Application Programmer V

Our client, one of the largest banks in the US with wealth management, investment banking, and international business, is seeking an Application Programmer VLocation: Pennington, NJPosition Type: IT-ContractJob Summary:Contribute to story refinement/defining requirements. Support enterprise level SDLC tools. This includes tools such as Cloud bees Jenkins, Redhat Ansible, RedHat OpenShift, Xebia XLR and SonarQube.Participate and guide team in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle. Perform spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas.Code solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements.Job Responsibilities: This role is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the role include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements. This role ensures solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. These individuals possess strong proficiency in development and testing practices common to the industry and have extensive experience of using design and architectural patterns. Utilize multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements. Assist team with resolving technical complexities involved in realizing story work. Design/develop/modify architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained. Design/develop/maintain automated test suites (integration, regression, performance). Set up and develop a continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline. Automate manual release activities. Mentor other Software Engineers and coach team on CI-CD practices and automating tool stack.Required Skills: Solution Design - Has demonstrated the ability to design and develop significant components within an application; has performed code reviews. Test Engineering - Proficient in designing, developing, and executing test cases. Knowledge of Test Automation and tools. DevOps and Release Automation - Ability to perform or support continuous integration and deployment activities within their role. Understanding and appreciation for DevOps culture. Application & Data Architecture - Possesses an understanding of architecture and bank standards. Participates in or supports delivery of architecture designs and implementations Influences Decisions - Presents their own point of view with a clear rationale, facts and figures. Clearly displays how their proposed solution or course of action is superior to other options by using facts/evidence to support it. Achieves Sustainable Results - Tracks the effectiveness of solutions through KPI''s. Incorporates technical and financial factors when comparing different approaches to solutions.Desired Skills: Solution Delivery Process - Understands all roles and responsibilities within their team and uses the tool sets within the software lifecycle. Governance & Stakeholder Management - Contributes to artifacts needed for governance forums; Understands stakeholder expectations and creates regular updates to keep stakeholders informed. Business Products & Strategy - Working knowledge of products, services, business flows and understanding of financial context in which technology and operating principles are used within their business area. Risk Management - Understands risks and can apply the controls necessary to mitigate. Knows when to escalate risks. Financials & Resource Management - Basic understanding of financial data and the impact that their role has within a team. Planning, Execution & Process - Facilitates team planning ceremonies against backlog/prioritized work. Manages risk/dependencies/impediments for one team. Ability to answer teams Agile/waterfall framework questions Analytical Thinking - Demonstrates ability to identify root causes to solve complex problems in highly unstable situations. Promotes Collaboration - Collaborates with own team and across teams. Asks questions to obtain views from others.

Created: 2025-10-04