Principal Consultant - JAVA Developer

Principal Consultant - JAVA Developer
Location: London, England, United Kingdom

Office space available at location listed Hybrid - Compulsory 2 days onsite.

Industry: Information Technology
Job Category: Information Technology - Developer
Compensation: GBP £60,000 to £70,000

Full-time
Benefits - Full
Relocation Assistance Available - No
Commission Compensation - No
Bonus Eligible - No
Overtime Eligible - No
Interview Travel Reimbursed - No

Candidate Details: 7+ to 10 years experience
Seniority Level - Mid-Senior
Management Experience Required - Yes
Minimum Education - Bachelor's Degree
Willingness to Travel - Occasionally

Security Clearance Required: No
Visa Candidate Considered: No

Inviting applications for the role of Principal Consultant - JAVA Developer
The role covers primarily programmer with experience in Java development. The role involves enhancement and migration of the existing code base requiring good knowledge of designing performance efficient solutions. Ability to understand business flows is also key in order to support and maintain the existing systems.

Responsibilities!
Rapid assimilation & understanding of existing applications and technical environment.
A desire to take responsibility and ownership of components/processes within the team
Pragmatic approach to problem solving
Ability to communicate and work effectively within the peer group
Reporting to the development manager:
Support a suite of existing applications within the Cash Trade Processing world.
Make both tactical / strategic changes to the established code base
Provide status reports to a wide audience
Liaise with Developers/Business Analysts/Stakeholders within region, and in other regions.
Support the existing applications.
Application area is Cash Trade Processing.
Trade Validation/Enrichment
Exception management

Must Have's:
Core Java, Collections.
Working knowledge on XML and JSON focused on parsing and processing
Performance: High throughput processing
MQ based message processing

Good to Have's:
Cloud: Docker Containerization.

Minimum qualifications
Degree in Computer Science, or other numerate discipline
Preferred qualifications
Extensive Java programming experience
Investment Bank Back Office Experience
Degree in Computer Science, or other numerate discipline
Relational Database, pref. Sybase
Unix knowledge
Minimum 8-10 years commercial IT Experience.

Desired qualifications
XML/JSON processing experience.
Microsoft MS-SQL Server
Streaming Platforms
Microservices
Docker/podman

Screening Questions
Work Authorization status - Local Citizen or No visa sponsor required
Notice period - less than 30 days

Ideal Candidate
Core Java, Collections.
Working knowledge on XML and JSON focused on parsing and processing
Performance: High throughput processing
MQ based message processing Good to Have's:
Cloud: Docker Containerization