Job Description

OVERALL SUMMARY
At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don't tick every box. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and are open to discuss flexible work options to help you balance your work and home life.
Join the Close Brothers Technology Team where you will lead high profile, high complexity technology deliveries and provide polyglot solutions that follow industry best practices using the latest technologies. Working as part of the Technology team our ideal team member will have previous experience in bringing in new ideas and elegant solutions that deliver against both business and technology strategies with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ability work as an integral member of a scrum team in the implementation of software development efforts, including design, coding, configuration, maintenance, installation, testing and debugging, as well as producing technical documentation.
• Work closely with business teams to maintain the Invoice Finance suite implemented as an in-house developed platform. Developing custom solutions to extend the suite's functionality.
• Collaborate with corporate Enterprise Architecture teams to create technical plans and strategies.
• Specifies and designs large or complex software applications, components and modules.
• Adopts and adapts software design methods, tools and techniques. Undertakes impact analysis on major design options, makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks. Specifies prototypes/simulations to enable informed decision-making.
• Evaluates software designs to ensure adherence to standards and identifies corrective action. Ensures that the software design balances functional, quality, security and systems management requirements.
• Ensure that all governance and compliance requirements are adhered to and all reporting and reviewing activities required by the regulatory bodies are carried out to the standards required.

WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF HAVE/ARE:

• Knowledge of Java: Functional Java, Spring, Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate.
• Knowledge of relational databases: SQL, Stored Procedures, (preferably on SAP/Sybase Adaptive Server or MS SQL Server).
• Comfortable writing and analysing complex SQL queries.
• Experience of service-oriented architectures. APIs (REST, RPC)
• Experience in TDD / BDD.
• Iterative development with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
• Familiarity with Git.
• Experience with use of DevOps practices and pipelines.

IT IS NOT ESSENTIAL BUT IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU HAVE:

• Java Server Faces (JSF) / Primefaces experience
• Event-driven architectures, DDD, CQRS, Distributed systems experience.
• Understanding of cloud services.

We are an inclusive organisation and committed to ensuring our recruitment process is as accessible as possible to everyone. We will make adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format or would like to discuss the recruitment process with us, please email us at or request a call back.
ABOUT US
At Close Brothers we support employees to balance their work life priorities and in this role you will be able to enjoy a mixture of hybrid working.
Close Brothers is a leading UK merchant banking group providing lending, deposit taking and securities trading. We employ approximately 3,000 people, principally in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Close Brothers Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250.
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At Close Brothers Group, we are all connected by our mission to be the best place in the UK for wealth professionals and their clients.
We believe that everyone should think ahead, have a financial plan and invest wisely. Our clients are professionals, business owners, individuals, charities, families, and employers, who rely on our clear financial advice and investment management services to preserve and grow their long-term savings and investments.
We are a team of about 900 people based in 15 offices across the UK. Our geographic footprint means we can combine a local approach with face-to-face services to enable strong, long-term relationships with our clients.
Sustainability is fundamental to our purpose and we have a responsibility to help address the social, economic and environmental challenges facing our business, colleagues and clients. We strive to do the right thing and are dedicated to helping the charities that matter most to our people.
Our vision is to develop an open and inclusive company that ensures everyone is valued, respected and included, so that in years to come our business will represent a diverse and inclusive workforce from the top down.
We look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds. If this job is of interest to you but you do not meet every criteria then we encourage you still to apply as we are open to providing training opportunities. As an early adopter of hybrid working we are open to discussing all types of flexible working options, helping you to balance your work and home life.