CGI - Java Architect

UI / Java /J2EE Architect

- Talented; versatile hands on Technical Payment Expert; devising and delivering cutting edge innovative payments solutions.

- Ideal candidate is a self - motivated individual with strong awareness of the payments industry trend; bank processing; payment security and payment transaction models.

- Business acumen; hands - on technology skills; positive work ethics and a collaborative mind set are key to the success for this role.

- The prospective candidate will require articulation; negotiation and influencing skills given the level of visibility.

- The person is expected to be a mentor and a peer with Thought leadership in designing future solutions and strategies for attaining them.

- This role will be a combination of business development; technology architecture; hands on technical support and client facing relationship management skills.

- This role require a deep working knowledge of payments and solution selling.

Required and Mandatory skills :

- Deep technical background essential to create performance efficient and maintainable design (Oracle & Java technology stack).

- Technical subject matter experts having extensive experience with commercial technologies such as Angular JS; JSON; Python; Robot Framework; Spring Framework; MDB`s.

- Experience with service management (Web Services; REST API; Messaging); development; integration; deployment.

- Product development experience in technical design and development.

- Strong technical troubleshooting skills including debugging code.

- Proficiency in Technical Analysis and including code reviews; test case reviews or deep dive into user flows with client.

- UML modelling skills; ideally in Sparx Enterprise Architect.

- Expertise in defining environment strategy and data migration strategy Strategies.

- High Availability and Disaster Recovery in multi - cloud environments

- Good knowledge on technical aspects of software products/projects (interfaces; connectivity; databases; Application servers; Middleware; Archive / Purge)

- Strong written/verbal communication skills and comfortable interacting with developers.

- Client facing skills with senior executives (client and internally)

- Solid understanding of architectural consideration such as high - volume; performance; security; scalability; reliability etc.

- Proven experience of in both real time transaction processing as well as non - real time asynchronous processing.

- Deep knowledge and passion around emerging payments technologies and their potential to change commerce.

- Experience in Software life cycle (SDLC) Payments knowledge and experience

- Experience in Payments related software development projects or products Working experience with at least two Clearing systems in different countries

- Working experience with product / project implementation in medium or large scale banks Beneficial: Basic Knowledge of SWIFT; NACHA

- Basic Knowledge in Clearing systems in Europe; Canada; US Site implementation experience of any popular payment products (Fundtech; Clear2Pay) Product technology roadmap activities and DevOps strategies Integration of medium to large scale projects within bank infrastructure Experience with Oracle Weblogic or IBM Websphere is desirable.

- Experience with Git; Docker; Kubernetes. Experience of working with Agile methodology.

- Very good Java/JavaEE fundamental concepts and design principles.

- 10-12+ years of Java / JavaEE coding on mission critical; high performance transaction systems

- Solid knowledge of Spring framework; Microservices; REST APIs; Messaging; Kafka

- Proficient in Java Messaging Service and EJB 3.0

- Strong java multi - threading and asynchronous programming concepts.

- Strong knowledge in java File I/O handling; JAXP; JAXB; JPA; Annotations

- Python/Robo Framework exposure