Java Xpress Developer Full-time Job

The Role:

 

The Retail Lending Technologies team supports the enhancement, development, and maintenance of corporate applications and banking systems within Canadian Banking. Retail Lending systems are Critical Information Assets of the bank that support Automotive Lending, Branch Direct Lending and Credit Insurance products and Business Lines. As a member of a full stack team, duties performed will include implementation and operational support.

 

The applicant should possess excellent problem-solving skills, who can technically troubleshoot issues/problems independently and provide solutions. The applicant must possess the ability to work with technology focused peers, Business Clients, and Operations Teams on multiple projects concurrently. For this role the candidate should ideally have worked on agile and waterfall projects in the past and be capable of thriving in a fast paced, challenging work environment and demonstrate initiative and eagerness to learn.

 

Is this role right for you?

 

• You will provide system analysis, object oriented design / programming, technical documentation, and support for existing applications and systems.
• You will provide recommendations on best practices and enhancements that are in line with the bank’s technology road map.
• You will work with project team to refine technical requirements and provide technical design and guidance based on industry best practices.
• You will perform coding, unit testing, debugging, documenting and implementing of applications and scripts.
• You will participate in estimation and planning of development efforts required for various projects and enhancements.
• You will maintain, support and enhance existing applications.
• You will participate in regular code reviews for release activities.
• You will lead the implementation efforts for implementations of code to production.
• You will participate in production issue analysis and perform root cause analysis for production issues and implementation issues.
• You will assist the product owners and business analysts in discovering the current system behavior and provide recommendations on improving the current system.

 

 Do you have the knowledge & skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?

 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline.
• You have at least 5 years of technical working experience in systems analysis, design, development, unit testing, and debugging.
• You have working experience in the use of Bit Bucket, GIT, Gradle, Jira, Confluence or a similar tool(s) for building Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Technical working experience in an agile environment.
• Must have technical working experience with Core Java (Version 8 or higher)/Java Servlet/JDBC/JavaScript; Spring Boot (Spring MVC, Spring Security and Spring Data Repositories),  HTML; CSS;  jQuery, Bootstrap, AngularJS, UNIX shell scripting; SQL & relational databases.
• Ideally, you have 2-3 years of working experience in the banking/financial services industry.
• Technical knowledge of XML, XSD, Apache ANT (or similar)
• Technical knowledge of Xpress, FIS Workbench
• Technical working knowledge of WebServices, XML/SOAP/REST, IBM Websphere Application Server (WAS); Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE); IBM Rational Application Developer (RAD); soapUI; WinSCP (Windows Secure Copy); PuTTY SCP (PSCP); Secure Shell (SSH)
• Technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure Cloud or Google Cloud is an asset.
• Technical knowledge of Splunk, Dynatrace, or Stackdriver is an asset.
• Technical knowledge of iWay SM/DM is an asset.

 

What's in it for you?

 

• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity and curiosity and celebrates success
• We provide you with the tools and technology needed to create meaningful customer experiences
• You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world
• We hire you for your talent — not just a job — so you can grow with us. We’ll equip you for success not only in your role, but also in your career as a whole
• Dress codes don't apply here: being comfortable does
• Access to thousands of online and in-person courses so you can hone your current skills, or learn new ones
• A competitive rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs on pension and profit sharing, paid vacation, personal & sick days, medical, vision, and dental and much more

Scotiabank is one of North America's leading financial institutions, and Canada's most international bank. We provide innovative financial products and services to individuals, small and medium-size businesses, corporations and governments across Canada and around the world.