Primary Skills

• Strong systems development experience at all stages of systems development covering design, development, testing and implementation and post implementation support
• Strong hands-on Object-Oriented Design skills
• Strong core Java programming skills
• Experience of developing services/micro-services in Java
• Experience of developing containerised services using Docker and Kubernetes
• Hands-on Spring Boot skills
• Experience of developing and deploying on Unix or Linux
• Hands-on experience of using the Kafka ecosystem
• Experience of profiling and performance tuning
• Experience of Behaviour-Driven and Test-Driven development principles and skills

Secondary Skills

• Messaging Standards, for example JSON.
• Working in an Agile development team
• Designing and implementing platform independent, database independent event driven applications
• Database design skills in technologies such as Oracle
• Splunk
• DevOps' principles, processes and tooling
• Working in Financial Market Infrastructure and/or Regulated environments
• Affinity with PL1 and IBM Mainframe

Soft Skills

• Have the ability to empower those you mentor, coach & lead!
• Be a stand-out colleague and role model, willing to participate in peer reviews and to be reviewed by peers
• Be reliable, driven and able to work without close management and supervision
• Possess encouraging communication and presentation skills to present proposals both orally and in writing
• Have the demonstrable ability to complete work within agreed timescales and identify problems and provide the most suitable solution(s)