Location Address: Hybrid (biweekly/ as needed), Toronto
Contract Duration: 6 months
Extension: TBD
FTE: TBD
Number of Positions: 1
Schedule Hours: 9am – 5pm, Monday – Friday, 37.5 hrs per week
Typical Day in Role:
The candidate will be responsible for the effective design, development, and delivery of highly complex applications with focus on accuracy, performance, security and user experience. Utilizing a variety of technologies stack including Java, Oracle PL/SQL, Python, and more, and with application deployed on private and public cloud (Azure).
• Work with Sr. Management/Director of the team to drive strategy to transform and modernize our market risk management platforms using new technologies and tools available that best support the business needs and growth.
• Participate in the design, development and implementation of effective and quality solutions that resolve highly complex business problems and support business needs.
• Utilize diverse set of technologies to implement new systems, or enhancements of existing implementations, and ensure sound integration with surrounding components from end to end operational perspective.
• Ensure that delivery meets the integrity, quality, performance and reliability requirements by building automated testing and regression suites and use of DevOps principles.
• To coordinate infrastructure needs for requisitioning Unix and Windows Servers, Cloud based infrastructure, databases and assist actively with documentational requirements covering architecture, security and operational readiness.
• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment
• Primarily involved in web application update (front end development), and will be supporting other development initiatives as needed.
Must Have Skills:
• 10+ years of strong development experience in Java, Spring boot
• 5+ years’ experience using Apache Struts hands-on
• 3+ years of experience in Python with knowledge of data frames and at least one Python web framework (e.g. Flask)
• 10+ years of RDBMS such as MS SQL
• 1+ years working experience of Apache Tomcat
• Recent experience working with fluency on Linux environment with Linux command line, and shell script.
• Experience with DevOps and continuous delivery and deployment methodologies based off bitbucket, Microsoft TFS, Jenkins.
Nice-To-Have Skills:
• Experience with cloud based application and microservices (Azure or GCP) would be an asset.
• Exposure to Apache Airflow would be an asset.
• Market risk or financial risk experience is a nice to have
Soft Skills:
• Motivated individual to be able to take up leadership responsibilities
• Must possess good verbal and written communication skills, as well as strong problem-solving skills.
• Good understanding of object oriented design and design patterns, micro services architecture and high performance, and multi-threading techniques.
Best vs Average: Have broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through to back-end systems. More focus on back-end system. Must have skillsets are all critical to supporting active development initiatives and are prioritized. Springboot and Struts are of the highest priority, followed by Python (which will be used regularly as well).
Degrees or certifications:
• Bachelor's degree in a related field required
Candidate Review & Selection:
• Structure and Format: MS Teams Interview
– 1st round: Video interview with HM and developer. Technical interview with problem solving (60 mins)
– 2nd round: Potential director interview