Sr. Streaming Engineer

Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Java

This role supports and works collaboratively with business analysts, team leads, and development teams. 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.

Responsibilities:

• Support the application development of big data applications for business requirements in an agreed architecture framework and Agile environment
• Thoroughly analyze requirements, develop, test, and document software quality to ensure proper implementation
• Follow agreed upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meet explicit and implicit quality standards, end-user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, security rules, and external facing reporting
• Perform application and project risk analysis and recommend quality improvements
• Assist Production Support by providing advice on system functionality and fixes as required
• Communicate in a clear and concise manner all time delays or defects in the software immediately to appropriate team members and management

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Qualifications & Experience:

• (Required) 5+ years of experience in building high speed, data-centric solutions
• (Required) Java 5+ years experience
• (Required) Experience with high speed distributed computing frameworks like FLINK, Apache Spark, Kafka Streams, etc
• (Required) Experience with distributed message brokers Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc
• (Required) 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
• (Required) Experience developing and delivering technical solutions using public cloud service providers like Amazon, Google
• (Required) Experience writing unit and integration tests with testing frameworks like Junit, Citrus
• (Required) Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph
• (Required) Experience following Git workflows
• (Required) Working knowledge of DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc
• (Required) Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics

Technical Skills & Background:

• (Required) Java-based software development experience
• (Required) Fluent in object-oriented design, industry best practices, software patterns, and architecture principles
• (Required) Strong testing experience which includes developing test plans, automated test cases, and working with test frameworks
• (Required) Deep understanding of performance issues and multi-threaded development
• (Required) Experience working with two or more of the following: web/mobile application development, Unix/Linux environments, event-driven systems, transaction processing systems, distributed and parallel systems, large software system development, security software development, public-cloud platforms
• (Required) Hands-on experience with Java version 8 onwards, Spring, SpringBoot, Microservices, REST API

Certifications:

• (Preferred) OCP Java SE 8 Programmer Certification
• (Preferred) AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level

Education & Training:

• (Required) BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field required