Senior Java Developer

Senior Java Developer for a 12 month contract position with a financial services client located in Jersey City, NJ. This is a hybrid position and requires being onsite 3 days per week.
Responsibilities:

• Work in an agile and fast-paced environment interfacing with management, business and senior technology members
• Design and develop applications utilizing complex Java/JEE technologies and middleware systems
• Build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Manage end-to-end development cycle from requirements analysis, coding, testing and maintenance
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Provide status updates, proper escalations & reporting to management & business
• Manage Source Code repository and support production releases
• Identify and assist in resolution of risks and issues that will adversely affect planned project milestones
• Understand technical and Business processes of various front office, trading and settlement applications

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or foreign education equivalent in Computer Science or Engineering with at least 10 years of experience performing Java/JEE software engineering within a financial services environment.
• Technical skills:
• JAVA, JEE, Spring, Hibernate
• AI
• Production support
• Perl or Python
• Apache Spark & Apache Tomcat
• Sybase/SQL Server Database
• REST/SOAP Web Services
• Unix/Linux, Perl, Shell Scripting fundamentals
• JMS, MQ, Tibco, Solace, Kafka
• Maven, SVN, GIT
• Eclipse or IntelliJ
• Jenkins, Ansible, Kubernetes
• Cloud Architecture and technologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in computer science with 10 years of hands on design & development experience
• Knowledge on prime services domain
• Experience working in financial industry