Java Developer

Job Title : Java Developer

Experience Level : Level 2

12 Months Contract

Location : Calgary (Day 1 onboarding onsite / in office presence 3x week)

Job Functions / Duties and Responsibilities :

" Collaborates with Systems Architects, Software Team Leads and other Software Developers to design, develop and deploy technical solutions.

" Analyses complex information, designs, develops and troubleshoots database applications

" Reviews functional requirements and prepares and documents technical program, subsystem and system designs and solutions and their associated project task descriptions and effort estimates

" Uses both industry-standards and company's existing systems architecture, design techniques and development standards and reviews new work with others to ensure it complies with industry and company standards.

" Documents technical requirements, program and subsystem designs, project task descriptions, effort estimates, and unit and integration tests

" Performs new development, maintenance fixes and enhancements to meet business requirements

" Assists other teams to troubleshoot application issues in production, quality assurance and other environments

" Develops, reviews, refines, uses and documents plans for both automated and manual unit and integration tests and / or assures unit and integration tests are successfully completed prior to production

" Tests programs for integration prior to production

" Mentors other software developers and IT staff members

" Documents resolutions to system problems Documents design for system requirements

Skills Required :

" Bachelor s degree (pref. Computer Science or related degree) or equivalent experience

" Minimum of 4 years experience

" Highly self-motivated, with the ability to complete tasks with minimal guidance, and to learn independently

" Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities

" Excellent English verbal and written communication skills

" Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills in working in a cross-functional team comprised of Product Analysts, QA, UAT, Development and PMO members

" Ability to juggle tasks and priorities to meet rapidly changing deadlines

" Must work with System Architects to review / approve program and subsystem designs

" Java

" Data Structures & Algorithms

" Spring Framework

" JDBC and JPA / Hibernate

" Advanced Java Concepts

" API / API Design

" Proficiency in UNIX / Linux and Microsoft Windows distributed computing

" Java IDE (preferably IntelliJ IDEA)

" Relational DB principles using Structured Query Language (SQL)

" Agile / Scrum methodologies

Desired Skills :

" Background in Securities / Banking / Financial Services

" Experience working in a desktop Linux environment

" Experience working with an issue management system

" Experience working with a wiki, confluence

" Oracle, Message Queues / Kafka

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Position Description The Developer is responsible for project-team leadership, support and direction with business systems analysis, development and occasional maintenance support in an object / service-oriented architecture implemented on the Java and React platform.