Java Developer (Salesforce)

Story Behind the Need

Business group: CRM, Sales & Branch Performance - Performance engineering team, part of Customer Servicing engineering in Scotia Digital, focused on providing solutions that assist front line staff across channels in deepening relationship with customers, providing better service and offering better products to them, and help improve sales & productivity along the way.

Project: Required to assist with development on our Salesforce MVP4 project - MVP4 initiative of our Retail Salesforce instance – Salesforce MVP for additional functionalities – within Salesforce, they sell additional features and functionalities – what is required here is customization and integration of existing systems to those features – developing and maintaining APIs

Candidate Value Proposition:

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on application that is used in every banking branch of Canada and is one of the largest apps in the Bank so is a high visibility project; possibility for extension; have the opportunity to integrate with Salesforce or another app that integrates with it - as it is a highly sought tool in the market, enhancing the contractor’s profile.

Typical Day in Role:

• Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications

• Act as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts

• Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution

• Assure quality security and compliance requirements are met for supported area

• Developing and maintaining APIs

• Tech Stack: Java 8+, Spring Boot - mostly back-end

• Working in an Agile environment – daily scrums

• Working with BAs (who will be eliciting requirements), QAs (ensuring code is tested)

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

1) 8+ years of progressive experience in technical space

2) 5+ years web service development with Java 8+ or above, JAX-WS, JAX-RS, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Data and Swagger/OAS (Open API Specification) – please list which (ideally have all but if a bit less years with 1-2 of these is OK)

3) 2+ years hands on experience working with cloud based microservices (Azure, PCF or GCP) and MicroApps development

4) 2+ years’ experience with APIs and microservices

5) 5+ years with database development writing stored procedures, triggers with DB2 OR MS SQL

Nice-To-Have Skills:

1) 2 years’ experience with Javascript, ReactJS, NodeJs or AngularJs

2) 2 years’ experience with HTML5

3) Experience with JSON/RESTful, XML, and SOAP services

4) 5 years’ experience with Java Frameworks: Spring, JUnit, TestNG

5) Experience from FI/banking/large organization

6) Salesforce experience

Soft Skills Required:

• Communication skills

• Ability to solve technical problems/ processes and understand complex details

• Ability to increase operating efficiency with high quality technical solutions

• Ability to analyze complex situations and problems and do the necessary research using multiple sources of information to arrive at innovative solutions

Education:

Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field preferred

Best VS. Average Candidate:

Best has worked in a large financial institution, developing APIs that integrate with Salesforce applications

Candidate Review & Selection

2 rounds MS Teams video Interviews – 30-45 minutes

1st – technical panel interview – with HM and other team members (developers) – technical questions, really honing into technical skillset and demonstrating understanding of technical frameworks, asking situational problem questions and have to provide with solution on the spot

2nd – technical/culture fit – with Director, HM and Architect

Job 70648