Sr Java Architect

About the Role

Our team supports the Bank’s CCAR/DFAST Regulatory submission and compliance with the FED/OCC. CCAR is an annual Stress testing (financial forecasting) exercise required by the banks in order to ensure compliance and to carry out their planned capital actions (Share repurchases, Dividend policies etc.).

We have an annual project/budget around both CCAR Execution (mid-December kickoff to April Submission) followed up by a period where we focus primarily on the enhancements to the CCAR process for the upcoming year’s submission based on our finance owner’s feedback and priorities or if there is new reporting requirements delivered by the FED/OCC we have to build out the platform to address.

This position would be a replacement for one of our web developers, but they perform a variety of support functions across the app. Team is positioned around the Pittsburgh Hub (has been remote but for going forward will be our center).

Responsibilities

• Get up to speed with the App BAU vulnerabilities
• Once submission happens in April will switch to more project work
• Newly building items

Technical Skills

• Prior experience in JavaScript Frameworks (preferably Angular JS)
• Expert in designing/developing J2EE based web-applications (JSP, Servlets, JSF, XSLT, XML)
• Prior (hands-on) experience Architecting J2EE & Core Java based applications.
• Expert in Design and development of REST services including authorization and metering.
• Expert in designing/developing Java backend for web-applications (Spring Boot, Spock, Groovy, Mockito, TestNG etc...)
• Prior experience in JavaScript/UI Frameworks (preferably React, Ag-Grid, Axios, Material UI etc...)
• Prior experience in Build & Integration
• Tools required: Gradle, Jenkins Pipeline, Docker(>-=JDK 17), GitHub
• Deployment experience to Open Shift Platform (Kubernetes), exposure to Helm Charts required
• Prior experience in Relational databases (Oracle, Teradata etc..)

Flexible Skills

• Prior experience in designing/developing Java/J2EE based web-applications (JSP, Servlets, JSF, XSLT, XML)
• Prior experience in developing Python backends (with FastApi, Flask)
• Prior experience (10-15 years total experience with at least 3-4 years of specific experience in the below items) in
• Prior experience in Developing Single Page Web Apps (SPA)
• Prior experience in NOSQL databases (Cassandra, Mongo etc..)

Nice to Have

• Design and development of high-performance web scale systems including non-blocking designs and distributed caching.
• Cloud infrastructure design and management
• Design and implementation of automation and repeatable testing infrastructure.

About the Role

The manager is in need for a senior level developer to join the team to work on a capital project that will eventually lead into BAU work. The candidate will be responsible for developing Java based web applications.

Soft Skills

• Great communication

Role Differentiator

Small team which provides the opportunity to develop as well as potential for a long term role.

Interview Process

Potential for 3 interviews: Hiring manager, lead developer, team lead