Sr. Java Scala Developer / Lead_NJ

We are looking to hire a Java Scala Developer / Lead for Jersey City, NJ. About Synechron: Headquartered in New York and with 22 offices a...

We are looking to hire a Java Scala Developer / Lead for Jersey City, NJ.

About Synechron:

Headquartered in New York and with 22 offices around the world, Synechron is a leading Digital Transformation consulting firm and is working to Accelerate Digital initiatives for banks, asset managers, and insurance companies around the world. Synechron uniquely delivers these firms an end-to-end Digital, Consulting and Technology capabilities with expertise in wholesale banking, wealth management and insurance as well as emerging technologies like Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science. This has helped the company to grow to $650 Million+ in annual revenue and 10,000+ employees, and we're continuing to invest in research and development in the form of Accelerators (prototype applications) developed in our global Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs).

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Job Description:

The position is for a hands-on role and the candidate will be responsible for analyzing user specifications and requirements and providing assistance in onboarding alerts for the platform, perform testing and debugging applications if there is any issue. The candidate is also required to own the release management activities.

Primary Skills / Must have:

• 8+ years of professional experience in building applications in Java/Scala (Functional Programming), Spring, basic HTML, Apache Velocity template scripting and other open source technologies.
• 5+ years of experience in database access layer frameworks like Slick/Mybatis etc.
• 5+ years of experience in CI/CD tools and build tools like Gradle, managing code repositories with Git.
• 3+ years of experience in creating and consuming RESTful services.
• 2+ years exposure to work in Unix/Linux environments.
• Should also possess database skills (preferably DB2) to design new or alter existing table structures to satisfy specifications and requirements.
• 2+ years of experience working in test-drive development & continuous integration model.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Release Management and application support skills.

Secondary Skills / Desired skills:

• Exposure to performance tuning of Apache Spark application.
• Exposure to Behavior Driven Development (Cucumber).
• Working experience with Agile methodologies would be useful.