Senior Java Swing Developer

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A fantastic new opportunity has become available for Senior Java Swing Developer with one of our Financial Services clients based in Bromley.

Role: Senior Java Swing Developer

Location: Bromley (1 Days week Onsite)

Duration: 12 Months

Status: Inside IR35

The candidate will be part of Fixed Income Currencies and Commodities technology team, which has a proven track record of delivering critical low-latency front-office pricing/trading solutions to the FICC businesses.

The candidate will be working in the eFX technology team, helping to analyze, design, build and deploy multi-tier, high availability systems globally deployed systems.

Experience and Skills required:

• Solid knowledge of Java and all aspects of GUI development using Swing including but not limited to threading, performance optimization, building UI widgets, etc
• Experienced within FX and Capital Market - Trading platform is essential.
• Business domain knowledge in FX and/or FX Options
• Experience of working in Front office systems.
• Working experience building distributed applications in Java
• Candidates must have actively used design patterns in the past implementations and demonstrate strong understanding on design patterns of why and where a pattern should be used.
• Strong understanding of Messaging Middleware concepts, usage and application.
• Experience with distributed architecture (caching, topologies, etc) and able to demonstrate strong understanding of latency, concurrency, reconciliation etc.
• Working knowledge of reading, writing and parsing XML.
• Strong understanding of a RDBMS. Must have an understanding of writing complex SQL, stored procedures, applying referential integrity & performance tuning
• Strong analytical skills with a desire to learn and deliver.
• Financial Back ground essential

Responsibilities:

• Development is primarily Java based, with peripheral technologies including TIBCO Rendezvous (RV), Sybase, UNIX shell scripting, and middleware based on IBM MQ Series.
• Repertoire should include knowledge of client-server/distributed technologies.

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV to be considered.

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