high-quality components and solutions.
• Checking new code into the shared source code repository
• Participating in code reviews to ensure peers code adhere to standards and provide guidance with functional and technical aspects where needed.
• Where necessary pairing with other developers to write quality code
• Executing acceptance tests and maintaining the test cases in a shared repository
• Continuous improvement of the team’s process
• Providing 3rd line support for designated Data Platform components.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering is preferred

Experience and Knowledge:

• Experience developing engineering applications for a large corporation.
• Proven experience of technical leadership and solution design.
• Proven experience of programming on several large-scale systems (large data or compute volume)

Essential Skills:

• Expert knowledge in one of our languages: Java (Spring, multithreading)
• Kafka, ReST APIs, Caching, S3, large distributed systems knowledge
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery / Continuous Testing practices
• Result Oriented
• Technical analysis

Preferred Skills:

• DevOps: Ansible
• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
• Programming knowledge in a second language: Python