Java Developer with financial back

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Job Title– Java Developer with recent financial experience of 5 years

Location – Newark, NJ

Duration – 12 month + contract

1. Ten plus years of overall exp and 7 plus years of exp building out core financial trading systems in Core Java 8
2. Experience with one of the caching technologies for memory processing for preparation to the cloud (ie Coherence, ElastiCache for Redis , Hazelcast)
3. Must have Kafka and streaming exp
4. Must have extensive financial services exp, Fixed income is a huge plus. Ideally front office exp with a Bank or Hedgefund (Bloomberg, Jeffries , Goldman Sachs, Wells Faro, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank)

Description

PGIM Fixed Income – Investment Strategy Java Engineer (contract) – 2 head count

What You Will Do:

• Build and maintain new and existing applications in preparation for a large-scale architectural migration within an Agile function.
• Align with the Investment Tech Product Owner and Scrum Master in assessing business needs and transforming them into scalable applications.
• Build and maintain code to manage data received from heterogenous data formats including web-based sources, internal/external databases, flat files, heterogenous data formats (binary, ASCII).
• Design, build and support data formats, conversion, validation, XML, Json
• Design, build and launch new data extraction, transformation and loading processes
• Design and support effective storage and retrieval of very large internal and external data set
• Assess the impact of scaling up and scaling out and ensure sustained data management and data delivery performance.
• Build interfaces for supporting evolving and new applications and accommodating new data sources and types of data.
• Mentor junior engineers on various projects.

Skills You Will Need:

• 7+ years of experience in building out core financial trading systems in Core Java and/or Python.
• Cloud experience (Spark/Scala/EC2/Snowflake).
• Substantial knowledge in building out applications within bi-weekly Agile sprint regiment.
• Direct experience supporting front office end-users (PM, Quant).
• Knowledge of Jira, Confluence, Agile development methodology & DevOps.
• Strong knowledge of RDBMS, with a strong preference for Hadoop.
• Experience with building microservices using Spring boot framework.
• Experience with one of the messaging frameworks like Kafka, Rabbit-MQ or IBM MQ.
• Experience with one of the caching technologies.
• Experience in building web applications using Angular and other JavaScript libraries.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to think quickly and offer alternatives both independently and within teams.
• Proven ability to work quickly in a dynamic environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science or a related field.

1. Ten plus years of overall exp and 7 plus years of exp building out core financial trading systems in Core Java 8
2. Experience with one of the caching technologies for memory processing for preperation to the cloud (ie Coherence, ElastiCache for Redis , Hazelcast)
3. Must have Kafka and streaming exp
4. Must have extensive financial services exp, Fixed income is a huge plus. Ideally front office exp with a Bank or Hedgefund (Bloomberg, Jeffries , Goldman Sachs, Wells Faro, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank)