Software Engineer

German/Russian speaking software engineer needed to act as Java, Scala, and architecture SME for an investment bank in Zurich. The role includes a full range of development activities, from working closely with the business to define requirements and solution, close contact with the offshore scrum team for development phases managed with Jira, hand on coding where required, solution QA and release support. The candidate will also be helping with the long-term architectural decisions and strategy, ensuring this is implemented where possible.

Required Experience/Skills:
- Technology critical: Java, MQ, SQL, Linux.
- Technology desirable: Oracle, WebSphere.
- Agile/Scrum process, Jira, Git
- Experience of reference data management applications, large data volumes, data design, user interaction, data/business rules.
- Experience of data hub/integration applications (bespoke or COTS) - messaging, file transfer, ETL, data quality, reconciliation.
- Good specification skills in the Agile manner using Jira (brief, clear, etc)
- Strong English, and German or Russian would be useful