As part of the application development IT team supporting Raymond James Bank, this Sr. Software Engineer will build high priority integration components into the core banking platform, Signature Domestic. In recent years, there has been increased focus at the Bank on automating manual business processes across applications. The vendor system, Signature Domestic, exposes APIs facilitating this integration. This role will learn to use various inputs into integrations, call enterprise webservices for supplemental data and interact with the proprietary banking API. As the integration components grow, so does the need for support, in addition to new build. This individual will be involved in the full SDLC and will be responsible for designing, coding, testing, implementing, maintaining and supporting application software. This role works closely with the IT Analysts on the team, but they also interact directly with business users during testing and production support. After sufficient business domain ramp-up time, this individual will become the primary point of contact on some of the applications; handles complex problems independently and demonstrates analytical thinking. This position will be based out of our corporate headquarters in Saint Petersburg, FL as a Hybrid workstyle.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities of this role will likely expand over time into other custom application development, but staying in the Java, possibly Angular, technology skillset and in the Banking business domain.
• Analyzes business requirements, provides technical solutions/recommendations, identifies tasks and corresponding estimates.
• Analyzes system requirements, including identifying program interactions and appropriate interfaces between impacted components and sub systems.
• Team collaboration is key for this role; follow guidance of Lead Engineers to maintain standards and design patterns, as well as provide guidance to others in areas of expertise, as needed.
• Makes recommendations towards the development of new code or to reuse of existing code.
• May recommend new technologies and methodologies to management for meeting business needs, resolving problems and exploiting opportunities. Remains current with new technologies.
• Participates in software system testing, deployments, validation procedures and technical documentation.
• Provides technical advice and assists in solving business problems.
• Writes and/or reviews system specifications, including output requirements and flow charts.
• Assists in preparing project plans by providing tasks and estimate of effort.
• Performs Developer Integration Testing; documents test results.
• Ensures proper analysis of problems and programming approaches to prevent rework and delays.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Skills and Abilities:

Expertise in:

• Java/J2EE
• Building and consuming JSON-based RESTful APIs
• IntelliJ as IDE
• Tools: Splunk, Postman, job scheduling tool BMC
• Angular 10 or onwards, HTML 5, CSS and Typescript is a nice to have

Skilled in:

• Working with TFS or JIRA, Dev Ops, Jenkins, GIT and JUnit
• Working in a modified Agile team environment
• Financial industry experience 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.

Licenses/Certifications:

• None required.

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