Lead Java Developer

Expected

Operating system

• Own the end-to-end technical solution implementation, and support for several components & APIs as a part of Market Risk Platform.
• Provide management, technical leadership, and direction to internal development team on the design, development, implementation, and deployment of highly performant, secure, and scalable software.
• As required, participate in core development alongside the team.
• Strictly enforce and maintain adherence to best practices in the area of security, performance and scalability.
• Participate in estimation, planning, and costing of new projects and initiatives across multiple metrics.
• Assist in evaluation efforts with new and emerging technologies to assess technical fit and risk. Investigate and keep up to date on emerging and cutting-edge technologies, and lead knowledge sharing.
• Drive innovation through out-of-the-box thinking to solve critical business challenges and demands.
• Work with the Senior Architects and Engineering Managers to validate designs, discuss trade-offs and benefits of various approaches, and ensure long-term scalability and performance over time as data volumes and user concurrency grows with product adoption.
• Work with Cloud, Containers and Infra teams to ensure best practices and standards are followed related to infrastructure/hosting, data security, user access management, permissions, monitoring, patching, and logging/auditing.

• In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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