About the project

• Are you passionate about building resilient, high-performance middleware systems? Join us as a Middleware Engineer and take the lead in shaping the future of our Kafka and Fax platforms across diverse environments—from on-prem Linux to OpenShift and Azure.

Your responsibilities

• Contributing to the creation of a new team of IT professionals and providing technical leadership
• Leading delivery of a coherent end-to-end IT solution that meets both functional and non-functional requirements
• Working as part of an Agile development team to deliver the migration of the legacy application to a new event-based and service-oriented architecture solution, working in collaboration with the Solution Architect, Engineering Lead and other stakeholders
• 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 providing technical guidance, coaching and mentoring to your team members
• Potential for line management

Our requirements

• Crucial Candidate Traits:
• The successful candidate will have previously performed a technical lead role and have strong demonstrable solutions design and development skills.
• Technical Skills:
• The successful candidate will have strong hands-on experience of:
• • Core Java development (at least 7 years of industry experience) and common frameworks such as Spring Boot
• • Developing services/micro-services in Java
• • Event driven architecture and messaging technologies (Kafka, MQ…)
• • Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes …)
• • Object-Oriented design
• • Developing and deploying on Unix or Linux
• • Profiling and performance tuning
• • Testing tools and frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber, etc.)
• • Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
• • Database technologies (SQL, NoSQL, etc.)
• Soft Skills:
• • Strong technical leadership and organisational skills.
• • Strong interpersonal effectiveness and communication skills.
• • Effective and creative problem-solving skills with the ability to resolve issues or identify the correct internal resources to assist.
• • Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
• • A willingness to learn and share knowledge.
• • A results-oriented and can-do attitude and able to work against tight deadlines.
• • A passion for innovation and technology.

Optional

• The following are not essential but would be a plus if the candidate can demonstrate any experience of:
• Database design skills in technologies such as Oracle
• Hibernate
• Splunk
• DevOps principles, processes and tooling
• IBM MQ
• Angular
• Messaging Standards, for example ISO 15022, ISO 20022 and JSON
• Working in Financial Services or other regulated environment
• Line management

Technologies we use

What we offer

• Work closely with inspiring, supportive and engaged colleagues from more than 80 different countries.

• Practice your talents in a highly professional international environment.

• Join a learning and development environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing and training.

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.