Java Developer/Analyst

• Work as a member of distributed agile team taking care of development and support for existing IT system.
• Participate in new features development for the existing system - do coding, unit testing, develop test scenarios and support further release phases.
• Participate in integration and production environment support - analyze reported problems, communicate by mail, instant messenger and phone with other team members and testers in different locations and time zones (US, UK and India).
• Actively communicates with the project stakeholders to understand, clarify business requirements and transform them to technical specifications.
• Participates in development of the test acceptance criteria and test cases.
• Consults developers on requirements.
• Actively participates in distributed Agile process.

Skills Required:

• Java programming experience
• Knowledge of Spring
• Knowledge of JMS
• Experience in identifying and documenting client needs, internal structures, procedures, workflows and systems and defining and executing test strategy.
• Knowledge of Object Oriented Design principles
• Basic, practical knowledge of SQL
• Web technologies (JavaScript)
• Experience in test script automation
• Unit testing
• Linux, shell scripting
• Analytic and detail-oriented
• Very good spoken and written English

Additional Skills/Knowledge (optional):

• Knowledge of capital markets, finance and investment banking
• Experience in Spring Integration or/and knowledge of Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Groovy
• Experience in JUnit/ Unit Testing and Design Patterns
• Knowledge of Use-case driven requirements development
• Working knowledge of SharePoint, Jira and other web-based documentation/knowledge management platforms a plus
• Experience in working with remote client and vendor resource

Our customer is a Europe-based investment bank. There is a set of intermediate systems for the efficient gathering data (orders, executions, cleared trades, allocation instructions and bookings) from different markets and linking them together to form a complete picture of trading activity.