Newsworthy

The Senior Java Developer is responsible for project-team leadership, support and direction with business systems analysis, development and occasional maintenance support in an object/service oriented architecture implemented on the Java platform, and also:
• Collaborates with Senior Systems Architects, Software Team Leads and other Software Developers to design, develop and deploy technical solutions
• Analyzes complex information, designs, develops and troubleshoots database applications
• Reviews functional requirements and prepares and documents technical program, subsystem and system designs and solutions and their associated project task descriptions and effort estimates
• Uses both industry-standards and company’s existing systems architecture, design techniques and development standards and reviews new work with others to ensure it complies with industry and company standards
• Documents technical requirements, program and subsystem designs, project task descriptions, effort estimates, and unit and integration tests
• Performs new development, maintenance fixes and enhancements to meet business requirements
• Assists other teams to troubleshoot application issues in production, quality assurance and other environments
• Develops, reviews, refines, uses and documents plans for both automated and manual unit and integration tests and/or assures unit and integration tests are successfully completed prior to production
• Tests programs for integration prior to production
• Mentors other software developers and IT staff members
• Documents resolutions to system problems
• Documents designs for system requirements
Minimum Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree (pref. Computer Science or related degree) or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in:
• Highly self-motivated, with the ability to complete tasks with minimal guidance, and to learn independently
• Excellent analytical and problem solving abilities
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills in working in a cross-functional team comprised of Product Analysts, QA, UAT, Development and PMO members
• Ability to juggle tasks and priorities to meet rapidly changing deadlines
• Must work with System Architects to review/approve program and subsystem designs
• Proficiency in UNIX/Linux and Microsoft Windows distributed computing
• Basic skills with Excel spreadsheets and Word documents
Preferred Experience and Skills
• Background in Securities/Banking/Financial Services
• Java IDE (preferably IntelliJ IDEA)
• Unix/Linux
• XML and/or Web Services
• JDBC and JPA/Hibernate
• Relational DB principles using Structured Query Language (SQL)
• Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Experience working in a desktop Linux environment (preferably CentOS)
• Experience working with an issue management system
• Experience working with a wiki