Java Engineer Managing Devops AWSStrong Banking exp Location: Whippany, NJ (Hybrid) Type: Contract Duration: 12+ months US Citizens, GC, visa holders preferred, NO third party corp to corp accepted for this jobResponsibilities: Drive the FX migration effort for Cash Settlements Technology. This is a hands-on engineering role requiring detailed involvement in day to day development functions, disciplined strategic delivery expertise, and experience working in a distributed service environment. Key accountabilitiesDrive the migration of FX products from existing Cash systems (80+ components) to a single set of services (Taurus) processing over 1 trillion notional daily. Responsible for all aspects of front-to-back technology delivery - arch, infra, API, SDLC, CI/CD, devops efficiency.Work closely with stakeholders, development teams, and horizontal services to identify requirements and dependencies and design a single front-to-back target architecture.Own front-to-back non-functional delivery, including resiliency, data integrity, and performance. Ability to analyse and to test hypotheses objectively and completely.Create and execute on an incremental migration strategy leveraging Agile principles.
Experience using scorecards to track progress of migrations to the strategic platform.Act as a central leadership point to project manager, business analyst, engineering teams, and testers. (Role is for an individual contributor.)Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:Strong understanding of modern engineering principles, including: core Java expertise, container-based development, architecture modularization, in-memory event and stream-processing, Cloud (AWS) based service management, defining APIs, messaging protocols, integration with ADS (authorized data sources), resiliency, performance management, and dev ops best practices.Engineering expertise in Java development and dev ops practices (CI/CD pipeline, test automation)Strong background with modern tech design, including cloud-based platforms, in-memory data stores, APIs, networking, and messaging best practices.Proven success in buildout of a distributed platform and ongoing support in productionAbility to effectively communicate technical strategy to senior stakeholders, peers and global development teams on build progress, delivery approach, and tradeoffs between time to market and functionality.Demonstrated ability to collaborate with diverse individuals and global teams.Understanding of trading flows at investment banksEngineering degree from top programDesirable Skills/Preferred Qualifications:Experience with SettlementsExperience in a leadership role in large multiyear initiatives Java CICD