Senior Java Engineer

Java Developer

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Your Challenge

We are seeking an experienced Java Developer to join our market data team. You will be participating in a major refactoring of the market data distribution platform, implementing new components and extending existing capabilities once the platform is migrated. Your strong background in solution architecture and your extensive implementation experience will allow you to lead the way in evolving our complex platform, ensuring its reliability, flexibility and performance.

Key Features and Accountabilities

People Management

• Contribute to the strengthening of the team spirit and the fostering of a collaborative work environment across locations.
• Mentor, motivate and provide guidance/feedback to junior team members.

Business Management

• Work to fulfil the ambitions of the team defined by Head of CoE Software Solutions.
• Actively participate and support the head of the team to regularly review and improve team practices to optimise efficiency and productivity.
• Continuously drive and improve systems.

Stakeholder Management

• Effective and progressive management of all stakeholders and users of applications supported by the team.
• Solicit and discuss requirements and solutions with business owners and stakeholders.
• Provide regular updates to key stakeholders through the various channels used by the team.

Change Management

• Actively participate and support Program Increment (PI) planning process.
• Support change management and release rollout planning.
• Provide dedicated post implementation support locally in Asia.

Regulatory Responsibilities and Risk Management

• Demonstration of appropriate values and behaviours including but not limited to standards on honesty and integrity, due care and diligence, fair dealing (treating customers fairly), management of conflicts of interest, competence and continuous development, adequate risk management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Design and Development

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement high-quality software solutions for our financial products and services.

Troubleshooting and Support

• Diagnose and resolve technical issues across the stack, providing support for both development and production environments.
• Provide periodic on-call duty support.

Your Profile

Skills Requirements

Personal and Social

• Able to work independently and in a global team setup to take on initiatives with a positive attitude.
• Used to designing and developing collaboratively (e.g. pair- or mob-programming), to giving and receiving feedback.
• Experience mentoring more junior developers.
• Good code review skills, pride in code quality.
• Focused, capable of driving the delivery of technical changes to completion.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with the occasional priority changes and context switches.
• Structured, able to follow processes systematically.
• Very good English and communication skills.
• A team player.
• Ability to work in an agile environment.
• Positive thinking personality with a can-do attitude.
• Self-motivator, able and willing to work with minimal direction.
• Very good English and communication skills.

Professional and Technical

• Relevant higher educational and professional background with a minimum of 5 years of experience developing with Java, with at least 2 years on Java 11 or higher.
• Knowledge of market data (asset classes, data vendors, entitlement aspects).
• Good knowledge of multi-threading and memory management.
• Experience building high-performance real-time systems, market data streaming ideal.
• Track record in delivering robust and scalable solutions.
• Willingness to participate in application support, including periodical on-call duty.
• Be a driver for standardization and automation within Julius Bär Markets Technology.
• Foster the engineering culture within your team.
• Bring proven expertise in engineering practices and processes and have experience operating and supporting critical business systems on a global scale.
• Your experience with microservices, cloud-native applications and distributed systems will help us propel our business growth.

Additional Desirable Requirements

• Cloud concepts and experience, in particular Azure.
• Kafka experience.
• Test driven development, experience of JUnit and mocking libraries (e.g. Mockito).
• Previous experience in the finance industry, particularly front-office functions.
• Familiar with functional programming, ideally in Java.
• Experience in solution architecture, able to specify and factor non-functional requirements into design and implementation.
• Familiarity with concepts and implementations related to security.
• Familiarity with lifecycle activities, capacity management, observability.
• General DevOps culture: scripting, pipelines, deployments, certificates, et...
• Experience with Agile/SAFe methodology, prior use of Jira and Confluence.
• Knowledge of Jenkins, Grafana, Octopus, Kubernetes.

We are looking forward to receiving your full job application through our online application tool. Further interesting job opportunities can be found on our Career site.