Principal Architect - Java/J2EE - BFS Domain

Aims/Objective :

- Build the platform for growth that will sustain us as a leading global banking and financial markets business.

- Provide robust applications and services that are stable in the face of increased change and growth while continuously improving the quality and appropriateness of those services.

- Build the capabilities we need in the future organization by attracting and retaining the right people, and maintaining motivation and commitment through integration.

- Demonstrate commercial acumen in financial management of Natwest Markets support functions while constantly striving to create value for the business.

- Embed our Values in everything we do.

Foundry is a cross asset risk storage and aggregation engine used by Front Office, Finance and Market Risk for EOD and INTRA day risk viewing and aggregation, and for regulatory reporting.

Additionally Foundry is/will be used for:

- Hedging risk, checking EOD and INTRA day PNL, and identify cases of rogue trading.

- Regulatory checks for Independent Price Verification and Prudential Valuation.

- FRTB and RDAR Reporting

- Finance IPV, Pruval and PNL attribution storage and regulatory compliance

Your Responsibilities

As a Principal Architect, your key responsibilities will include:

- Provide technical leadership in the area of work

- Design and develop high quality, scalable and maintainable code using java/j2ee/scala for distributed systems

- Must have worked on a big data estate and has working knowledge of Hadoop ecosystem or Apache Spark

- Understanding the functional requirements and breaking them into technical deliverables

- Collaborating with globally distributed teams in India, London and Bulgaria

- Mentor other junior developers on the team

The Skills you will need

In order to be successful in this role, you must have the following skills & experience:

- 14+ years of IT development experience in Java/J2EE and/or Scala

- Experience on Java, spring, hibernate, concurrent programming, maven, unix shell scripting

- Must have worked on a big data estate and has knowledge of Hadoop ecosystem or Apache Spark

- Expertise in building large scale distributed systems, working closely with the global stakeholders

- Strong communication and influencing skills

- Preferably experience working in captive or product development working with global teams

- Prior experience building solutions for investment banking, or financial domain will be an added advantage.