Sr. Java Developer

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About the Job

Our client has a requirement for Sr. Java Developer for a 12 months contract opportunity. The position is located in Toronto.

 

What makes this Special

Our client is one of the largest Banks in North America. With exponential growth and millions of customers and clients who are served through our various businesses: Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking, Wealth Management, U.S. Personal and Commercial Banking, and Wholesale Banking. Being part of this company is being part of a better Canadian service.

Role

• We are looking for one more strong Java candidates.
• This role is for Support or Third Level Code support for Java applications.
• These candidates will be required to handle multiple applications and needs to understand the Incident / problem management process if possible. Java applications are connecting to IBM book of record and other various databases, DB2 Oracle.

 

Responsibilities

• Support or Third Level Code support for Java applications. These candidates will be required to handle multiple applications and needs to understand the Incident / problem management process if possible. Java applications are connecting to IBM book of record and other various databases, DB2 Oracle.
• Develop and host web enabled and database driven applications in Java. Apply analytical skills to resolve problems and deliver solutions. Design and develop quality solutions for systems issues consistent with project objectives. Develop, implement and maintain solutions that maximize system availability. Periodic scope assistance Oversee other developers. Troubleshoot coding issues. Ensure coding continuity.
• Delivery and development of various projects and contribute to future enhancement, support and maintenance post-delivery. Prime responsibility will be to develop detailed design specifications, create and review code and assess impact on other applications. Role will work closely with other team members to ensure consistency in coding standards and approaches and to optimize any synergy and re-use opportunities.
• Responsible for leading technical aspects of project from inception through to deployment. Participate in analysis and system design specification sessions. Documentation of design options and solutions according to System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology. Ensure that solutions adhere to development best practices and architectural principles.
• Apply analytical skills to resolve problems and deliver viable solutions. Anticipate obstacles and execute proactive approaches to issues. Active participation in issue resolution.
• Provide detailed development estimates to Project Manager for development effort as well as weekly status reporting and budget forecasting.
• Configuration management for the sub projects within the release.
• Responsible for coding, testing, packaging, deployment and support of builds as code is promoted from development, system, acceptance and production environments. May lead code reviews.
• Work closely with System Test Environment Management Team (STEMT) to ensure that environments are fully functional and that builds are properly deployed.
• Participate in development of test strategy, test plans, test cases and testing efforts (unit testing and integration testing of code).
• Provide technical support to business and testing team during testing phases. Track defects, defect triage and resolution.
• Data set up and environment shake down.
• Knowledge transfer within group.
• Ensure required documentation is housed in the project repository and that knowledge transfer has occurred to full time staff upon completion of contract term.

 

Requirements or Qualifications

• Solid communication is important for this role and FI/Banking industry experience is preferred.
• Must be able to handle multiple applications and are able to troubleshoot and fix deployment issues.
• Provide support on existing applications and new projects; troubleshoot levels 1 and 2 support on defects.
• Please note:  this candidate will be working regular hours; however, from time to time, in order to support deployment issues, they may need to work after hours and may be carrying a pager.

 

Must Have

• J2EE, JSP, Java, Core Java, Java Framework experience
• MKS, JMS, MQ, DB2 Oracle, SQL, HTML
• Development experience in distributed windows or Java environment.
• experience working with large projects and developed newer technology
• Financial /Banking experience

 

Nice To Have 

• Wealth experience
• experience working with IBM book of records
• Microsoft / Host environment

How to Apply

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