Java Developer

Salary: £55,000 - 95,000 per year

Requirements

• Excellent core Java 1.8, Spring, Spring Boot, Quartz, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, functional programming (Erlang), Oracle and DB2 databases, WebSphere and Tomcat servers.
• Excellent and proven experience of Oracle SQL and PL/SQL.
• Strong knowledge and experience of XML, XSL, and XSLT.
• Experience supporting large and complex applications within high-availability, high-volume environments.
• Ability to work individually or within a team to meet internal and external SLAs.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent skills supporting Java technologies such as Tomcat.
• Excellent knowledge of protocols such as REST, AMQP, and JMS.
• Understanding of failover and disaster recovery.
• Proven software development experience.
• Good understanding of infrastructure, F5, and networking.
• Knowledge of ISO20022, ISO8583, and Swift MT formats.
• Experience in shell scripting and Python.
• Experience within payments processing systems or the finance/banking industry.
• Experience supporting applications using different languages and/or character sets.
• Experience working within process-driven environments, such as ITIL.
• Interest in analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience working with DevOps teams and industry-standard CI/CD tools like Git/BitBucket, Jenkins, Maven, and Artifactory.

Responsibilities

• Support on-call activities by improving operations maturity to reduce on-call demand.
• Provide technical support on live clearing and settlement applications.
• Provide 3rd line technical support to international customers for the VocaLink IPS and MPP products.
• Identify, develop, and implement workarounds and/or fixes for deployment into live environments.
• Support implementation and deployment of new releases into live environments.
• Provide 24/7/365 technical support cover as part of an on-call/shift rota.
• Work closely with development to integrate new releases into live environments.
• Provide and lead 3rd line technical support to internal and external parties.
• Interface closely with the development department to ensure bi-directional flow of technical and operational knowledge.
• Follow internal and external support procedures.
• Recover service by providing a workaround or root cause fix within SLA.
• Lead major incident recovery and post-incident review.
• Troubleshoot application problems with customers, development, and test teams where required.

Technologies

• BitBucket
• CI/CD
• DevOps
• Erlang
• Flow
• Git
• IBM
• Support
• ITIL
• Java
• Jenkins
• Maven
• Oracle
• Python
• REST
• RabbitMQ
• SQL
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• Swift
• Tomcat
• Websphere
• XML
• Office 365

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We are a technical team supporting live clearing and settlement applications. In this operational role, you will help improve operations maturity and reduce on-call demand while supporting international customers and live releases for the VocaLink IPS and MPP products. The role includes participation in a 24/7/365 on-call and shift rota.

last updated 36 week of 2026