Lead Java Developer (Server-side, Microservices) Bank - London

Lead Java Developer (Kafka, Microservices, Spring boot) - Bank - London/Hybrid

Daily rate: €600 - €800 (inside IR35)

Duration: 12 months

Start: ASAP

Hybrid: 8 days per month

My banking client is looking for contractors with strong Core Java expertise, as this role primarily involve server-side development. You will be required to be onsite 8 days per month in London office.

Responsibilities & Duties

Working as part of an Agile development team to deliver the migration of the legacy application to new event-based and service-oriented architecture solution, working in collaboration with the Solution Architect, Technical Lead, Application architects and other stakeholders.
Lead delivery of a coherent end-to-end IT solution that meets both functional and non-functional requirements.
Ensuring that the IT solution complies with the Enterprise engineering and architecture standards.
Ensuring end-to-end consistency of solution delivery across platforms and teams by, for instance, organising walkthroughs of the solution with delivery teams.
Ensuring that the solution meets guidelines and standards for design and development.
Undertaking hands-on development and coaching staff in the new technologies used; The successful candidate will be expected to support the development of more junior colleagues
Candidate Traits:

The successful candidate will have demonstrable 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 SpringBoot 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
Experience of Public Cloud development
Soft Skills:

Have the ability to motivate 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, self-motivated and able to work without close management and supervision
Possess inspiring 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:

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
IBM MQ
Messaging Standards, for example ISO 15022, ISO 20022 and JSON
Working in Financial Market Infrastructure and/or Regulated environments

*Rates depend on experience and client requirements
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed