Story Behind the Need

• Business group: Client Engineering – Development & Business Analysis – team looks after development and support for branch applications and products
• Project: Replacing financial planning platform, in soft development phase, full development in January-dev working in back end for API development for the new platform-moving to Conquest platform-APIs connect Conquest to the Bank systems

Candidate Value Proposition:

• The successful candidate will have the opportunity gain exposure to Google cloud technologies as well as event-based (real time) technologies.

Typical Day in Role:

• Research analysis and programming, technical documentation
• Tech stack: Java
• 100% back-end role
• Working closely with other developers and solutions architects
• Design, develop, and implement applications using Java, SOAP, Json
• Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications
• Act as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts
• Assure quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported area
• Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 8+ years of experience as a as a Java back-end developer
• 5+ years’ experience in application architecture and API design
• 5+ years’ experience in building Microservices using Spring boot
• 5+ years’ experience with Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Demonstrated experience working with all phases of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).
• Proficient with SQL queries, PL/SQL, and SQL Loader – or equivalent
• Experience with SOAP, and JSON
• Experience in version control and build tools, like Git, Bitbucket, Jenkin, Gradle
• Experience with secure coding

Soft Skills Required:

• Good communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Strong documentation skills

Education:

• Bachelors in a technical field

Best VS. Average Candidate:

• Ideal candidate is able to take a problem, research it and document it and come back with a solution with minimal hand holding, who is independent; strong Java/API developer who has experience with secure coding
• Regarding Kubernetes, a supplier sent in a question asking if the contractor will be managing deployments and how central it will be to the role – manager said: “This will not be the focus of the role. We manage our own deployments however the focus is mainly on the back-end development (analysis, research, design, coding, etc…)”

Candidate Review & Selection

• 1 round – MS Teams Video Interview with HM and Solutions Architect – 1 Hour – technical questions + behavioral questions