Associate, Systems Engineer, LMEC

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Responsibilities:

• Design develop and maintain Java-based microservices to support the replacement of the legacy clearing platform.
• Build and enhance interfaces and APIs that enable secure reliable and high-volume integration between clearing settlement and downstream systems.
• Develop event-driven solutions using Apache Kafka including producers consumers and streaming integrations to support near real-time processing.
• Deploy manage and troubleshoot containerised applications on the OpenShift Container Platform.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects and Technical Leads to implement target-state architectures aligned with enterprise standards and cloud-native design principles.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle including requirements analysis solution design development testing deployment and production support.
• Create and maintain RESTful APIs and service contracts ensuring scalability security and backward compatibility.
• Write clean maintainable and testable code while adhering to coding standards design patterns and secure development practices.
• Develop automated unit integration and end-to-end tests to ensure solution quality and minimise production defects.
• Support CI/CD pipelines by integrating build test deployment and quality assurance processes within the software delivery lifecycle.
• Monitor application performance investigate production issues and implement improvements to optimise system resilience throughput and latency.
• Work closely with Business Analysts Product Owners QA Engineers and infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Conduct peer code reviews provide technical guidance to junior developers and promote software engineering best practices across the team.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation covering solution designs APIs integration patterns operational procedures and deployment processes.
• Contribute to platform modernisation initiatives by identifying opportunities to improve architecture automation observability security and operational efficiency across the clearing technology landscape.

PERSON SPECIFICATION:

Academic and Professional Qualifications Required:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Technology or a related discipline; Masters degree preferred.
• Extensive experience in Java application development with a strong track record of delivering enterprise-scale mission-critical systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka including event-driven architecture messaging patterns and stream processing.
• Experience working within Agile delivery frameworks including Scrum or Kanban.
• Understanding of financial markets clearing settlement post-trade processing or capital markets systems would be highly advantageous.
• Excellent stakeholder management communication problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across business and technology teams.

Desirable Certifications

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration or related OpenShift certification.
• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) Java Developer.
• Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka.
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).

Required Knowledge and Level of Experience:

• Minimum 10 years experience in software engineering with demonstrable lead involvement in at least one production-grade platform within financial services or a similarly regulated industry.
• Proven experience designing and developing microservices-based architectures using Java and Spring Boot.
• Demonstrable experience developing and deploying containerised applications using OpenShift Kubernetes or similar container orchestration platforms.
• Experience building and supporting RESTful APIs and integration services within complex enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architecture principles distributed systems scalability resilience and fault-tolerant design.
• Expertise in software engineering best practices including object-oriented design design patterns secure coding and test-driven development.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Bamboo ArgoCD or equivalent.
• Strong proficiency with source control and collaborative development practices using Git/BitBucket.
• Experience with DevOps practices including containerisation (Docker Kubernetes) CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases including performance tuning and data integration.
• Knowledge of observability frameworks including logging monitoring tracing and performance management tools.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Technical Skills

• Apache Kafka (KRaft Architecture)
• SpringBoot
• Java 21
• Kafka Streams
• Confluent Platform (desirable)
• Helm Charts
• Kubernetes / OpenShift
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Schema Registry
• Kafka Connect
• CI/CD Automation for Kafka Deployments
• Monitoring tools such as Prometheus Grafana
• BitBucket Bamboo JIRA Confluence

Company Introduction:

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