About TSR:

TSR is a relationship-based, customer-focused IT and technical services staffing company.

For over 40 years TSR, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, TSR Consulting Services, have prospered in the Information Technology staffing business, earning the respect of companies both large and small with well refined candidate screening, timely placement, and a real understanding of the right skill sets required by our clients.

Mission & Vision

We do not believe in building a vision around the company but building a company around our vision, which is simply;

Every employee's voice matters, their effort is appreciated, and their talent is rewarded.

We challenge each employee daily, to raise the bar on how we treat our consultants and candidates. For far too long in this industry, candidates have been ghosted, lied to, or placed at a client and then forgotten about. Each day our staff works tirelessly at qualifying and placing, top talent with our clients, in a compassionate and caring manner.

Not every candidate is a match for the job, but every candidate and consultant will be treated with respect and professionalism.

Senior Java Developer

Job Description

• Location: Tampa, Florida
• Type: Contract
• Job #79393

Our client, a leading financial services company is hiring a Senior Java Developer on a long-term contract basis.
Job ID 79393

Work Location:
Tampa, FL
Summary:
Senior Java developer responsible for building out the firm's strategic reference data platforms. The successful applicant will take ownership of key projects and components and will be responsible for all phases of the SDLC including analysis and design, development, testing and deployment. As a senior developer, the candidate will be responsible for providing technical guidance to junior developers, including overseeing their deliverables, providing architectural guidance, enforcing best practices, and conduct code reviews. A potential candidate will need to understand system and enterprise architecture concepts and will be expected to understand how all components fit together and impact one another. They will work with a global and diverse team of peers as well as liaise closely with Business Analyst, Production Support, and Infrastructure teams.
Responsibilities:

• Deliver assigned development projects within agreed schedule, quality and scope expectations.
• Participate in all stages of the SDLC within an Agile Scrum environment.
• Form partnership with technology vendors and gain deep understanding of products.
• Interact with senior management to define and drive architectural direction.
• Interact with PMO and translate reported problems/issues into JIRA items to implement.
• Enhance/Re-architect existing components to satisfy new requirements in terms of performance and scalability.
• Provide level 3 (escalation) support for the application.

Required Skills:

• Experience with the following technologies:
  • Java (Core, JDBC, MT, Collections, I/O), Spring Boot
  • Strong understanding of SQL/PL-SQL on Oracle DB
  • Tomcat or WebLogic application server, container platform based on Kubernetes
  • REST web services, Kafka, Redis
  • Unix commands and Korn shell scripting.
  • Familiarity with standard data structures and algorithms.
  • Experience using the following - JIRA, uDeploy, SonarQube, TeamCity, Artifactory, Git (BitBucket).
• Logical thinking, strong analytical and problem-solving skills; innovative and solutions oriented.
• Effective time management skills to manage multiple priorities with flexibility on time zones and timelines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• A minimum of 8 years application development experience.
• Experience working with the Scrum methodology is preferred.
• Experience working with a NoSQL database, preferably MongoDB, is an advantage.
• Exposure to functional programming language like Scala is a plus.
• Experience designing and implementing microservices is a plus.
• Financial services technology experience preferably in reference data domain.
• Physical and logical data modeling is a plus.

Education:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience