Lead Java Software Engineer

Description

Note: This position will follow our hybrid work model, we expect the selected candidate to be in the office 2-3 days a week at the St. Petersburg, FL Corporate Office location.

Job Summary:

As part of the Raymond James Bank Technology Development team, this Lead Engineer will be supporting several critical Bank applications (Bank Money Movement and Securities Based Lending). As a Lead Engineer, you will take a lead role in the detailed technical design, development, and implementation of applications using existing and emerging technology platforms. You will serve as a technical lead, helping guide architectural design decisions, developing and reviewing model and application code, and ensuring high availability and performance of our applications.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Development of Bank Money Movement and Securities Based Lending in Spring Boot, Hibernate, SQL in a continuous deployment/integration environment. Depending on the experience, candidate may also work on Java, REST services, Angular and other middle tier technologies.

• Analyzes system requirements, including identifying program interactions and appropriate interfaces between impacted components and sub systems.

• Partner with a cross-functional team to imagine, design, develop, and test.

• Participate in the development, code reviews, testing, deployment, and delivery of large-scale software applications, systems, and services.

• Build relationships with Development Managers, Engineers and Project Managers across various teams.

• Participate in Agile project management methodologies to provide technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

• Stay up to date with tools, trends, technologies and frameworks and develop proof of concepts.

• Makes recommendations towards the development of new code or to reuse of existing code.

• Participates in software system testing and validation procedures, programming and documentation.

• Reviews test results; documents test activities, and records remedial actions.

• Ensures proper analysis of problems and programming approaches to prevent rework and schedule slippage.

• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• J2EE experience in a professional enterprise setting.

• Enterprise Application Platform experience (JBoss, Spring Boot, Hibernate).

• Experience with REST API integration.

• In-depth DBMS experience in Oracle and MySQL.

• Experience working with Angular build tools and configuration (Angular CLI) will be nice to have.

• Jasper Reports is nice to have.

• Strong expertise with HTML, CSS, and writing cross-browser compatible code.

• Experience in troubleshooting, tuning and optimizing rendering time, memory & network utilization.

• Experience with deconstructing complex problems into modular simple solutions.

• Understanding of the SDLC lifecycle for Agile & Waterfall methodologies.

• Good knowledge of DevOps & collaboration tools: Jenkins, GIT, TFS, Sonar.

• Strong understanding and discipline around software test approaches.

• Strong sense of dedication and teamwork toward a goal.

Education/Previous Experience:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Business or related degree and five (5) years of relevant experience or a combination of education, training and experience approved by HR.

• Ideally five (5) or more years of experience with Spring Boot.

• Financial Services experience preferred.

Licenses/Certifications:

• None required.

Job: Technology

Primary Location: US-FL-St. Petersburg-Saint Petersburg

Other Locations: US-FL-St. Petersburg-Saint Petersburg

Organization Technology

Schedule Full-time

Job Shift Day Job

Travel Yes, 5 % of the Time

Req ID: 2400452

Raymond James Bank is an EOE/AA and VEVRAA Federal Contractor

Priority will be given to protected veterans

EOE Protected Veterans/Disability