Software Developer, Trade Processing - Vice President

6 month contract - Inside IR35 (Umbrella) - Investment Banking

Location: London or Glasgow

50% office presence required

The Candidate:

· Will be responsible for the full development lifecycle of a project from design, to deployment

in production and post release supportability.

· Will ensure end-deliverables are clearly defined and communicated; ensure that stakeholders

are kept informed of each deliverable's progress, issues and risks.

· Will pro-actively manage risk & issues - escalating where appropriate - ensuring delivery

progress is maintained.

· Will work in projects with an agile methodology delivering incremental deliverables that improve

the business functionality whilst limiting risk to Production systems

· Will work closely with the business, operations and development teams to design, deliver

and implement future state architecture.

· Will partner with the architecture teams to ensure robust design and adherence to bank

wide architectural goals.

· Will design solutions that align technology roadmaps to business strategy and conduct high-

quality functional design, system, integration testing and UAT.

· Will work closely with Production Management APS to deliver a stable & reliable platform under

all necessary controls

Knowledge, Skill and Experience

· 8+ years' experience in commercial software development.

· Strong core Java and backend engineering skills, with experience designing, building and

maintaining reliable, scalable applications.

· Good SQL skills and experience working with relational databases.

· Experience with test-driven development, delivery automation and good software

engineering practices.

· Experience with message-driven architectures and event-driven systems would be

beneficial.

· Experience with Kafka, Kafka Streams or Kafka Connect would also be beneficial.

· Experience working with applications deployed in Kubernetes environments would also be

beneficial.

· Has experience working in Unix / Linux operation systems.

· Has experience working with SDLC tools: Jira, BitBucket, Artifactory, Jenkins, etc

· Has experience working in a global team, helping others through pair programming and

knowledge sharing and helping the team improve their development practices.

· Shows excellent analytical and problem solving skills. Has a can-do attitude, can partner with

others inside and outside of the development team to investigate issues, drive conversations

to find and agree solutions and communicate those solutions to a diverse set of

stakeholders.

· Will be able to partner with business, operations, developers, architects and infrastructure

teams to help.

· Participate and involvement in shaping the future platform i.e. Design sessions

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.