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Raymond James Financial, Inc. Senior Java Engineer, Backend Developer in St. Petersburg, Florida

Description

Workstyle - This position will follow our hybrid work model, we expect the selected candidate to be in office 2-3 days a week at our office location: St. Petersburg, FL

Job Summary:

As part of the Wealth Management technology team, this Senior Java Software Engineer will build and maintain numerous APIs, micro-services to support an application that is critical to the day to day functioning of the financial advisor. The application surfaces rich statistics about a client’s account. 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.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Write clean and maintainable code.

  • Debug, improve and maintain existing code.

  • Participate in the Agile 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.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Knowledge of

  • Understanding of the SDLC lifecycle for Agile & Waterfall methodologies.

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

  • Experience with deconstructing complex problems into modular simple solutions.

  • Strong understanding and discipline around software test approaches.

  • Strong sense of dedication and teamwork toward a goal.

Skill in:

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

  • Spring Boot and experience with database queries in PL/SQL, Functions in Oracle.

  • Experience in Reporting frameworks such as Jasper is nice to have.

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 skill 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 actions; develop and sustain productive client relationships.

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

Education/Previous Experience:

  • Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Business or related degree and three (3) to five (5) years of relevant experience or a combination of education, training and experience approved by HR.

  • Experience in Financial Services Industry is nice to have.

Licenses/Certifications:

  • None required.

Job: Technology

Primary Location: US-FL-St. Petersburg-Saint Petersburg

Other Locations: US-FL-Clearwater-Clearwater, US-FL-Tampa-Tampa, US-FL-St. Petersburg-Saint Petersburg

Organization Technology

Schedule Full-time

Job Shift Day Job

Travel Yes, 5 % of the Time

Req ID: 2403115

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