Salt
Senior Java Engineer (AI-Augmented Delivery)
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Senior Java Engineer (Kafka, SpringBoot) – Banking – London/Hybrid
Daily Rate:
€600 - €700 (inside IR35)
Duration:
12 months
Start:
ASAP
About the Role
My client is looking for a Senior Java Engineer to join on a contract basis. They need someone with strong core Java expertise as the role primarily involves server-side deployment. 8 days on site per month. 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.
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
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
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
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
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
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location