6 month contract - Inside IR35 (Umbrella) - Investment Banking
Location: London or Glasgow
50% office presence required


The Candidate:


· Will be responsible for the full development lifecycle of a project from design, to deployment
in production and post release supportability.
· Will ensure end-deliverables are clearly defined and communicated; ensure that stakeholders
are kept informed of each deliverable’s progress, issues and risks.
· Will pro-actively manage risk & issues - escalating where appropriate - ensuring delivery
progress is maintained.
· Will work in projects with an agile methodology delivering incremental deliverables that improve
the business functionality whilst limiting risk to Production systems
· Will work closely with the business, operations and development teams to design, deliver
and implement future state architecture.
· Will partner with the architecture teams to ensure robust design and adherence to bank
wide architectural goals.
· Will design solutions that align technology roadmaps to business strategy and conduct high-
quality functional design, system, integration testing and UAT.
· Will work closely with Production Management APS to deliver a stable & reliable platform under
all necessary controls


Knowledge, Skill and Experience
· 8+ years’ experience in commercial software development.
· Strong core Java and backend engineering skills, with experience designing, building and
maintaining reliable, scalable applications.
· Good SQL skills and experience working with relational databases.
· Experience with test-driven development, delivery automation and good software
engineering practices.
· Experience with message-driven architectures and event-driven systems would be
beneficial.
· Experience with Kafka, Kafka Streams or Kafka Connect would also be beneficial.
· Experience working with applications deployed in Kubernetes environments would also be
beneficial.
· Has experience working in Unix / Linux operation systems.
· Has experience working with SDLC tools: Jira, BitBucket, Artifactory, Jenkins, etc
· Has experience working in a global team, helping others through pair programming and
knowledge sharing and helping the team improve their development practices.
· Shows excellent analytical and problem solving skills. Has a can-do attitude, can partner with
others inside and outside of the development team to investigate issues, drive conversations
to find and agree solutions and communicate those solutions to a diverse set of
stakeholders.
· Will be able to partner with business, operations, developers, architects and infrastructure
teams to help.
· Participate and involvement in shaping the future platform i.e. Design sessions
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.