Role Profile
We are looking for a Senior Lead Java Developer to join ForexClear IT Development team. This is an excellent opportunity to join one of LSEG’s fastest growing entities and is embarking on a public cloud migration.
The candidate must have a Computer Science orientated degree and Java development skills. Someone who is intellectually curious, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios. If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career.
What you’ll be doing
- They will work on delivery of projects, carry out improvements and provide support on a highly regulated clearing system.
- May be require to provide O/N support on rare occasions.
- Developing on a highly critical platform that is systemic to the financial markets (equivalence of a nuclear plant)
- Individual must be well-adapted in adhering to the company standards in development, testing and change governance.
- They will coordinate with business users and other technology areas
- Chip in towards design solutions that can sustain our high computation and low latency business requirements.
- Work alongside quants, business analysis and product owners to drive the right solution
- Help drive our agile philosophy
- Accountable for project delivery from inception to production, including budget, timelines and technical debt
What you’ll bring
Key Skills
- 12+ years proven experience in hands-on commercial software development
- Agile/Scrum development practices and principles focusing on writing high-performance, clean, quality code
- Accustom to leading technical delivery within 1 or more project teams
- Ability to lead and mentor less experienced members of the project team
- Architecture, design and implementation ownership
- Performance tuning
- Exposure to all aspects of software development and the project life cycle
- Champion automation, maturing CI/CD pipelines, technology adoption and agile practices
Desirable skills
- Java 11+
- Spring Boot
- JMS message API
- Understanding of the SDLC, Object Orientated and Functional programming.
- Linux, shell script and scripting languages such as
- Architectural and Design patterns of distributed systems
- Exposure to TDD/BDD e.g. Cucumber
- Use of Spring Cloud ecosystem
- Hibernate, JPA, Oracle, REST.
- Excellent communication and collaboration using both verbal and written skills.
- Development of maintenance procedures and processes for CI/CD processes to remove key person dependencies
- Ability to collaborate with others to find the best way to resolve a technological, infrastructure, security or development issue.
- Build resilient, robust and secure solutions which are easy and efficient to evolve with new technologies over time
What you’ll get in return:
- Be part of a growing company and share in its success.
- As a small entity within LSEG your work contributions are transparent, impactful and recognised by senior leadership.
- Future career growth opportunity within ForexClear as well as the wider LSEG group.
- Lots of learning with access to significant training and certification.
- Chance to join a high calibre team that loves success and teamwork.
- Opportunity to craft the team.
- An outstanding opportunity and challenge to work on groundbreaking technology and meet resilience standards beyond normal cloud provisioning.
- Flexible hybrid working conditions (Digital First).
- Competitive compensation package.
- Access to regular 1-2-1 mentoring and leadership with option to grow as either a people manager or individual contributor.
- Well defined and clear objectives and quarterly reviews to support career growth.
- Access to seminars and events.
- Potential to travel to London if preferred.
We increase each employee’s potential through personal development and through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe that remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:
25 days’ holiday per year
1 additional day off for your Birthday
Annual wellness allowance
Share Purchase Plan
Medical Health Insurance
Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
Dental Coverage
Life insurance
Pillar 3 Private Pension
Meal Vouchers
Flexible Benefits
Bookster
Volunteering Events
Team Buildings
At LSEG, we believe that creating a diverse and inclusive organisation is fundamental to the way we deliver on our promise of creating essential partnerships and open opportunities. Our open culture is central to how we deliver our purpose – driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth – in everything we do.
Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 70 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.
LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.
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