Senior BigData Developer

Project description

Our client is the corporate and investment banking arm of The Group, world's 12th largest bank by total assets. We work daily with international branches located in 30 markets by:

1. Envisioning and preparing the Bank's futures information systems
2. Partnering and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large scale development projects.
3. Providing premium In-house Banking applications.

This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market. We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges.

The department is responsible for development and maintenance of Risk and Finance applications used by worldwide users covering Market Risk, Counterparty Risk, and Finance domain. The applications are in-house developments with a mix of Microsoft and open source technologies.

Recent years have seen unprecedented evolution to the technical infrastructure available to answer still more challenging regulation. The open position is to join one major investment project to answer to FRTB regulation. To be ready to tackle the regulatory requirement, the Market Risk Information System platform is being redesigned to be global and adaptable enabling automated reporting and real-time processing and monitoring. The Market Risk data Intelligence project will transform the Market Risk application landscape as it was known to bring it to the next level.

Skills

Must have

1. 8+ years in Software development
2. Hands on Data ingest and data processing technology like Spark streaming and Spark
3. Hands on Messaging systems like Kafka, Flume or ActiveMQ, MQSeries or RabbitMQ
4. Hands on knowledge on Hadoop (preferably Hortonworks distribution)
5. HDFS, HBase, Hive, ORC/Parquet. Build tool
6. Maven/sbt/ant, UML, Restful web services, Jenkins/Team City, Source management – SVN/GIT, TDD using Junit, Jira/QC.
7. Java/J2EE development
8. Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both team mates and management
9. Strong analytical and problem solving skills
10. Proficient software development life cycle
11. Appetite to follow technology trend and participate to communities
12. Passion for sharing expertise and grow team members' skills
13. Interest in mentoring and guiding junior team members on the path of high quality deliverables.

Nice to have

1. Solution design using proven patterns, awareness of anti-patterns, performance tuning, especially in streaming
2. Knowledge of tools like Phoenix, ElasticSearch, Sqoop, StreamSets are good to have.
3. Basic understanding of finance and investment banking