Senior Java Developer

Senior Java Developer

Location: Boston or Jersey City (Hybrid 3 days/week)

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This role is a senior hands on engineering position focused on designing building and operating highly resilient cloud native enterprise Java applications at scale. The engineer acts as a technical authority for one or more critical DTCC systems partnering closely with business analysts infrastructure and DevOps to deliver secure high performance event driven solutions.

Success in this role requires deep expertise in Spring based microservices Kafka centric architectures cloud/container platforms (Kubernetes/OpenShift) CI/CD automation and operational excellence-including risk controls and production support. The role emphasizes engineering craftsmanship system resiliency and continuous delivery in a fast paced regulated environment.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Act as a technical expert on one or more applications utilized by DTCC
• Work with the Business System Analyst to ensure designs satisfy functional requirements
• Partner with Infrastructure to identify and deploy optimal hosting environments
• Tune application performance to eliminate and reduce issues
• Research and evaluate technical solutions consistent with DTCC technology standards
• Align risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalate appropriately
• Apply different software development methodologies dependent on project needs
• Contribute expertise to the design of components or individual programs and participate in the construction and functional testing as well as troubleshooting and production support
• Create applications and construct unit test cases that ensure compliance with functional and non-functional requirements
• Work with peers to mature ways of working continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelors degree preferred or equivalent experience

Skills Required:

• Proven track record designing developing and delivering enterprise grade applications using Enterprise Java.
• Strong understanding of application security transactional processing scalability and high resiliency system design.
• Expertise with Spring ecosystem: Spring Boot Spring Data JPA Spring Kafka and Maven multi module projects.
• Hands on experience with event driven architectures including Apache Kafka and high throughput message processing.
• Strong knowledge of Redis for caching and data access patterns.
• Experience implementing effective caching strategies using Redis and Spring Cache.
• Deep experience with Aurora PostgreSQL including performance tuning and schema design.
• Hands on expertise with Liquibase for database versioning and migrations.
• Knowledge of database partitioning and data scalability strategies.
• Strong understanding of cloud architectures and methodologies (IaaS PaaS).
• Hands on experience with containerization and orchestration including Docker Kubernetes OpenShift and Helm charts.
• Experience designing and supporting multi region highly available deployments.
• Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines DevOps practices automation and cloud management tools.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments using tools such as Jira.
• Strong analytical problem solving and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and apply them effectively.
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced dynamic and highly regulated environment.
• Financial Services experience is a MUST have.