Lead Java

·         Degree in Computer Science/Engineer.
·         3+ years of Java backed application development and implementation experience.
·         Minimum of one year of experience in Cloud, AWS Engineering & Development .
·         Demonstrated knowledge of Distributed and Scalable systems.
·         Experience on AWS Services is a big plus, such as EC2, ECS, ECR, Lambda, Elastic Cache, API Gateway.
·         Knowledge about API design standards, patterns and best-practices especially Swagger and OpenAPI 3.0, REST, SOAP, MQ, JSON, Microservices etc.
·         Java Microservices, RESTful Web Services.
·         Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Hibernate.
·         JMS, queues, JBoss/Wildfly.
·         Tools - JUnit, Easymock, Mockito, Docker, Kubernetes, Teraform.

Required Experience and Skills :
 A minimum of 6 years of software development experience
 In-depth knowledge of C#
 Hands-on experience with ASP. NET MVC Framework
 Strong knowledge and experience in designing and developing Web solutions using ASP.
NET MVC Framework
 Rich experience in creating REST-based web-services using ASP. NET Web API or ASP.
NET Core
 Working experience of Relational Databases (MS SQL, Oracle nice to have), ORM (Entity
Framework, EF Core)
 Affinity with unit and integration testing frameworks and TDD
 Knowledge of Azure cloud and DevOps pipeline nice to have
 Analyze, plan and estimate requirements as well as identify risks involved and provide
solutions
 Understanding of design principles behind scalable and testable applications
 Continuous improvement and innovative mind-set.
 Ability to take a lead role and take ownership of complex data integration deliveries.
 A degree in Computer Science and/or a business related degree; or equivalent work experience.

Functional Title and/or Role Description: Reference Data Analyst / Developer 
Department: Information Systems   
Reports to: Tech Lead - Regulatory Reporting IT, Product Control  IT & Reference Data IT Internal Development & Support 


About the Department: Information Systems  

The Information Systems Department (‘ISD’) provides a full range of state of the art technology services to all departments within Mizuho International plc in London.  This includes teams servicing the client-facing business units, Operations, Finance and Risk departments.   
The department utilises modern delivery methodologies & techniques including Agile, Containerisation & Continuous integration.  
Each team has resources to provide project management, analysis, software development, package implementation, systems integration services and application support and is expected to contribute to the change. 


Primary Responsibilities  

Summary 

Within Regulatory Reporting, Reference Data & Product Control IT team, the developer will work towards enhancing and supporting our newly delivered financial data reference data platform, GoldenSource. This requires involvement in development and post production support project life cycle. This role will expose the individual to all business areas, including front office, settlements, custody and accounting.  
This role will also involve providing 3rd Line support for any implemented solutions including incident, problem, and defect management 

Specific Responsibilities 

Design and development of the instrument reference data module 
Conduct systems testing and support user acceptance testing 
Dealing with day-to-day production problems and maintenance.  This may require working shifts and/or being on-call out of normal working hours. 
Adhering to Mizuho International development standards and procedures, including change control 

Person Specification  

Essential 

Knowledge of the GoldenSource product 
Experience in implementing and supporting the GoldenSource product in a financial institution 
Minimum five years’ experience in Java and J2EE 
Experience in using object oriented methodologies 


Desirable 

A broad understanding of Fixed Income,  Equity and/or Futures processing through investment banking experience 
Experience in using TDD/BDD agile methodology 

Technical Knowledge/Skills 

Essential

Experience with Publish/Subscribe messaging paradigms, distributed transaction processing based on JTA/JTS 
Experience with installing, configuring and monitoring JBoss 
GoldenSource Security master module 
GoldenSource Customer & Counterparty module  
UNIX skills in particular Linux 
Excellent relational database skills, preferably ORACLE 
Experience of using automated testing tools such as JUnit and mocking libraries such as jMock 
Experience of working with XML based technologies such as XSLT 

Desirable

Experience of Subversion, Ant, Maven and CI frameworks such as Bamboo. 
Building connectors using the GoldenSource product tools 
Experience of  software configuration management 
Experience with integration/acceptance testing frameworks such as FitNesse 
WebServices 
Document database experience, preferably MongoDB 
Experience of Javascript on the client and Node.js 

Qualifications 

Degree or equivalent.  
Active participant in relevant forums/external working groups. 

Key Behaviors/Competencies

Operational Effectiveness and Innovation: Achieving Quality Results: 

Delivering Tasks – Silver 
Problem Solving – Silver 
Flexibility & Drive to Improve – Silver 
Risk Awareness – Silver 

Enhance product Scope: 

Strategic Business Management – Silver 
Business Awareness – Silver 

People: 

Leadership – Silver 
Management – Silver 
Communication – Silver 
Ethics and Conduct Level 1 – Silver  
Ethics and Conduct Level 2 – Silver 

Client Centricity – Silver 

Effective Collaboration:  

Team Working in Your team – Silver 
Team Working With Other Teams – Silver

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