Development Specialist

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Development Specialist Inside IR35Up to £1090 p/d (Umbrella) or £850 (PAYE)London - Will require 1 day a week in the officeASAP Start12 Months (Extensions likely) Job Description

The Traded Risk function seeks a senior software engineer to join the team to help in the on boarding and roll out of a new, critical ETL application. Developer will be working on an Apache Spark based platform primarily responsible for learning and supporting the various shared components which comprise the application. In addition, will be responsible for daily batch and streaming data transformations. Candidate may additionally work on other projects critical to the Risk function.Typical activities for this role includes:Building, Testing, and Supporting micro-services that manage business processes centering around a Spark data transformation platformBuilding data pipelines in SparkDeveloping and supporting interfaces to other systems, both inside and outside the firmInterpretation of business requirements from a technical perspectivePerforming peer code reviewsTraining new team membersActive participation in planning and rollout of large scale releasesCreation and maintenance of technical documentation e.g. system overviews, architectural docs, user manuals and support firefighting guidesSetup and maintain interfaces with application performance metrics (APM) toolingPush for, and respond to the availability of new infrastructure types within the BankOrganized - must write performant, well documented, easily supportable code

General Skills & Requirements7-10+ years' experience in IT developmentFluent in Java and related software engineering tools, and willing to quickly learn professional-grade Python, ScalaExperience with SQL, JSON processing libs and REST APIs very helpful; XML libs also very helpfulVery comfortable with Unix in general; Familiar with Unix performance measurementFamiliarity with HBASE, Parquet and Arrow a plusExperience with products Oracle, Postgres, and MongoDB a plusInterest in technical problems stemming in business requirementsGood to have Data Analytics skills (as will be dealing with processing of large data sets)Excellent verbal and written communication skills, experience presenting technical choicesExcellent interpersonal skills - self-motivated and pro-active worker

Nice to HaveBackground in computer science / engineeringExperience with Jupyter notebooksExperience with a variety of API's and Messaging Types - REST, SOAP, JMS/Solace, XML, JSONIf you feel like your skills match this spec then please do submot your CV and will be in touch.