Java Developers Glasgow Tech Centre

Job description

Java Developer – Asset Management - Associate

Due to ongoing investment and expansion at our award winning Glasgow Technology Centre, we have a number of new opportunities available for talented Java Developers. Located in the heart of Glasgow City Centre, our centre is one of 2 strategic, pure technology hubs globally at JP Morgan.

Our opportunities offer the chance to work on interesting challenges and projects, with what are truly cutting edge technologies.

Responsibilities include:

• Delivery of software on time and on budget, based on original scope & requirements

• Designing software and producing scalable and resilient technical designs

• Digesting and understanding Business Requirements and designing new modules/functionality to meet those needs

• Creating Automated Unit Tests using Flexible/Open Source Frameworks using a Test Driven Development approach

• Partner with supporting tech leads to develop realistic and achievable project estimates

• Analysis and build within Control, Stability, Resiliency, Capacity & Performance areas

• Testing: Unit, SIT & UAT planning and management

• Robust delivery of code into the production environment

• Take part in decisions affecting long range organizational goals & strategic planning.

• Proactively look to develop, implement and further development best practices across the group. The areas of focus should include, but not be limited to quality improvement, code reviews, code/architecture standards, code reuse, and reduction of support calls, technical documentation and technical design specifications.

Desired profile

Qualifications

• Relevant university degree, specialized training or equivalent work experience

• Proven track record of application development experience

• Confidence with Core Java and J2EE with Java

• Java Frameworks i.e. Spring; Hibernate

• Test Driven Development Skills

• Exposure/ competence with Agile Development approach

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

• Process analysis and design

• Experience in the following technologies would be useful, however not essential: XQuery, MarkLogic, FpML, MQ/JMS, Web Services, Flex, Maven, Unix shell scripting, BI skills (Business Objects preferably or Cognos), Sybase, ASE or MSSQL including stored procedures