Senior Software Engineer – Java Full Stack

Division: Group Business Solutions (GBS)

IT is at the core of Euroclears business providing continuous development assisting in delivering a cost efficient and high-quality service to its customers.

Euroclear is building a new EB Settlement capability on a distributed cloud-native architecture independent of any mainframe legacy systems. This initiative is being developed using Java-based microservices deployed on Red Hat OpenShift or Azure Kubernetes. The architecture emphasizes modularity scalability and resilience aligning with Euroclears enterprise-wide adoption of modern design patterns. Engineers joining this effort will also contribute to the foundational layers of a new platform that supports critical settlement workflows leveraging reusable components and integration standards established across GBS tribes.

Responsibilities and Duties

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Collaborating within an Agile development team to migrate the legacy application to a new event-based service-oriented architecture. This involves close coordination with the Solution Architect Technical Lead application architects and other stakeholders.
• Leading the delivery of a coherent end-to-end IT solution that meets both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Ensuring the IT solution adheres to enterprise engineering and architecture standards.
• Promoting consistency in solution delivery across platforms and teams for example by organizing walkthroughs with delivery teams.
• Ensuring the solution complies with established design and development guidelines and standards.
• Participating in hands-on development and mentoring team members in the use of new technologies.

Qualifications

Crucial Candidate Traits:

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.

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 Angular for building responsive and modular web applications
• Knowledge of secure coding practices authentication/authorization (OAuth2 JWT) and data protection techniques.

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:

• Messaging Standards for example ISO 15022 ISO 20022 and JSON.
• Working in an Agile development team
• Designing and implementing platform independent database independent event driven applications
• Database design skills in technologies such as Oracle
• Hibernate
• Splunk
• DevOps principles processes and tooling
• IBM MQ
• Working in Financial Market Infrastructure and/or Regulated environments

Please note that this is a permanent position and we do not offer freelance or contract arrangements for this role.

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