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***Java Developer (Hadoop/Kafka) - Contract - Financial Services - London/Remote***

Java Developer (Hadoop/Kafka)

6 Month Rolling Contract

London/Remote

UpTo £619pwd Umbrella Company

Key Skills: Java 8, Hbase, Apache Spark/Hive, Big Data (Hadoop), Kafka

Location
Due to COVID19 the role is fully remote. The applicant should be able to commute to the office if the group's guidance change.

Our client has been serving the households, businesses and communities of Britain for over 250 years. They offer a comprehensive range of financial products and services - including current accounts, savings, mortgages, loans and credit cards.

The Role

Forward-thinking engineering culture that supports the business in delivering high quality, efficient and positive impact outcomes for customers.
Work in cross-disciplinary feature teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high quality software.

Key Responsibilities

• Works within feature teams to groom stories and define acceptance criteria against feature business requirements
• Maintains a focus on reducing risk and building confidence in the team and its stakeholders on the quality of Software Engineering
• Ensure Software Engineering is conducted in a way which is consistent with the collective views, frameworks, patterns and best practices that exist across the wider Engineering community
• Work with Quality Engineers, Business Analysts, Product Owners, Architects and Designers to understand solution choices, whether operational or technological, and help define an incremental delivery plan
• Learning from, aligning to and feeding into relevant Guilds across the Group to maintain and evolve best practice in Software Engineering
• Ensure your area of responsibility is aligned with overall engineering strategies and transformation, pushing boundaries and seeking opportunities to improve
• Engineers Software to the high standard of quality in consideration of experience with Chapter Leads and Guilds
• Follows agile life cycle, from grooming stories, to the creation of unit tests, the coding of features and then demoing to POs for acceptance
• Creates unit tests in accordance with story acceptance criteria to move fast and mitigate future regression
• Constantly assess quality against Lab agile definitions to drive higher quality software with the team
• Presents and communicates Software Engineering techniques to appropriate Engineering Chapters and Guilds
• Strives to operate Software Engineering tools effectively and follow industry standards to always push forward internal procedures and techniques
• Work with Chapter Leads to comply with relevant legislation and internal/external standards related to Software Engineering and software security
• Works to support Quality Engineers in the design of simple test strategies for non-complex projects
• Works with Quality Engineering to resolve defects whilst communicating lessons learnt to grow knowledge and prevent similar issues in the future

Essential Skills & Experience

Strong demonstrable knowledge of:

• Spark SQL is required
• Java8
• Apache Hive
• HBase
• Apache Spark
• Big Data (Hadoop) - Cloudera or Hortonworks Stack preferred
• Kafka
• Maven
• Experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence
• Experience of working as part of an agile team
• Experience of using modern software development toolsets and ability to stretch into DevOps, Continuous Integration and Delivery

Other Skills and Experiences:

• Prior knowledge of regulatory reporting an advantage specifically Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), and Dodd Frank
• Strong knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in Feature Team delivery of software products
• Deployment: understand and utilise skills to build, manage and deploy code into enterprise environments
• Apply good practice approaches according to the relevant paradigm (for example, functional programming, object oriented, event driven or procedural)
• Responds to the business environment and business issues related to software development

TO APPLY - PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL WITH AN UP TO DATE CV

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.

Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities employer.

***Java Developer (Hadoop/Kafka) - Contract - Financial Services - London/Remote***

Java Developer (Hadoop/Kafka)

6 Month Rolling Contract

London/Remote

UpTo £619pwd Umbrella Company

Key Skills: Java 8, Hbase, Apache Spark/Hive, Big Data (Hadoop), Kafka

Location
Due to COVID19 the role is fully remote. The applicant should be able to commute to the office if the group's guidance change.

Our client has been serving the households, businesses and communities of Britain for over 250 years. They offer a comprehensive range of financial products and services - including current accounts, savings, mortgages, loans and credit cards.

The Role

Forward-thinking engineering culture that supports the business in delivering high quality, efficient and positive impact outcomes for customers.
Work in cross-disciplinary feature teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high quality software.

Key Responsibilities

• Works within feature teams to groom stories and define acceptance criteria against feature business requirements
• Maintains a focus on reducing risk and building confidence in the team and its stakeholders on the quality of Software Engineering
• Ensure Software Engineering is conducted in a way which is consistent with the collective views, frameworks, patterns and best practices that exist across the wider Engineering community
• Work with Quality Engineers, Business Analysts, Product Owners, Architects and Designers to understand solution choices, whether operational or technological, and help define an incremental delivery plan
• Learning from, aligning to and feeding into relevant Guilds across the Group to maintain and evolve best practice in Software Engineering
• Ensure your area of responsibility is aligned with overall engineering strategies and transformation, pushing boundaries and seeking opportunities to improve
• Engineers Software to the high standard of quality in consideration of experience with Chapter Leads and Guilds
• Follows agile life cycle, from grooming stories, to the creation of unit tests, the coding of features and then demoing to POs for acceptance
• Creates unit tests in accordance with story acceptance criteria to move fast and mitigate future regression
• Constantly assess quality against Lab agile definitions to drive higher quality software with the team
• Presents and communicates Software Engineering techniques to appropriate Engineering Chapters and Guilds
• Strives to operate Software Engineering tools effectively and follow industry standards to always push forward internal procedures and techniques
• Work with Chapter Leads to comply with relevant legislation and internal/external standards related to Software Engineering and software security
• Works to support Quality Engineers in the design of simple test strategies for non-complex projects
• Works with Quality Engineering to resolve defects whilst communicating lessons learnt to grow knowledge and prevent similar issues in the future

Essential Skills & Experience

Strong demonstrable knowledge of:

• Spark SQL is required
• Java8
• Apache Hive
• HBase
• Apache Spark
• Big Data (Hadoop) - Cloudera or Hortonworks Stack preferred
• Kafka
• Maven
• Experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence
• Experience of working as part of an agile team
• Experience of using modern software development toolsets and ability to stretch into DevOps, Continuous Integration and Delivery

Other Skills and Experiences:

• Prior knowledge of regulatory reporting an advantage specifically Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), and Dodd Frank
• Strong knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in Feature Team delivery of software products
• Deployment: understand and utilise skills to build, manage and deploy code into enterprise environments
• Apply good practice approaches according to the relevant paradigm (for example, functional programming, object oriented, event driven or procedural)
• Responds to the business environment and business issues related to software development

TO APPLY - PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL WITH AN UP TO DATE CV

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.

Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities employer.