Senior Java Developer

SUMMARY:
Our client is currently looking for a Senior Java Developer. Please be advised that this is a contract position.

POSITION INFO:

Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• Analyse, Report and structure strategies to ensure optimal systems stability
• Design and document systems, including writing and reviewing code, to automate solutions across Group IT
• Undertake measured, strict, troubleshooting of complicated systems and resolve time-critical incidents
• Develop software for the purposes of automating, monitoring and maintaining deployed infrastructure and services across Group IT
• Solve problems relating to mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence; with the goal of automating response to all non-exceptional service conditions
• Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards and methods for large-scale distributed systems across Group IT
• Responds, anticipates monitoring and adapts processes, thresholds, and configuration continuously.
• Collaborate with product developers to ensure new features have the proper operational support and maintainability - provide deep technical guidance to development teams 
• Optimise, Provide Governance and Test Solutions to support systems stability
• Manage readiness and preparedness of the network to deliver a resilient operating environment
• Review and provide recommendations for and documentation of physical resiliency test plans, test harnesses and substantiation
• Review and approve network standards as the network resilience subject expert Facilitation of resilience exercises and follow-ups with management and engineers
• Design and utilize network diagnostic tools to review network incidents for validation of resiliency working as designed
• Collaborate with network modelling experts to perform availability studies
  Monitor, Design and deliver on plans to support and continuously build systems resilience
• Responsible to maximise network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network problems and outages, scheduling upgrades, and collaborating with network architects on network optimization
• Drive the undertaking of data network fault investigations in local and wide area environments, using information from multiple sources
• Secure network systems by establishing and enforcing policies, and defining and monitoring access
• Support and administration of firewall environments in line with IT Security Policy
• Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks and participating in professional organizations
• Report network operational status by gathering and prioritizing information 
• Configurate routing and switching equipment and firewalls
• Remote troubleshooting and fault finding if issues occur 
• Establish and mature the Group Information Technology Resilience and operational readiness capability to ensure system stability and adequate remediation
• Establish and mature the organisational capability to sustain operational readiness by identifying the principles of IT resilience, doing predictive analysis (technical and mathematical techniques, across all domains) and planning for automation of environment discovery, systems mappings and remediation tasks to establish/re-establish resilience for key banking IT systems
• Create the critical banking ecosystem view by identifying the key customer facing systems and IT services in consultation with the CIO structures, Architecture community and technical functions.
• Develop and maintain the application maturity map, in conjunction with the architects, system developers and/or vendor community that supply these systems. Influencing methods and processes required to raise (demand) and implement actions to align these critical systems to the target maturity state through coding, configuration and upgrade/replacement programmes and projects
  Assess the maturity of the monitoring and management capability to support these key systems by assessing the landscape of tools implemented to establish this capability for appropriateness. Create a roadmap, in conjunction with architecture to redress any gaps, shortcomings or overlaps
• Establish and Expand the monitoring capability for critical customer facing systems by engaging with the relevant architecture and support functions and advising on, and motivating for, new tools and automation to be implemented, as appropriate
• Drive out and develop the deployment of targeted monitoring tools as part of the critical systems remediation programme
• Contribute to stability of critical systems and services by driving the vertical assessment capability that will assess the system technical landscape of critical banking services for defects in deployment, configuration and coding issues 
• Research emerging tools, trends and industry norms and inject learnings and findings into the Group IT environment, frameworks, methods and tools to assist in targeting, achieving and maintaining resilience within targeted critical banking IT systems (Predictive analytics modelling and Preventative process modelling)
• Grow technically capable resources and give direction to the team
• Establish and manage the Critical Systems Remediation Programme portfolio and delivery roadmap to ensure system stability
• Establish and manage the programme portfolio that focuses on stability, recoverability, availability, operational security and performance of critical customer facing systems
• Identify portfolios and programmes that will deliver resilience functionality and features as part of their scope, position with relevant stakeholders and include in the backlogs (‘tagged’ projects)
• Create and maintain the IT Resilience programme roadmap (s) by identifying and analysing dependencies between initiatives 
• Plan and drive delivery of remediation actions or enhancements where suitable project or initiative do not already exist, by creating projects and work streams in the programme, or adding it to the remediation backlog
• Monitor progress of delivery by other programmes managing detail resilience plan dependencies through engagement with other portfolios and programmes, reporting on progress to the CIO communities
• Forecast, secure and owns the budget associated with the scope of the programmes by performing detailed planning and presenting to CIO teams, as appropriate for funding validation
• Participate in the identification, selection and management of 3rd party suppliers that will support the IT resilience programme portfolio deliverables and objectives. 
• Lead and co-ordinate the end to end Critical Systems Remediation programme execution to ensure system stability
• Direct and lead the vertical assessment of systems and incident data analysis (triage assessments) in order to identify the issues with critical systems
• Establish, resource and maintain a continuous improvement remediation and enhancement component team to prioritise, plan and manage delivery of findings, issues, fixes and enhancements required to move critical .

Additional Skills

• AWS/Services
• Jenkins,
• Terraform
• Bamboo
• GIT
• Bit Bucket. 
• Kubernetes Docker / Containers
  Observerability Tools (i.e. Promethues / Grafana)
• Microservices / Event driven Microservices (desirable)
  Java (desirable)

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