Technical Application Specialist Java Engineer, AS

Engineer is responsible for managing or performing work across multiple areas of the bank's overall IT Platform/Infrastructure including analysis, development, and administration. It may also involve taking functional oversight of engineering delivery for specific departments. Work includes:

• Planning and developing entire engineering solutions to accomplish business goals
• Building reliability and resiliency into solutions with appropriate testing and reviewing throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Ensuring maintainability and reusability of engineering solutions
• Ensuring solutions are well architected and can be integrated successfully into the end-to-end business process flow
• Reviewing engineering plans and quality to drive re-use and improve engineering capability
• Participating in industry forums to drive adoption of innovative technologies, tools and solutions in the Bank.

Your key responsibilities

• Support application in Production.
• Perform root cause analysis on production issues and provide recommendations to mitigate risks.
• Work with development teams and architects to design and implement technology solutions with a high level of quality, flexibility and scalability.
• Develop new functionality to support internal and external business requirements.
• Demonstrate the enhancements and features to business group and incorporate their feedback appropriately in the development backlog.
• Perform system integration testing.
• Work on integration of the application with authentication/authorization and monitoring tools.
• Perform IT Application Owner responsibilities for the application, e.g. ensure that all the necessary infrastructure upgrades are completed.
• Work to modernize and upgrade the codebase to make it Sonar compliant.
• Develop and test the security vulnerabilities identified as a part of annual Penetration testing performed by an external vendor.
• Develop and maintain standard project artifacts to comply with development protocols.
• Analyze and document current state systems flows and processes to bring transparency to the complexity and interdependence between systems and data.
• Work on and obtain approvals on various Operational Resiliency controls required for each release and certify the quality of each release.

Your skills and experience

• Minimum 5-year experience in developing maintainable applications.
• Knowledge of financial service industry a plus.
• Enterprise application development using modern stack technology.
• Technical knowledge in developing applications with skills in Java, Spring Boot, Spring MVC,REST APIs, Hibernate, Microservices, and SQL.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline tools/frameworks (Jenkins, Maven).
• Knowledge of application logs monitoring using Splunk.
• Experience in creating, merging branches and maintaining releases in Bitbucket as a version control repository.
• Working knowledge of SDLC and Agile methodologies and associated tools (mainly JIRA, confluence).
• Knowledge of hosting application in cloud environment.
• Data / Technical architecture experience.
• Must possess strong analytical skills and attention to details.
• Ability to partner with front / middle office and development teams to achieve objectives and execute or drive project plan as required.
• Inquisitive nature and able to ask pertinent questions that tease out issues and drive the analysis forward.
• Ability to multi-task in a high-pressure environment.
• Ability to pick up new product and technical knowledge quickly.
• Ability to quickly learn new and complex processes.
• Able to set own targets and timelines and manage delivery expectations with users.
• Excellent communication skills; fluent in English (written and verbal).