Software Engineer

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My Client who are based in Manchester are looking for a Software Engineer for a 6 month contract with the potential to extend.

This role will be part of the team responsible for the developing / engineering (architecture, design, build, script, document and test) bank wide Middleware solutions and facilitate their handover to the production Middleware RTB functions.

This role is to be a Middleware engineer / developer responsible for the creation and enhancement of strategic platforms and integrated components to support Middleware Services and PaaS (Platform as a Service).

Own and drive delivery of automation and orchestration solutions to support the provisioning of Middleware Services and instances of middleware technologies.

Facilitate the governance of all Middleware engineered solutions and products. This includes all aspects of project delivery, security, compliance and audit governance requirements

The role provides exposure to leading edge software technology and underlying platforms operating mission critical services for the group.

Key Accountabilities

* Responsibility for technical review and agreement of Middleware Product requirements

and feasibility.

* Work as part of the "Agile" team on estimating and managing progress of all required work tasks.

* Comprehensive and clear documentation of Middleware Product deliverables including consumer-related

documentation

* Responsible for the technical implementation and delivery of new Middleware Product features

* Responsible for the design, documentation, coding, testing and promotion of Middleware Product

deliverables

* Responsible for the support and training of users in Middleware Product offerings over multiple channels

(chat, web presentation, email etc)

* To maintain an interest and knowledge of new innovations in Middleware technologies

* Adherence with Middleware standards builds.

* Providing 4th 3rd line support of Middleware Product engineered solutions

Stakeholder Management and Leadership

* Work with Product owners, Service owners, stakeholders and customers to understand, document and prioritise requirements

* Work with Technical Lead to produce product designs and to deliver high quality applications

* Ownership of product related tasks and bugs in JIRA - own, track and drive deliverables through SCRUM

* Escalate Product Risks and Issues to Product Owners

* Work with teams / SME's across Infrastructure Service to ensure delivery of Middleware solutions

Decision-making and Problem Solving

* Ability to understand and influence high level solution design and low level Middleware component designs.

* Ability to track and enforce adherence to Middleware product standards and acceptance criteria.

* Understanding of the full project lifecycle and key quality gates with emphasis on validation and live implementation phases.

* Analytical ability covering root cause identification, eradication and pro-active service and process improvement.

Preferred development skills:

* CHEF experience

*Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

*Application hosting technologies - WAS, tomcat,Apache, JBOSS.

*Messaging technologies - ,

* Red Hat OpenShift v2 & v3

* Docker experience

* Kubernetes experience

* PaaS design and DevOps automation experience

* Javascript / JSON / AJAX / jQuery development skills

* Ruby development skills

* JAVA development skills

* Perl scripting

* Go language development skills

* Experience working with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery

* Cloud technologies, especially AWS

* Agile project management methodology, especially Scrum

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