Senior Java Developer - W2

eTek IT Services•Tempe, AZ

60d•Onsite

About The Position

The Java Development Lead role will join a growing team of full stack, backend developers and will help lead data integration projects for Northern Trust’s Wealth Management strategic applications. The role will need to guide and coordinate other developers on coding best practices and participate in resource planning for ongoing tasks and projects. The role is a leadership role when working on a team of onshore developers, architects, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders. The role interacts with a wide variety of functional and technical client groups, enterprise architecture, and business systems analysts. Additionally, close coordination with scrum masters and project managers is expected. Projects will include new development, enhancements, and maintenance of systems for acquiring source data and working with multiple stakeholders to integrate data across key application systems within the business unit. Candidates should have experience with several complex data integration patterns that may include webservices, SpringBatch, and Kafka. Data technologies utilized include relational databases (Oracle and DB2) as well as adopting NoSQL. Duties may also include coding of POCs, coding to establish an application framework, or coding to resolve production issues. Some light UX development is occasionally needed. Knowledge of Financial Industry and complex data concepts related to Global Investments, Portfolio Management, Banking, Mutual Funds, and CRM systems is highly beneficial. Candidates should be conversant and comfortable working in multiple development methodologies. Project methodology will vary from Agile Scrum, Agile Kanban, Iterative Waterfall, to Full Waterfall depending on the nature and size of the project. The Wealth Management division's Data Management platform is undertaking strategic initiatives to build new data-centric services and participate in streamlining business process flows. The Wealth Management Data Delivery projects are part of a multi-phase, multi-release program to deploy a new platform which will be used by internal Northern Trust service teams for providing clean, timely data to key business functions such as servicing clients, new sales/marketing initiatives, making data available to online client channels, and trade order entry. The project entails exchanging data with multiple legacy systems which require business definitions, new infrastructure, and new business processes which will replace existing systems and provide an overall view of client by consolidating data from multiple applications.

Requirements

Excellent Java server side design, coding, and code management
Experience with tuning and refactoring code and assessing the impact of architectural decisions on performance and scalability
Experience with Service Oriented Architecture concepts and patterns including: microservices, service bus, service gateway implementations
Experience with Spring modules: MVC, Aspects, Security, Data, Core, Boot
Experience with Javascript and/or Node.js
Ability to navigate and manage JIRA tickets and Agile boards.
Familiarity with data architectures, data governance, data management concepts
Ability to understand logical and physical data model concepts
Ability to write variety of database queries on a variety of database platforms (SQL, SPARQL, XQuery, etc.)
The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills including ability to write pseudocode , ability to Review/Approve business and technical requirements and designs, and responding to project questions and issues.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of Financial Industry and complex data concepts related to Global Investments, Portfolio Management, Banking, Mutual Funds, and CRM systems is highly beneficial.
Candidates should be conversant and comfortable working in multiple development methodologies.

Responsibilities

Plan and Lead development projects including estimating work effort, understanding cross-project dependencies, resource planning, infrastructure planning
Plan and Lead development projects including those with strategic Architecture, design, and complex implementation
Strong communication skills to report status and translate technical concepts/issues to senior management
Monitoring of code quality, project documentation, end-user documentation and education
Coordinate with Testing leads to consult on the creation of Testing Strategies
Coordinate with Release Management to plan and prepare testing environments and data seeding on project-by-project basis
Participate in team reviews of design artifacts and code, make changes as required, and recommend alternative solutions where appropriate
Use multiple software development methodologies and standards as defined by organization to effectively code and deliver systems.
Follow established processes for configuration and release management to ensure that all project artifacts are managed, integrated, and versioned according to standards.
Prepare presentations of design approaches and participate in architecture reviews