Senior Java Engineer – Azure – Finance Domain – London

Senior Java Engineer (Azure) – Finance – London Daily rate: €500 – €700 (inside IR35) Duration: 12 months Hybrid: 8 days per month Start: ASAP

A banking client of mine is looking for a Senior Java Engineer with Azure and Kafka experience 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 the UK and happy to be on site 8 days per month which is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Working as part of an Agile development team to deliver the migration of the legacy application to a new event-based and service-oriented architecture solution, working in collaboration with the Solution Architect, Technical Lead, Application architects and other stakeholders.
• Lead delivery of a coherent end-to-end IT solution that meets both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Ensuring that the IT solution complies with the Enterprise engineering and architecture standards.
• Ensuring end-to-end consistency of solution delivery across platforms and teams by organising walkthroughs of the solution with delivery teams.
• Ensuring that the solution meets guidelines and standards for design and development.
• Undertaking hands‑on development and coaching staff in the new technologies used; the successful candidate will be expected to support the development of more junior colleagues.

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 SpringBoot 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.
• Experience of Public Cloud development.

Desirable Skills

• Working in an Agile development team.
• Designing and implementing platform independent, database independent event‑driven applications.
• Database design skills in technologies such as Oracle and Splunk.
• DevOps principles, processes and tooling.
• IBM MQ Messaging Standards, for example ISO15022, ISO20022 and JSON.
• Working in Financial Market Infrastructure and/or Regulated environments.

Rates depend on experience and client requirements.

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