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Sr. Streaming Engineer

Ness Digital Engineering · Chicago, IL, USA ·

Job type:
Full Time

Job Profile
Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Java

Summary
This role supports and works collaboratively with business analysts, team leads and development team. A contributor in developing scalable and resilient hybrid and cloud-based data solutions supporting critical financial market clearing and risk activities; collaborate with other developers, architects and product owners to support enterprise transformation into a data‑driven organization. The Specialist, Application Developer will be a team player and work well with business, technical and non‑technical professionals in a project environment.

Responsibilities

Support the application development of big data applications for business requirements in agreed architecture framework and Agile environment

Thoroughly analyse requirements, develop, test, and document software quality to ensure proper implementation

Follow agreed upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meet: both explicit and implicit quality standards, end‑user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, security rules are upheld, and external facing reporting is properly represented

Perform application and project risk analysis and recommend quality improvements

Assist Production Support by providing advice on system functionality and fixes as required

Communicate in a clear and concise manner all time delays or defects in the software immediately to appropriate team members and management

Experience with resolving security vulnerabilities

Supervisory Responsibilities
None

Qualifications & Experience

Required 5+ years of experience in building high speed, data‑centric solutions

Required Java 5+ years experience

Required experience with high speed distributed computing frameworks like FLINK, Apache Spark, Kafka Streams, etc

Required experience with distributed message brokers Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc.

Required experience with cloud technologies and migrations. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc

Required experience developing and delivering technical solutions using public cloud service providers like Amazon, Google

Required experience writing unit and integration tests with testing frameworks like Junit, Citrus

Required experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object‑based, Graph

Required experience following Git workflows

Required working knowledge of DevOps tools e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc

Required familiarity with monitoring tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics

Technical Skills & Background

Required Java‑based software development experience

Required fluent in object‑oriented design, industry best practices, software patterns, and architecture principles

Required strong testing experience which includes developing test plans, automated test cases, and working with test frameworks

Required deep understanding of performance issues and multi‑threaded development

Required experience working with two or more of the following: web/mobile application development, Unix/Linux environments, event‑driven systems, transaction processing systems, distributed and parallel systems, large software system development, security software development, public‑cloud platforms

Required hands‑on experience with Java version 8 onwards, Spring, SpringBoot, Microservices, REST API

Certifications

Preferred OCP Java SE 8 Programmer Certification

Preferred AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level

Education & Training
Required BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field required

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