Senior Software Engineer (Java)

Salary: £66,000 – £144,000 per year

Job Details:

Our client is the UK’s leading bank with over 30m customers and its biggest digital bank, with over 13 million active online customers. They’ve placed an ambitious transformation programme and a multi-channel approach to banking at the heart of their strategy to be the best bank for customers, backed by significant investment in their platforms and people.

This role is within the Sales and Trading Lab within the Markets Division of Group Transformation, responsible for the trading applications and work closely with the Front Office Sales & Trading Teams, ensuring high quality, scalable solutions.

The team are composed of; A Product owner, a Scrum master and Quality and Software engineers, you will be reporting to the Software Engineering lead and be based in London. You will cover business colleagues across Sales & Trading, whilst supporting other areas who use the software as a service.

Our clients team mission is to deliver high quality software, to ensure S&T delivery maintains high quality with minimal incidents, whilst building trusted relationships within IT and the business. They look to work in an agile and collaborative manner, always learning and improving themselves and sharing knowledge with the wider team.

The successful candidate will work as part of the team covering Intraday Risk and PnL management software, developing a broad understanding of the systems and the business while developing and maintaining the platform. The job includes responsibility for changing and supporting the systems at a 3rd line support level.

Key Responsibilities:

Primarily you will focus on the development, maintenance and testing of new Java based software to support the S&T team, over the full software development lifecycle. Specific activities could include:

* Developing well tested and robust code using Java and Spring in an Agile project environment, delivering value driven releases.

* Delivering front office Risk software to a high standard

* Identification of opportunities to automate and simplify

* System and component ownership

* Responsible for further production investigation, when handed over from support teams

* Providing system guidance, where needed to Business Analysts, Product Owners, support team and other consumers of the service

* Prepare changes to the required standard and complete all necessary audit artefacts

* Adhere to our client’s audit and control processes, SLA’s and behaviours

* Ad-hoc requests for information and subject matter expertise.

* Coaching and mentoring of more junior development staff

This is a really important role because you’ll support our clients intraday risk management platform development, which is critical to their traders for managing risk for their customers.

Key Skills:

As this is a senior engineering position within a key regulatory function, our client requires specific experience of both the technical elements plus ideally a background within Markets in order to safely develop the software they require. Specifically, they would need to see evidence of:

* Prior background in a senior level Java software engineering role

* High level of skill in Java

* Good working knowledge of Business intelligence software

* Capital Markets Risk management experience

* Experience working within the demands of a front office environment

* Kafka experience – Good working knowledge

* Experience working within an Agile project environment & the ability to multi task in a pressurised environment.

If you have experience of any of the following desirable skills that would be a bonus, but please apply if you don’t! Active Pivot, Service now knowledge, Automation experience, Cloud experience, Containerisation experience (Docker, Kubernetes)

How to Apply:

If you meet the above criteria for the Senior Java Software Engineer role, please respond to this with an up-to-date copy of your CV. Our office hours are between 9am – 5pm Monday through to Friday. You may not hear from us straight away due to the level of applications we receive every day. We can only respond to applicants whose skills and qualifications are suitable for this position.

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