Senior Java Developer
HOUSTON-77015, TX, US
02/07/2020
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Required Skills
Company
Infinity Consulting Solutions, Inc
Experience
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Job Description
As a lead developer within the Global Equity Derivatives Risk Management team you will help drive the delivery of a best in class platform that provides intra-day and overnight pricing, risk computation, and scenario-driven analysis for a wide range of complex financial products.
The individual selected for this role will combine a unique mix of strong hands-on development skill, involvement in technical design and architecture decisions, and ability to draw on deep experience to provide technical leadership and mentoring to a new and growing team of technologists.
You will drive the full delivery lifecycle, from requirements gathering, helping take the strategy through to design, development, testing, deployment and support.
The successful candidate must be passionate about working in a fast moving environment, collaborating across a global team of multiple disciplines and agile development process.
The candidate must be excited about working with new technologies and continually learning and evolving their skillset.
Key Responsibilities
Work directly with business, quant and technology teams to articulate new technology requirements and solve business problems.
Collaborate with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas / solutions, and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team.
Develop specific enhancements and/or build new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements.
Work closely with other technology teams to ensure that required changes are made in other systems.
Ensure technology solutions meet business and client requirements, that they are robust and supportable.
Where appropriate, define the development plan and milestones, and ensure delivery is in line with initial plan and strategy.
Document release procedures and support notes for deliverables so that support can be handed over to operate groups.
Provide 3rd Level production support on a rota basis – analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to operate and support groups, and identify opportunities to
improve the production system.
Essential skills
Experience in technical leadership roles, working with teams of developers with varying levels of experience, and a range of different backgrounds and skillsets.
Excellent understanding of Java Core concepts, including memory management, multi-threading, and new language features up to Java 7 or Java 8.
Strong experience with Java Enterprise technologies, including JMS, JAX-RS, REST based services, Hibernate, Bootstrap, etc.
Experience with other languages and platforms, particularly Python. Demonstrated ability to switch between different technologies effectively.
Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments, ability to navigate the system, investigate processes and logs, manage crontab scheduled jobs, etc.
Experience supporting production environments, responding to user concerns, and taking ownership of production issues.
Experience working in a 3rd Level advanced support capacity. Experience with distributed server-side applications.
Exposure to a range of open-source technologies and cloud computing; including Apache technologies – Tomcat, Spark, Cassandra, Lucene.
Experience with full development lifecycle and tools, including Git, Jira, Jenkins, Ant, Maven, TeamCity.
Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using tools such as JUnit and mocking frameworks.
Excellent communication skills and enthusiasm to work on a globally distributed team
Desirable skills
Experience with Databases – relational as well as No-SQL - Sybase / Cassandra / Mongo DB
Experience with Messaging Middlewares - Kafka / Qpid / Sonic / MQ / Tibco
Experience with Continuous Integration Tools - Team City / Jenkins, gradle etc
Experience of working in financial services / Understanding of equity derivative products
Familiarity with ElasticSearch, Cloud services.
Qualifications
Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, Physics or other technical major
Object Oriented Analysis and Design
Over 8 years experience in application development with recent hands-on responsibilities
Commitment and drive
Senior Java Architect
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Candidate Requirements
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Bachelors
Walkin Information
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1/24/2020
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Recruiter Details
Doug Klares
1350 Broadway, Suite 2205,
NEW YORK-10018, NY
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