Java Developer (Spring Boot, CI/CD)

For our client in Amsterdam, we are looking for a Java Developer (Spring Boot, CI/CD).

A leading financial institution is looking for an experienced Java DEV Engineer with a focus on design/development skills who would like to work in a challenging environment with a lot of change. You are technically passionate, have an Agile mindset and have a background as Dev Engineer within a Financial Institution or Data Reporting environment. You are a team player working with end-to-end responsibility.

The Financial Markets Transaction Reporting family is charged with the oversight and steering of the organisation's trade and transaction reporting to ensure that the reporting is complete, accurate and timely. It is a dynamic, multi-faceted environment that partners with all parts of the firm to deliver regulatory transaction reporting capabilities while providing risk management and control to ensure global compliance with relevant regulations such as MiFID, EMIR, and more. Due to the increasing importance of Regulatory (Transaction) Reporting, this family is growing and will work on a new Reporting Platform to replace the existing applications over time.

Key activities

Maintain and develop Java-based micro-service applications

Align requirements/implementation of code changes with Customer Journey Experts and Testers

Upgrade used frameworks and analyze/solve vulnerability findings in code

Improve automation (CI/CD, observability)

Analyze/solve findings from testing or from the actual Production environment

Willing to join shift for outside-office-hours standby support

Key Competencies – Behaviours

Technical leadership skills and ability to coach less experienced engineers

Openness and willingness to try new ways of working and technologies

Results-oriented, determined, team-player with a self-driven, can-do attitude

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

End-to-end ownership mindset

Active team player who takes responsibility

Independent and autonomous in completing tasks

Continuous improvement mentality (service and way of working)

Reflects on behaviour and performance to proactively identify improvement areas

Strong problem solver to structure and improve complex situations

Excellent communication skills, verbally and in writing, to align with various stakeholders and cross-border squads (English is the main language)

Market focus: combines market knowledge to formulate the right approach, follows progression in own technical discipline, stays informed on market developments and innovation

Ability to deliver on-call support (shift based)



Minimum Qualifications

Experience in Java (21+) and Spring Boot (4.*)

Expertise in Oracle database (SQL) development

DevOps knowledge good to have: CI/CD concepts, Azure DevOps preferred

Good understanding of test automation with JUnit & BDD concepts

Experience using Kafka as a core messaging technology

Knowledge of IBM MQ and Tibco EMS is a plus

Knowledge of services running on a Container Platform like Kubernetes, OpenShift

Proven track record in a data environment regarding data quality, data flows, data consistency, and data lineage

Experience in the banking industry, preferably Financial Markets Transaction Reporting

3 main qualities

Experienced Java Developer, Spring Boot

Developer in a complex (enterprise banking) environment

Experience with Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Soft quality

Excellent communication skills. Dutch not required, main language is English. Minimum HBO work/thinking level.