Java Developer

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Java Developer for a contract assignment with one of our premier financial services clients in Jersey City, NJ. Responsibilities :

• Develop and Deliver assigned development projects within agreed schedule, quality and scope expectations
• Participate in all stages of the SDLC within an agile Scrum environment
• Deliver implementations of vendor products into the firm
• Interact with senior management to define and drive architectural direction
• Interact with PMO and translate reported problems/issues into JIRA items to implement
• Enhance/Re-architect existing components to satisfy new performance and scalability requirements
• Provide level 3 (escalation) support for the application
• Ensure all components in the platform are fully compliant with the firms technology standards
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and help define operating standards and processes
• Serve as advisor, coach to new, or lower level analysts
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding the firm, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

• A minimum of 10 years of application development experience
• Experience leading a technical team including hiring, performance management, talent development
• Solid understanding of application infrastructures, including hardware, storage, network, databases, disaster recovery
• Strong grasp of algorithms and data structures and how to best apply them to build optimal software solutions
• Understanding of Metadata, its applications and management
• Logical thinking, Strong analytical and problem solving skills; innovative and solutions oriented
• Effective time management skills in order to manage multiple priorities with flexibility on time zones and timelines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to prepare and deliver effective presentation
• Proven experience building scalable, mission critical systems
• Strong preference of experience working in financial industry
• Java full stack technologies
• RDBMS, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle DB
• XML/XSD/XSLT and JSON
• Web services (SOAP, REST, etc.)
• Modern source control, build and continuous integration solutions
• UNIX/Linux Shell scripting
• Tomcat or Weblogic application server
• Tibco EMS and other message oriented middleware
• Windows scripting, PowerShell
• Autosys and scheduling
• Oracle and other RDBMS with strong SQL
• Experience in Cloud concepts and technologies: container build and orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, horizontal scaling
• Physical and logical data modeling
• Experience using JIRA, uDeploy, Sonarqube, TeamCity, Artifactory, BitBucket, Groovy, Maven/Gradle.
• Java - expert level
• Modern CI/CD (Git, Teamcity, UDeploy, SonarQube) - expert level
• RDBMS (Oracle, Postgres, etc.) - experienced
• J2EE/Webtech/JS - experienced
• Middleware (MQ, JMS, Kafka) - experienced
• ETL (Talend, Abinitio) - knowledgeable
• Big data tech (Spark, Hive, ELK, Hadoop) - knowledgeable

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (electronics) and/or computer science