Global Financial Firm located in Tampa, FL has an immediate contract opportunity for an experienced Java Developer with Application/Production Support
"This role is currently work-from-home and will move to the office environment after the COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.” must have reliable internet, computer and android or iphone for remote access
UI development experience , most recent with Angular. Knowledge of ElasticSearch, Logstash and Kibana.
Java/Oracle/Big Data
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science and/or related discipline.
• Automation experience with programming languages like Java, Python , Celonis or Shell Scripting
Strong monitoring background with Log Analytics, Synthetic Transaction Monitoring and Application Performance Monitoring tools (e.g. AppDynamics)
Excellent knowledge and demonstrated capability on scripting (Linux Shell Script preferred; Automation of production support processes through scripting (5+ years)
Good understanding of DevOps tools (i.e. Bit bucket, Jenkins, Jenskins2 Pipelines, Automated deployment tools)
Proactively identify automation opportunities in all on-boarding and previously on-boarded applications and support processes.
Coordinate the setup and application of automation and monitoring tools to ensure coverage of environment and efficient use of tools and automation over manual processes.
Data/Analytics – identify and produce dashboards and data extracts to measure and produce analytics that can be used to identify tool/automation enhancements as well as service and efficiency gains.
Automation development skills primarily for developing app – including java, Shell Scripting (Java Script/d3, Perl, PowerShell & Python).
Define and champion operational process and enforce structure, including documentation, training and runbooks, escalations, RCAs and post-mortems to ensure systems are well understood and work smoothly, and recover gracefully in case of unexpected failure.
We are seeking Application Support contractors. The candidate must have strong motivation to drive, lead and be successful in their endeavors, great teamwork and team building skills will be a key factor to the success of the team.
The ideal candidate should be technically astute, well organized, proactive and be comfortable discussing issues with business and technical users at all levels. Must have a strong IT background in JAVA, SQL and Unix. The team supports a number of Finance, Treasury, Risk and Accounting groups.
Strong focus on communication and technical skills, system stability, quality and functionality against user expectations, problem management and resolution, including issue documentation, root cause analysis and trend analysis. Ensure all processes and procedures are being followed at all times to comply with both internal and external audit and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
• Possess good understanding of Regulatory Reporting primarily the monthly, biannual and annual CCAR submissions.
• Understand Risk and Finance Reporting of Risk Weighted Assets impact to Client Businesses to the granular level of data elements and source systems data lineage.
• Resolve issues that are escalated to Level 3 related to the Services in a timely manner to provide compliance with all applicable Service Levels.
• Provide in-depth expertise and troubleshooting on specific platforms or applications.
• Perform code analysis, bug identification and fixes, preparation and coordination for deployment
• Provide sanity checks after production code fix deployment
• Work with the application support team and Communicate issues and status updates with all stakeholders effectively.
• Ability to dive deep into the code structure to understand complex algorithms and troubleshoot system/data problems.
• Provide technical oversight across systems and applications; leverage skills across team and department.
• Provide ideas and conduct efficiency and effectiveness improvements in support processes.
• Perform Incident and Problem management including prioritization, cause analysis and escalation to appropriate groups.
• Good Analytical skills to understand and articulate issues
• Be innovative and proactive in suggesting solutions
• Analyze and respond to end users technical issues and analytical inquiries
• Demonstrate drive and initiative; be goal-oriented, dedicated and self-sufficient.
• Perform root cause analysis and event correlation for all tickets, identifying preventive measures, making recommendations to fix root causes, implementing approved fixes, and post-mortems
• Partner with development and other technology teams to develop strategy regarding overall architecture and infrastructure, identify and defines necessary system enhancements; analyze existing system logic, identify problems; and recommend and implement solutions
• Be able to work well under pressure, adapt quickly to changing priorities and maintain focus on key tasks during busy periods.
• Perform detailed failure analysis reports for all service level failures and recommend and implement means to prevent future failures
• Communicate complex technical issues to business users in a language they can understand
• Provide effective client communication during regular updates or escalate when appropriate.
• Provide Overnight support for the applications on a rotational basis. Be prepared to work out of hours and weekends to support upgrades and new releases to the application.
• Plan for and carry out annual Continuity of Business (COB) tests, this will involve liaising with DBA's, System Administrators, Users and other technical support teams to ensure our procedures and processes run accordingly.
• Ensure the Production Support documentation is kept up to date. Employment Type: []