Banking Java/Python - Software Developer/Applications Developer - Lond

Banking Java/Python - Software Developer/Applications Developer - London

£68,000 plus extensive benefits - London

Our client is looking for an experienced Banking Java/Python - Software Developer/Applications Developer to join their Banks Applications Support team. Your role will be to develop and update code as well as provide 3rd line application support.

You will be joining a team that supports a set of applications for the Global Market Equity & Derivative, QIS, Fund Derivatives and Corporate Derivatives parts of their Tier 1 Investment Banking client. The areas of the bank being supported include the Front Office/Trading (Cash, Flow, Exotic, Prime Finance), Middle Office, Market Risk and downstream groups who need the data for client and regulatory reporting, plus internal Profit & Loss, and Risk Management.

Essential experience required for the Banking Java/Python - Software Developer/Applications Developer:

• Proficiency in either Python or Java is essential.
• Given the drive for automation and requirement for high quality and reliability, a background in development with experience in DevOps pipelines in an agile environment would be a distinct advantage.
• Strong experience with Spring/Maven/Git/Artifactory/SonarQube.
• Knowledge of infrastructure, networking, security best practices and automation.
• Experience with technologies such as OpenShift, Kubernetes and Docker and cloud providers AWS/Azure/GCP is beneficial.
• Experience in performance monitoring and tuning, both at the Java Virtual Machine level and application level - eg building reactive data analytics pipelines leveraging historical and live/streaming metrics: Elastic Search, Kafka.

The ideal person for the Banking Java/Python - Software Developer/Applications Developer position, will have good experience of working within a bank. Experience with Equity and Derivatives and Prime Finance businesses from a trading, order management, pricing or risk management perspective would be a bonus but is not essential.

Job role responsibilities for the Banking Java/Python - Software Developer/Applications Developer:

• Contribute to the delivery of new functionalities, regulatory requirements, automation and optimization initiatives.
• Liaise with the leadership, engineering, operations and release teams to automate and guarantee the successful deployment and evolution of the platform and share best practices.
• Optimise the utilisation of the existing hardware, provide clarity in term of hardware utilisation, costs and cost reduction initiatives.
• Contribute to the Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) processes.
• Contribute to the production support of the existing applications and provision of timely responses to both direct users and downstream systems.
• Contribute to the definition and execution of the future strategic technology solutions, with a focus on migration to GCP.

Banking Java/Python - Software Developer/Applications Developer - London

£68,000 plus extensive benefits - London