Applications Developer
London
£55,000 - £68,000 plus extensive benefits package.
Are you an experienced Applications Developer with strong skills in either Python or Java?
Do you have financial services experience?
We have an outstanding opportunity available, for an experienced Applications Developer to join a banking application support team which supports a set of applications for the Global Market Equity and Derivative, QIS, Fund Derivative and Corporate Derivatives part of a 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.
Responsibilities for the 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
Essential Experience Required for the 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
- 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 - e.g. building reactive data analytics pipelines leveraging historical and live/streaming metrics: Elastic Search, Kafka
The ideal person 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
In return, my client offers the chance to work with a global Tier 1 company involved in many leading mission critical projects. They are highly regarded within the industry and are one of the largest independent technology & business services firms in the world. They consider employees as highly valued members of the business and offer extensive progression opportunities for those wishing to move further in their career on a local, national or global scale, as well as generous salaries and outstanding benefits packages.
Sound interesting and something you would love to be part of? Apply today!
Please note that Integral Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment agency in regard to this vacancy.