The Senior Developer, Microservices is a core member of the claims and commercial technology team who is responsible for delivering integration solutions and architectural enhancements. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining source code to design specifications, standards, and user requirements with necessary unit and system testing. With a view to building high quality application solutions, they question legacy design patterns and propose architectural changes aligned with current industry best-practices. Using an Agile mindset, they deliver solutions iteratively, ensuring business benefit is achieved in alignment with Enterprise API Strategy.
What can you expect in this role?
Solution Design & Code Development
- Design and develop microservices/API using Java/Springboot supplemented by automated and manual unit testing
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and both, internal and external clients, to understand the operational objective and purpose of the future system integration
- Collaborate with QE to define testing requirements, automate functional/API contract testing, support regression and performance testing of any integration solution
- Understand the integration points between the different systems and highlight the potential risk associated with the delivery of the solution
- Define detailed technical specifications in co-ordination with peer Business System Analysts
- Proactively identify technical debt and seek ways to enhance overall code performance recommending necessary refactoring needed to achieve target-state-architecture
Deployment, Maintenance & Support of Technology Solutions
- Develop technical designs that support proactive monitoring and maintenance
- Apply coding best practices and leverage custom Enterprise build and deployment framework
- Support Technical Delivery Manager in the identification of enterprise development environment risks and assist in the creation and configuration of environments as needed, to meet the requirements of the solution
- Verify solution documentation is complete, accurate, auditable, and traceable to business and/or system requirements
Agile Enterprise SDLC
- Collaborate with the Technical Delivery Manager (Scrum Master) and team to deliver on committed Sprint goals
- Collaborate with a peer Business System Analyst to develop the prioritized backlog support discovery associated with the same
- Collaborate with Release Management to align initiative delivery with the Enterprise Release cadence
What do you bring to the role?
- University Degree or college diploma in computer science, information systems or a related discipline
- 8+ years of hands-on experience designing and developing microservices using Java/Springboot
- Practical understanding of enterprise/web architecture using REST
- Relevant experience working with docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes
- Relevant experience working with AWS and/or GCP
- Relevant experience working with data streaming technologies like Kafka
- 4+ years of experience with system integration
- 4+ years relevant experience with API concepts and technologies such as REST, JSON, XML, SOAP, YAML, Swagger/OpenAPI Spec
- 4+ years of software / application design and development experience in an Agile environment with understanding of Atlassian suite (JIRA, Confluence, etc.)
- Proficient understanding of code versing tools such as Git
- Experience with Data modeling is an asset
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