Summary The Specialist, Application Developer supports with business analysts, team leads and development team. A contributor in developing scalable and resilient hybrid and Cloud-based data solutions supporting critical financial market clearing and risk activities; collaborate with other developers, architects and product owners to support enterprise transformation into a data-driven organization. The Specialist, Application Developer will be a team player and work well with business, technical and non-technical professionals in a project environment.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsibility is application development of big data application for business requirements in agreed architecture framework and Agile environment.

• Thoroughly analyzes requirements, develops, tests, and documents software quality to ensure proper implementation.

• Follows agreed upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meet: both explicit and implicit quality standards, end-user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, security rules are upheld, and external facing reporting is properly represented.

• Performs application and project risk analysis and recommends quality improvements.

• Assists Production Support by providing advice on system functionality and fixes as required

• Communicates in a clear and concise manner all time delays or defects in the software immediately to appropriate team members and management.

• Experience with resolving security vulnerabilities

Supervisory Responsibilities:

N/A

Qualifications:

Must have:

• Java 8+ experience required, including deep understanding of Java fundamentals as Memory Model, Runtime Environment, Concurrency and Multithreading.

• Experience in computer algorithms and data structures, including ability to articulate and apply in practice different type of sorting, hashing, partitioning, and search operations.

• Ability to identify both time and memory complexity for the written code.

• Understand and apply in practice Object Oriented and Domain Oriented Design Patterns.

• Experience following Git workflows

• Experience writing unit and integration tests with testing frameworks like Junit, TestNG, Citrus etc.

• ‘Get stuff done’ and flexible mindset for greater good of the organization.

• Intellectually curious and eager to learn.

Nice to have:

• Experience with high speed distributed computing frameworks AWS EMR, Hadoop, HDFS, S3, MapReduce, Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Kafka Streams, Apache Flink etc. (a plus)

• Experience with distributed message brokers Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc.

• Experience with cloud technologies and migrations. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc.

• Experience developing and delivering technical solutions using public cloud service providers like Amazon, Google, etc.

• Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph.

• Working knowledge of DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.

• Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics

Education and/or Experience:

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field or equivalent experience

Certificates or Licenses:

• Willingness to pursue certification of AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate