Senior Java Software Engineer

Senior Java Software Engineer (Kafka, Cloud) – Finance – Belgium

Day rate: €500 - €700

Duration: 12 months

Hybrid: 8 days per month in Belgium

Start: ASAP

A banking client of mine is looking for a Senior Java Engineer with Kafka and Docker skills to join the team on a freelance basis. We are specifically looking for an individual with strong Core Java expertise, as this role primarily involves server-side development. Must be based in Belgium and happy to be on site 8 days per month which is mandatory.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Working as part of an Agile development team to deliver new event-based and service-oriented architecture solution, working in collaboration with the Solution Architect, Technical Lead, application architects and other collaborators.
• Lead delivery of a coherent end-to-end IT solution that meets both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Ensuring that the IT solution aligns with the Enterprise engineering and architecture standards.
• Ensuring end-to-end consistency of solution delivery across platforms and teams by, for instance, coordinating walkthroughs of the solution with delivery teams.
• Ensuring that the solution meets guidelines and standards for design and development.
• Undertaking hands-on development and mentor staff in the new technologies used.
• Mentoring of more junior developers.

Technical Skills:

• Strong systems development experience at all stages of systems development covering design, development, testing, live 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

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)

Desirable Skills:

• The following are not essential but would be a plus if the candidate can demonstrate any experience of:
• 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