Senior Java Engineer

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

YOUR CHALLENGE

General description

We are seeking an experienced Java Developer to join our market data team. You will be participating in a major refactoring of the market data distribution platform, implementing new components and extending existing capabilities once the platform is migrated. Your strong background in solution architecture and your extensive implementation experience will allow you to lead to way in evolving our complex platform, ensuring its reliability, flexibility and performance.

Key features and accountabilities

People Management

Contribute to the strengthening of the team spirit and the fostering of a collaborative work environment across locations.

Mentor, motivate and provide guidance/feedback to junior team members.

Business Management

Work to fulfil the ambitions of the team defined by Head of CoE Software Solutions.

Actively participate and support the head of the team to regularly review and improve team practices to optimise efficiency and productivity.

Continuously drive and improve systems.

Stakeholder Management

Effective and progressive management of all stakeholders and users of applications supported by the team.

Solicit and discuss requirements and solutions with business owners and stakeholders.

Provide regular updates to key stakeholders through the various channels used by the team.

Change Management

Actively participate and support Program Increment (PI) planning process.

Support change management and release rollout planning.

Provide dedicated post implementation support locally in Asia.

Regulatory Responsibilities and Risk Management

Demonstration of appropriate values and behaviours including but not limited to standards on honesty and integrity, due care and diligence, fair dealing (treating customers fairly), management of conflicts of interest, competence and continuous development, adequate risk management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Design and Development

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement high-quality software solutions for our financial products and services.

Troubleshooting and Support

Diagnose and resolve technical issues across the stack, providing support for both development and production environments.

Provide periodic on-call duty support.

YOUR PROFILE

Skills requirements

Personal and Social

Able to work independently and in a global team setup to take on initiatives with a positive attitude.

Used to designing and developing collaboratively (e.g. pair- or mob- programming), to giving and receiving feedback

Experience mentoring more junior developers

Good code review skills, pride in code quality

Focused, capable of driving the delivery of technical changes to completion

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with the occasional priority changes and context switches

Structured, able to follow processes systematically

Very good English and communication skills

A team player

Ability to work in an agile environment

Positive thinking personality with a can-do attitude

Self-motivator, able and willing to work with minimal direction

Very good English and communication skills.

Professional and Technical

Relevant higher educational and professional background with a minimum of 5 years of experience developing with Java, with at least 2 years on Java 11 or higher

Knowledge of market data (asset classes, data vendors, entitlement aspects)

Good knowledge of multi-threading and memory management

Experience building high-performance real-time systems, market data streaming ideal

Track record in delivering robust and scalable solutions

Willingness to participate in application support, including periodical on-call duty

Be a driver for standardization and automation within Julius Bär Markets Technology

Foster the engineering culture within your team

Bring proven expertise in engineering practices and processes and have experience operating and supporting critical business systems on a global scale.

Your experience with microservices, cloud-native applications and distributed systems will help us propel our business growth

Additional desirable requirements

Cloud concepts and experience, in particular Azure

Kafka experience

Test driven development, experience of JUnit and mocking libraries (e.g. Mockito)

Previous experience in the finance industry, particularly front-office functions

Familiar with functional programming, ideally in Java

Experience in solution architecture, able to specify and factor non-functional requirements into design and implementation

Familiarity with concepts and implementations related to security

Familiarity with lifecycle activities, capacity management, observability

General DevOps culture: scripting, pipelines, deployments, certificates, et...

Experience with Agile/SAFe methodology, prior use of Jira and Confluence

Knowledge of Jenkins, Grafana, Octopus, Kubernetes

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