Division: Group Business Solutions (GBS) 

Group Business Solutions (GBS) ensures Euroclear’s leading position by delivering safe, reliable and sustainable IT solutions for the financial securities markets.   

Your Team - GBS Collateral Management Tribe:  

Within GBS, you will join the Collateral Management Tribe. You will integrate a dynamic team working in a fast-changing environment enabling performant Collateral Management to financial institutions.  

Senior Java Software Engineer 

Euroclear is investing to modernise its applications for running in a cloud-ready OpenShift-managed Kubernetes container platform.  

Our technology is both Mainframe and Java based and uses Event Hub technology (such as Kafka) for integration between the new services and backend systems : We already have a considerable, high quality stack from which we can leverage and grow. 

We are seeking an experienced Java Software Engineer to accelerate our Transformation journey. 

Responsibilities & Duties 

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

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. 

Qualifications 

Crucial Candidate Traits: 

The successful candidate will have proven solutions design and development skills and experience alongside validated strong systems development experience at all stages of the software delivery lifecycle. 

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 


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