Java Developer (Durham, NC)

Job Description:

• This role requires the person to be practicing the Agile methodology as an engineering squad member.
• Squad member assignments will be Agile based tasks and/or stories to deliver what is required as part of the product team backlog refinement.
• This squad member will be responsible to create, design, develop and maintain the technical solutions.
• This is a hands-on technology professional role where you will closely collaborate with the Squad Lead and other members of the squad to deliver quality solutions to support the business needs.
• Designing, Building, and supporting important applications and APIs to deliver the best customer experience.
• Deliver messaging solutions and Services functionality for Institutional, Retail.
• Driving Innovation and owning the team to implement solutions with future thinking.
• Collaborating with internal and external teams to deliver technology solutions for the business needs.
• Guiding teams to improve development agility and productivity.
• Resolving technical roadblocks to the team and mitigating potential risks
• Delivering system automation by setting up continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines
• Acting as a technical mentor to the team and bringing them up to speed on the latest data technologies and promoting continuous learning.
• Responsible for managing the Code reviews and Code merges for the Scrum team.

Skills:

• BS Computer Science or equivalent is required; MS Computer Science or equivalent is preferred.
• 8+ years of software development experience
• The Expertise and Skills You Bring
• Programming skills (Java, J2EE, Spring Framework, Multi-threading, Object Oriented Design)
• Messaging technologies, such as, Kafka, MQ, TIBCO EMS
• Secure REST APIs
• AWS Services – EC2, Lambda, S3, Kinesis, SNS, SQS, ECS, Cloud Formation, Cloud Security
• Knowledge of developing highly scalable distributed systems using AWS services
• Experience with DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (Maven, Jenkins, Stash, Ansible, Docker)
• Solid experience in Agile methodologies (Kanban and SCRUM)
• Solid understating of data architecture patterns such as Lambda, Event driven Architecture, Data as a Service, Microservice etc.
• Relational (Oracle, DB2) and NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Elastic search, Graph DB)
• Strong knowledge and technology trends in implementing of Big data ecosystem.
• Good experience in problem solving analysis, owning the problem, designing the solution, and leading the change.
• Financial brokerage Knowledge skills a plus

Department: Preferred Vendors
This is a contract position