Job Description

Java Developer

Glasgow

As a Java Developer, you will be joining Markets Post Trade team within Functions

technology area. You will play an instrumental role in implementing the firm’s settlements

and clearing functions technology. This includes building and maintaining the firm’s domestic

and international securities and cash post trade platforms and strategic architecture

components.

My client is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329

years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless

opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and

digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

Working Flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to

work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs,

alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our

employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our

lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you

have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to

pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance

your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager,

and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which

means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the

office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it

may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that

colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could

be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend

more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a

flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to

request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of

the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Contributing to the technical architecture of existing, and new systems

• Designing, developing and improving technical features such as messaging, release

engineering, caching, failover and alerting, using Java and related technologies

• Designing and implementing client, and server-side business functions in Java and other

technologies

• Liaising with other teams in evaluating new features and improvements

• Taking part in technical preparations for global releases

• Communicating with the global development team, escalating issues on time

• Ensuring consistent high code quality through unit and integration testing

• Evaluating performance, suggesting and implementing improvements

What we’re looking for:

• Extensive hands-on experience with Java, Linux, Databases, Web Services, REST APIs,

Spring Boot & Unit Testing / Automated Testing

• Proven ability to design and develop enterprise level software solutions using tools and

techniques such as Source Control, Build Tools (e.g. Maven), TDD, automated CI/CD

• Good problem solving skills

• Solid communication and collaboration skills

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Experience in building highly reliable, high-performance, scalable, distributed systems,

and service oriented architectures

• Experience with MQ and Kafka, while not essential, would be an advantage

• Exposure to Cloud deployment using Docker, Kubernetes, AWS

• Advanced knowledge of Unix, Shell Scripting, and Autosys