Robert Walters
Senior Java Developer
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Senior Java Developer
Location: London
Contract: 12 months
Work Setup: Hybrid - 3 days in the office
Who We Are
Robert Walters is the world's most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, outsourcing, and talent advisory services for businesses of all sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds.
Who You Will Work With
Our client is a global financial services firm that manages wealth, navigates complex markets, and design strategic financial objectives. The firm provides risk management solutions across a variety of sectors, emphasizing long-term relationships, and innovative approaches to financial challenges.
What You'll Do
- Collaborate within a large global team to enhance and maintain large-scale, distributed enrichment and allocation systems.
- Modernise applications using technologies such as Java 21, Spring Boot 3.3+, Gradle, MongoDB and Kafka to improve reliability, scalability and observability.
- Design, develop and test strategic functional and non-functional enhancements in line with evolving business and regulatory requirements.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues involving inter-process communication, threading, memory management, messaging, databases, caching and data enrichment logic.
- Identify opportunities to align processes and consolidate related systems, reducing duplication and simplifying future maintenance.
- Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback and develop secure, high-quality software that follows engineering best practices and design patterns.
- Support departmental transformation and operational objectives while ensuring strong application performance, availability and scalability.
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What You Bring
- Strong proficiency in Java, including Spring and Gradle, with experience developing and maintaining large-scale applications.
- Solid database expertise across DB2, Sybase and Mongo, together with strong SQL skills.
- Hands-on experience with messaging technologies, particularly Kafka and IBM MQ.
- Proficiency in Linux or Unix environments, shell scripting and, ideally, Python.
- Exposure to DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, containerisation and Kubernetes.
- Previous experience modernising, re-engineering or migrating complex, large-scale systems.
- Excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and collaborate effectively across global teams.
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What's Next
If you are ready to take the next step, apply now! Successful applicants will be contacted directly by a recruiter to discuss the role more.
We are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment experience. If you require support or adjustments to the recruitment process, our Adjustment Concierge Service is here to help. Please feel free to contact us at adjustments@robertwalters.com to discuss how we can support you.
This position is being recruited on behalf of our client through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, acts as an employment business and agency, partnering with top organizations to help them find the best talent. We welcome applications from all candidates and are committed to providing equal opportunities.
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