Senior Java Developer - IPA | Integration Team

The Mission

In Financial Markets, building a platform integrating your own pricing and risk models is crucial to stay in control of your risk while keeping a competitive edge. Their Financial Markets has taken up the challenge by initiating the building of their Pricing Architecture (IPA) platform.

The IPA project landscape consists of service-oriented components that will enable the real-time and portfolio calculations of financial risk metrics and simulations (e.g. VaR, Expected Shortfall, Bilateral Margining) which are driven by new ECB regulation as well as advanced Risk analysis on the derivative product portfolio of Financial Markets (interest rates, credits, foreign exchange). This will be a key platform in the IT landscape for their global dealing rooms, with many scrum teams cooperating towards one Financial Markets IT landscape.

The Integration team is at the center of the IPA architecture and is an essential part of the IPA domain. The main application developed and maintained by the team is an orchestrator system used for linking different services provided by the other IPA components to build workflows that realize a vast number of calculations and reports. The Integration team is responsible for:

• Developing features for the Orchestrator system to enrich the existing functionality
• Exposing the workflows functionality through web services to the other IPA components
• Maintaining the front end interface used to interact directly with the Orchestrator system
• Keeping up to date the workflow designs definitions used for IPA processes

As a Senior Java Developer you will:

• Be actively engaged in the design, development, unit/integration test of a strategic Pricing and Risk Management platform.
• You would be required to maintain and enhance the current platform components and to create new components for new features according to the Architecture guidelines.
• Work with Java 8 with a strong focus on functional programming;
• Work with Spring Boot and other Spring modules (web, data, security) or any other dependency injection framework;
• Work with streaming technologies such as JMS for service orchestration;
• Design and develop gRPC and REST services in a Big Data ecosystem;
• Apply Domain-Driven Design and Test-Driven Design principles in your day to day development
• Have a performance mindset in terms of being familiar with API performance benchmarking, garbage collection fine-tuning, application profiling, processing and transferring large data sets, facilitating real-time results, designing features in a scalable architecture;
• Have a focus on quality while working with JUnit, Mockito, Power Mock, as well as BDD frameworks such as Cucumber;
• Get to play with their Private Cloud while using the Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline
• Advising on projects: proposing solutions, estimating workload, integrating solutions in the process of maintenance and releases
• Acquiring an understanding of the various stakeholders and being a trusted advisor for managers when determining, laying the foundations, and/or designing the solution or reference

Your key competencies:

• Excellent team player in an international team, quality-focused, service-oriented, eager to learn and to coach others;
• You embrace and drive technical change in the project;
• You are curious and understand the latest developments in the technical and financial services;
• You show an interest in the Financial Market domain and eager to learn more
• You are able to discuss with your stakeholders and product owner about features and stories and can translate these into the software with real business value;
• You have a good understanding of Software Architecture;
• Have strong analytical and problem-solving skills

What you bring to the team:

• A University degree in Computer Science, Cybernetics, Software Engineering, Financial Engineering or equivalent;
• 5+ years of Java software engineering experience;
• Advanced knowledge of Java 8;
• Experience with Spring or other dependency injection frameworks;
• Experience in developing automated testing;
• Familiarity Azure DevOps or similar tools such as Maven, Gitlab, Jenkins, Confluence;
• Experience or affinity with IT Security concepts;
• Strong analytical skills, proactivity and willingness to share knowledge with others;
• End-to-end ownership mindset: Independent and autonomous in completing tasks, taking responsibilities whenever needed as always striving for consumer value;
• Good communication skills, in English and Romanian;

Nice to have:

• Experience with front end development in Javascript frameworks Angular, LitHtml;
• Experience working with microservices.
• Experience working with OSGI frameworks.