Minimum requirements

• A relevant IT degree or diploma.
• 10+ years of experience.
• 2 – 4 years of software development experience in a financial services environment.
• Experience in an investment environment will be an advantage.
• Experience in integrating different applications and technologies will be an advantage.
• Additional knowledge of the FICA Act and CDD-related systems will be an added advantage.

Advantage Skills  

• Exposure to Docker.
• Experience with Micro-services.
• Experience with Kubernetes & Camel-K
• Spring-Boot experience (General, Security & Authentication).
• Experience with test automation.
• AWS experience.
• Knowledge of building and maintaining build pipelines using Docker, CloudFormation, or Terraform 
• Experience setting up and using Postman, Insomnia, or SoapUI to create a suite of REST and SOAP services.
• Data Dog experience.

Responsibilities and work outputs 

• Identifies and communicates bottlenecks, design issues, bugs, and system errors to all stakeholders. Devises effective solutions to these problems and drives the resolution process to completion
• Effectively works in a high-pressure environment with constant change and challenges.
• Collaborates with BAs and senior developers to Break down complex problems and develop sustainable business solution.
• Collaborates with other Tech Leads to ensure all projects adhere to standards and best practices for app design and build pipeline design.
• Navigates the complex Micro Service environment, working on multiple systems to maintain them and provide higher-level solutions.. 
• Work in close alignment with the Architectural roadmap and collaboration with the Architect team to influence, improve, and plan the architectural roadmap.
• Mentor junior team members and review their code to ensure it meets company standards
• Oversee the Design, development , and maintenance of Java-based applications.
• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
•  Develop, refine, and tune integrations between applications to ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Conduct software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging.
• Analyze and resolve technical and application problems.

Technologies

• HTML / JavaScript.
• Angular and Material for the front-end design of JPA and Hibernate.
• Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, and Spring Data Mongo.
• JMS and Messaging technologies. IBM MQ, AWS SQS and Amazon MQ.
• XML and JSON-related technologies.
• Web services. REST and SOAP-based.
• Ability to read UML and participate in design sessions.
• Working knowledge of development design patterns.
• Sound object-orientated analysis, design, and development skills and expertise.
• Good understanding of agile development methodologies and practices.
• MongoDB and NoSQL-based databases.
• Good knowledge of Relational Database design and development (Oracle, PostgreSQL).
• Gradle.
• GIT, GitLab.
• Unit Testing JUnit/Mockito, Cucumber.
• Spring Security and OAuth2.
• DataDog or similar monitoring tools.
• Micrometer, Prometheus, and Grafana Monitoring and dashboards.
• LDAP/AD for security.
• Database migration tools like MongoCK and Flyway.