API Lead - Umbrella Only

London  ‐ Onsite
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Description

We're heading up a recruitment drive on behalf of a multinational consultancy that require a API Lead to join them on a major banking project.

The range of activities that you will get involved with is extensive and includes:

As an API Lead within the exciting, new Finance Risk & Data Analytics capability, you will be building Microservices to solve some of the organisations toughest problems and delivering significant business value. This is an exciting time to join as you will be helping to shape the Reference Data Mastering and Distribution architecture and technology stack.

What you will be doing
Work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment that provides exposure to all areas of Finance Risk & Data Analytics
Understand business needs, facilitating and developing process workflow, data requirements, and specifications required to support the implementation
Develop technical specifications, high level/detailed design, testing strategies, and implementation plans from business requirements
Manage end-to-end systems development cycle from requirements analysis, coding, testing, UAT and maintenance

What we need
Experience in software development, including a clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design and core programming concepts
Comfortable multi-tasking, managing multiple stakeholders and working as part of agile team
Excellent communication skills including experience speaking to technical and business audiences and working globally
Expertise in Java development & Relational/No-SQL Databases
Can apply an entrepreneurial approach and passion for problem-solving and product development
Strong problem solving and analytical skills
Keen to learn and share new concepts

Qualifications
Strong programming experience in Java 8+, Scala (plus)
Expert in Spring (Boot, Cloud, Security, Azure), TDD (JUnit, Mockito), BDD (Cucumber, JBehave, Concordion, KarateJS)
Knowledge of JSR-339 (JAX-RS), JSR-303 (Bean Validation Framework), Swagger or Open API specification, GraphQL is added plus
Working experience in building REST API, knowledge of the Microservices Architecture and design patterns is a must
Experience in building event driven microservices, reactive architecture is added plus
Technologies: Linux, Shell/PowerShell Scripting, build tools (Maven/Gradle/SBT)
In-depth knowledge of relational and columnar SQL databases, including database design
Experience in distributed systems and Cloud environment for eg Azure (preferred), AWS, GCP
Experience with continuous delivery and deployment pipelines (Teamcity, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm Charts)
Proficient at working with large and complex code bases (Gitlab, Gitflow, Fork/Pull Model)
Working experience in Agile methodologies (SCRUM, XP, Kanban)

Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 months
From
fortice
Published at
19.01.2021
Project ID:
2031950
Contract type
Freelance
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