Java Developer

Job Description

Our client delivers solutions which help to protect and enhance the connected world. Their solutions combine large scale data exploitation, ‘intelligence-grade’ security and complex services and solutions integration. They operate in four key domains of expertise: Cyber Security, Financial Crime, Communications Intelligence and Digital Transformation and are looking for a full time developer to join the software development team. The successful candidate will have proven experience in a commercial development environment.
This position requires a self-driven individual who is able to organise their time effectively and can demonstrate a flexible but methodical approach.

Knowledge/Abilities

• A good understanding of application development, performance and system architecture

• An analytical and methodical approach to software design and development

• System management, build and deployment experience

• Demonstrated technical ownership of tasks and incidents.

• An ability to interpret business requirements and translate to technical requirements.

• An ability to construct generic solutions that can be extended and used by client projects.

Useful experience

• Experience with JBoss/WebSphere/WebLogic

• Experience with Linux/Unix/AIX

•  JavaScript/HTML/CSS experience

• Oracle development and tuning experience

• Familiarity with Maven and Mercurial or other distributed version control system

• Other programming or scripting languages

Key Responsibilities

• Working in a team to implement solutions to meet business requirements

• Documentation of back-end systems and interfaces

• Carrying out enhancement work to existing applications

• Working with project teams to resolve issues and advise on use and extension of the applications

• Working with the support team to resolve client issues when required

Required

• Java J2EE platform

• Familiarity with Windows and, optionally, Linux platform

• Oracle database and SQL

Experience required

• Strong Java/J2EE skills

• Proven commercial experience

• Understand and have experience in project development, development lifecycles, development methodologies, and project scoping.