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



Location – Newark, NJ



Duration – 12 month + contract





Top Skills Details



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.



 



Additional Skills & Qualifications



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)