Java Developer

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Java Developer to work for our client within the financial services sector. This is initially a 12-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in Farnborough.

Our client is looking for a candidate who has at least 4 years’ experience in software development or engineering and will be working part of an Agile development team who can write clean code.

You must be proactive, self-motivated and a team player and able to operate under pressure in a changing environment.

Responsibilities

• Analyse, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production
• Tends to associate application engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of senior associate application engineers, and helps them continue to grow
• Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills
• Has an oversight on design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them
• Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures
• Contributes to and leads client’s technology communities

Requirements

• At least 4 years’ experience in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team
• Strong understanding of object-oriented principles with an ability to write clean code
• Strong experience working with a relational database and NoSQL and relational database
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub; Artifactory
• Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring
• Experience developing and implementing API service architecture
• Experience in working in a cloud environment such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Understanding of messaging systems like MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or Kinesis.
• Build secure web applications with user authentication
• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies
• Exposure to Openshift

Technical Requirements

• Java
• Spring Framework
• Git/GitHub, Nexus
• Junit, PACT, Mockito, Assertj, Wiremock, Cucumber
• Jenkins, Gradle, Ansible and Groovy
• OCP, Linux, VMware, AWS
• Amazon CloudWatch
• JFrog Artifactory
• Restful API’s and microservice architecture
• PostgreSQL
• Apache Storm, Kafka, HBase (Highly Available variant)
• UNIX/Linux (command line and shell scripting)
• IntelliJ, Eclipse or Spring Tool Suite (STS)
• JSON processing and validation

Why join us?

• Career coaching and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Initial upskilling pre-assignment that has been accredited by TechSkills
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to obtain certifications from Microsoft, Salesforce, Cisco and more
• Access to the Buy As You Earn share scheme

About FDM

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 4,000 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.