Senior Java Developer - Contract

SENIOR JAVA DEVELOPER - 6 MONTH CONTRACT

My financial services client are looking for a number of Performance Architects on a contract basis. This is a Greenfield project that has been signed off for the next two years, and has the best contract rates on the market.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Development of cutting edge applications on a variety of technical stacks and delivered via multiple channels.
- Act as an SME in several technologies.
- Delivery of elegant solutions to large, complex, business problems.
- Drive continuous improvement within development teams through coaching and process improvement.
- Working in cross-functional teams you will be developing features end-to-end across the software stack and responsible for all non-functional capabilities.
- You will be expected to write elegant, simple code that lends itself to low cost maintenance, extensibility, testability and performance.
- You will validate proposed approaches and explore new concepts using proof-of-concepts, wire frames and early experience prototypes.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

- A genuine passion and interest in technology and software development with a thorough knowledge of web trends, best practices, and new technologies with the drive to stay informed on upcoming trends.
- Expert in a number of programming methodologies and design patterns.
- The ability to write and review well documented, maintainable, and testable code.
- Proven ability to develop expert knowledge of a business domain.
- Spring Framework experience - Spring MVC (highly desirable)
- Strong exposure with RESTful API's and/or RESTful Webservices
- Experience working with a number of the major open-source or commercial frameworks (Spring, GWT, .NET, Rails...) and expert in at least one.
- Experience of NoSQL technologies for example MongoDB, Cassandra etc.
- Experience of automated unit testing frameworks and continuous integration solutions.