Java Full-stack Deployment Engineer (Java Full-stack Deployment Engineer (Financial Services, Portfolio Accounting Domain)

Role: Java Full-stack Deployment Engineer (Financial Services, Portfolio Accounting Domain)

Duration: 12 Months

Location: Chicago,IL (Hybrid 2-3 days onsite)

Job Description:

Client a leading asset servicing and custodian is currently looking for a JAVA full-stack engineer to join our growing Portfolio Accounting and Data Services team. This is a hands-on role in an enterprise-wide data and digital transformation initiative and delivers excellent user experience for delivering accounting services to its clients.

A successful candidate will be customer-centric with a passion for leveraging modern cloud architectures and technology to make significant business impacts across organizational boundaries. The candidate specializes in full stack development and implementing endto-end components of custom applications.

S/He Involves designing and developing the Ul, business logic, data & integration layer along with testing and mäintenance of these layers-- creating, querying & manipulating databases, APls and integration, Front-end code (HTML/CSS, bootstrap, React JS) and web stack back-end technologies (Java, Springboot and Azure cloud etc.).

This full-stack lead will bring in the experience of SaaS/cloud solutions (Azure)/web development and best practices in building, maintaining, and enhancing state of the art client-facing applications in a hybrid-cloud environment.

Responsibilities:

·        Work as a Data Engineer and Software Engineer to design and deliver a Cloud-based application as the layer of client's Accounting platform.

·        Manage production deployments of the full-stack application on Azure environments and help system troubleshooting and defect triage in production.

·        Provide technical support and assistance in troubleshooting, configuring, and performance tuning packaged solutions and tools, such as Azure Kubernetes Services, AirFlow and etc.

·        Partner with Agile Scrum Master to keep the team organized, on track, and focused on priorities.

·        Document business requirements and application architecture and developmental best practices related to system design.

·        Evaluate, prototype, and recommend emerging Cloud technologies and platforms from open source or vendors.

·        Independently conduct POC projects.

·        Be a hands-on practical leader to ensure both functional and non-functional requirements (e.g., security, performance, availability and DR/fail-over, scalability, compliance etc.) are properly articulated, designed, implemented, and well documented in the entire software development life cycle.

·        Communicate complex technical topics to non-technical business and senior executives and assist with scoping and architecting cloud data solutions.

Required

10+ years development experience using Java, Springboot, SQL and NoSQL databases 

Strong understanding of enterprise architecture and development patterns and best practices 3+ years of experience designing and building cloud-native applications, microservices preferably using Azure or AWS

Strong experience deploying and hosting applications in containers and Kubernetes

Experience in Single Page Applications using React

Strong Experience in Software Delivery following Agile practices and Azure DevOps

Strong understanding of REST APls and how to use them in practice.

Strong Experience with continuous integration and collaboration tools like Azure DevOps, JIRA, Bitbucket, GitHub (esp GitActions) and Confluence.

Strong Experience with unit testing and test automation tools and frameworks like JUnit, Jasmine, Jest etc.

Experience with Azure, AKS for use in Financial industry with associated resiliency, scalability, failover, & elasticity of Infra resources.

Preferred Specific Skills:

Experience with DevOps or DevSecOps.

Knowledge of laC and automation such as Terraform preferred.

Knowledge of the financial services industry, Portfolio Accounting preferred