Software Engineer III - SAS Application Development

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Job Description :

This position is for a detail-oriented middleware and full-stack JAVA developer with strong programming, SQL and shell scripting skills .

The ideal candidate has a trailblazer mentality with a 'many hats' technology background showing that they are interested in more than just Java development.

Candidate will work closely with business and technology partners to deliver solutions and must possess advanced problem-solving skills and the willingness to learn.

Candidates must work well in a supportive and transparent team environment, while having the ability to research and resolve issues independently.

Need a strong communicator with great verbal and written communication skills; a confident and creative problem-solver who can lead interaction with vendor resource while solving issues, who has the ability to communicate effectively and concisely and to engage and influence teams across technology and the business.

This job is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the job include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional and compliance requirements, and solutions are well designed with maintainability / ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset.

Job expectations include a strong knowledge of development and testing practices common to the industry and design and architectural patterns.

Required Qualifications :

• Requirements include 7-10 years of experience (preferably in the financial industry).
• UNIX / LINUX experience, well-versed with commands as part of Shell Scripting
• Strong SQL experience with DB2, Oracle or MS SQL Server
• Proven experience in JAVA / J2EE and Object-Oriented Design and Programming
• Strong Spring experience (Spring Batch or Spring Integration a plus)
• At least one ORM / Persistence Framework : iBatis / MyBatis, Hibernate, JPA
• SOA, REST / SOAP Web Services, CXF, JAXWS / JAXRS, JSON, XML
• Maven, Test Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI), JUnit, Mockito
• IDE : Eclipse, RAD, or other
• Single Page Application (SPA) development
• At least one RIA Framework : jQuery (preferred), YUI, Ext JS, DOJO
• Front-end web development with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Ajax
• Experience in using version control tools like Bit Bucket, GitHub and Subversion.
• Agile / Iterative development and full SDLC development

Desired Qualifications :

• Stored Procedures, NDMs, AutoSys
• Cassandra, Hadoop, Kafka, MQ
• Development in a Cloud environment
• SAS experience a huge plus

Responsibilities :

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement / story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
• Designs, develops, and modifies architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained
• Mentors other software engineers and coach team on Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) practices and automating tool stack
• Executes story refinement, definition of requirements, and estimating work necessary to realize a story through the delivery lifecycle
• Performs spike / proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas
• Automates manual release activities
• Designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites (integration, regression, performance)

Skills :

• Application Development
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Test Engineering

Shift :

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week :