Senior Java Developer - Corporate & Investment Banking (Technology)

Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

To deliver specialist technical expertise, leadership across the full solution lifecycle to direct the scope, design, quality and refactoring of complex software applications, systems and integration services, against required standards and timelines. To guide teams in the assessment and selection of suitable technologies/approaches, and lead the quality of end-to-end solutions, Engineering artifacts to deliver Engineering excellence and mentor other engineers.

• To form part of an excellent software engineering team in the Global Markets Technology area within Standard Bank.
• Must have a passion for building quality software.
• Should be familiar with modern software engineering practices and technologies.
• Designing, developing, implementing, integrating and maintaining the digital Forex real time auto-trading, routing and risk management services; as well as our low-latency price calculation services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree - BEng or BSc Computer Science (or similar) or BCom Informatics (Min)
• Post Graduate degree - (Pref)
• Additional relevant IT Development certification would be advantageous

Additional Information

Experience Required.

• At least 10 years relevant experience (in key result areas)

Advantageous

• Real time systems knowledge
• Real time trading system knowledge
• Banking, capital markets (foreign exchange, money markets, fixed income, derivative products) business knowledge

Technology Experience Required:

• Java SE 7 - 18
• Design Patterns, Architectural Patterns
• TDD / BDD principles
• JUnit and mocking frameworks
• Database design, SQL development, JDBC and JPA
• UNIX / Linux, BASH shell scripting
• Version control systems (Git and other)
• Build automation (Maven and Gradle)
• Continuous Integration
• Integration skills: Messaging, queuing
• Internet protocols, IP networking, firewalls, proxy servers, the Web
• Clean code and code quality tools such as SonarQube

Technology Experience Advantageous:

• Strong Java and JEE experience
• SOAP and RESTful Web services
• Unix operating systems
• Microservices
• Experience with Java service frameworks – Spring Boot, Quarkus.
• Containerization – OpenShift, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Docker
• Deployment automation tools – Chef, Puppet, Ansible
• Cloud (AWS) expertise

Behavioural Competencies:

• Articulating Information
• Challenging Ideas
• Developing Expertise
• Developing Strategies
• Embracing Change

Technical Competencies:

• Agile Engineering
• API Engineering
• Automation
• Cloud Computing
• Continuous Delivery (CD)