Senior Java Engineer, App Development

Job Description

This position will follow our hybrid work model, we expect the selected candidate to be in office 2-3 days a week(10-12 days a month ) at the following office location: St. Petersburg, FL.
Job Summary:
As part of the Private Client Group technology team, this Senior Software Engineer will build and maintain on premise applications. Being a Fortune 500 company; this position provides unparalleled job security, along with the opportunity to learn from experienced developers in a fun and encouraging environment. The core team is based out of our headquarters in St. Petersburg, FL (Hybrid).
The perfect candidate is goal & detail oriented and is a passionate developer who is eager to grow and learn. This candidate also exhibits excellent English written and oral communication skills allowing them to clearly convey information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message. 
 
Responsibilities:

• Support and build the technical solution for a scalable and highly available environment. 

• Design, Engineer and build networking, security, logging, monitoring and persistent storage.

• Proactively plan capacity monitoring and scaling of platforms and applications – analyzing technical areas for improvement.

• Participates in software system programming, validation, deployment, and documentation.

• Responsible for understanding deeply the end to end data requirements, application and service requirements and designing end to end solutions.

• Participate in the Agile or Waterfall development lifecycle, including daily stand-ups and biweekly sprint planning.

• Communicate across departments within the company and with business users to solve problems.

• Develop and use collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.

• Occasionally work a non-standard shift including nights and/or weekends and/or have on-call responsibilities.

• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Skills:

• Proficiency in Java programming

• Proficiency in Oracle SQL

• Java, J2EE development with working knowledge of Spring and ORM (Hibernate preferred), Spring Boot, cache implementations.

• Experience with Monitoring / APM tools (Datadog, Dynatrace, etc.), and logging tools such as Splunk.

• Good knowledge of DevOps & collaboration tools: Jenkins, GIT, TFS, Sonar. 

• Ability to:

• Identify and understand issues, problems and opportunities; compare data from different sources to draw conclusions.

• Clearly convey information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.

• Use effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; recommend or take action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probable consequences.

• Demonstrate a satisfactory level of technical and professional skills or knowledge in position-related areas; remains current with developments and trends in areas of expertise.

• Develop and use collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.

• Make internal and external clients and their needs a primary focus of action; develop and sustain productive client relationships.

• Occasionally work a non-standard shift including nights and/or weekends and/or have on-call responsibilities.

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Workstyle

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view. 
We expect our associates at all levels to:
•  Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same
•  Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes
•  Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind
•  Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter
•  Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm

At Raymond James – as part of our people-first culture, we honor, value, and respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates.  When associates bring their best authentic selves, our organization, clients, and communities thrive. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.