Big Data Java Engineer

JAVA BIG DATA** **CONTRACT OPPORTUNITY** **LONDON/REMOTE**

I am currently recruiting for a big data java developer on behalf of a tier one investment bank on 12-month contract term.

This role is unfortunately is inside IR35, but is paying up to £700 per day with strong likelihood of renewals.

Developer Skills & Experience:

* Expert in Core Java, Apache Spark batch and streaming, Delta Lake, ADLS, Kafka

* Expert in DataBricks on Azure, BigData, event driven solutions

* Expert in DevOps, Automated testing and CI/CD (using GitLab), Maven, Gradle.

* Experience delivering solutions using Microservice Architecture, Containers, Kubernetes, AKS, Helm, Terraform, ARM

* Ability to communicate effectively well within team, across teams and in larger community of practice, as well as facilitate agile ceremonies.

* Ability to analyse complex trading, order management and execution requirements, design and implement solutions

* Successfully applied solutions to meet non-functional requirements such as stability, capacity, latency and throughput

* Hands-on experience of agile software development practices and methodologies, especially scrum

* Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and a desire to work as part of a global team

* TDD, BDD

* Source code management (Gitlab), Continuous Integration (Gitlab) and Artefact Management (Nexus)

Cloud Services Skills & Experience:

* Previous experience designing and hands on building Java based Big Data solutions on Azure Cloud platform essential

* CI/CD pipeline experience: Gitlab with hands on Terraform experience

* Security & Secrets Management (Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault)

* Logging & Monitoring (Log analytics, AppInsights, AppDynamics)

* Scheduling and File Transfers: Airflow, Apache NiFi, azcopy

* Security (Istio or Azure OSM, encryption)