Key Accountabilities / Major Responsibilities

The position will be responsible for end-to-end systems development and L3 support including:

• Design and Architecture of Transfer Agency platform/s;
• Hands-on development on technologies like Java, Web UI, Oracle, Messaging;
• Put strong quality control checks using unit testing tools and SIT to make sure UAT deployment has no defects
• Ensure business requirements and functional design are captured, understood, estimated, signed off and delivered on time with high quality;
• Build and lead small team of technologists based in Dublin to drive platform execution initiatives;
• Work closely with offshore development teams and other platform leads to ensure consistency of delivery;
• Ensure the implementation of application instrumentation for appropriate monitoring, including health checks and application logging and handover to Prod. management/DevOps before Prod. deployment;
• Responsible for Audit, Risk issues in your area and provide UAT and L3 support
• Adopt and Align with JP Morgan’s standard toolset and technology stack and standards.

Key technologies

• Strong OO skills and Design and Architecture
• Core Java (1.8 or above)
• Messaging and streaming: MQ, Kafka
• Web frameworks – ReactJS/AngularJS
• Spring Framework , ORM: Hibernate and SpringJDBC
• Native SQL and Oracle PL/SQL
• Testing Frameworks: Unit: Junit, Mockito, Web: Selenium, BDD: Cucumber
• Apache Webserver and Apache Tomcat
• Unix Shell scripting, Git, Agile ,CI tools – Jenkins and other appropriate tools

  Qualifications and Experience

The ideal candidate possess a proven combination of analytical and IT skills with a key focus in the fund services transfer agency business domain. Additional qualifications include:

• Bachelor Degree in Information Technology;
• Minimum 10+ years of relevant Design/Architecture/Development experience in above technologies;
• Experience with managing complex third party vendor accounting platforms in the financial services industry;
• Excellent written and oral communications skills