Java Developer

Societe Generale Global Solution Centre (SG GSC) acts as a business solutions center for Société Générale, one of the largest European financial groups. We provide high quality professional services in over 35 countries in various business areas - Finance & Accounting, HR, IT and Corporate Operations. Our mission is to be a partner of choice, valued for owning, transforming and innovating with best-in-class talent. IT Filiere is part of the Centre and comprises four Perimeters: Retail Banking, Security and Infrastructure, Internal Support Applications and Investment Banking,  with a total of more than 800 IT professionals.

Project Description:

RTParam (for Real Time Parameters) is an application that provides real time market data (volatilities, dividends, repo) to all MARK (equity) traders at GBIS. It is heavily used by pricing and real time risk analysis applications.

It’s a technical application with key performance targets in mind (processes > 10 million events each day, latency of < 40 milliseconds for each event, 24/5 availability). It’s deployed in the main financial places around the world (New York, Paris, Hong Kong).

Specifically, you will be required to:

·        Assist with the translation of business requirements into technical ones

·        Show technical expertise and handle development/testing tasks

·        Follow up functional testing with end users

·        Liaises with Infrastructure/middleware teams to ensure proper application configurations and hardware performance efficiencies

·        Employs industry standard best practices

·        Provides level 3 support during local business hours

·        Involved with the review and submission of solutions designs globally.

·        You have excellent understanding of Java SE and multithreading

·        Knowledge of distributed architecture and caching mechanisms

·        Knowledge of middleware principles (RabbitMQ; TibcoRV & gRPC nice to have) and asynchronous communication)

·        Knowledge of NoSQL database principles (e.g. Cassandra, Elasticsearch) would be appreciated

·        Knowledge of some core development tools used within the company: Kibana, Maven, Jenkins, Git/SVN, Sonar and Deploy IT (nice to have)

·        You have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

We also value:

·        Responsible attitude, strong autonomy and ambition in achieving your mission

·        Excellent analytical skills and self-starter with ability to take ownership of tasks and assignments

·        Good command of English, both written and spoken.

SG GSC is a Great Place to Work® certified company. Here, you will find a flexible workplace and culture, autonomy, constant learning opportunities, dynamism, and talented people, making this experience a real career accelerator. You will also discover all the diversity of our businesses, in a sector that is constantly evolving and innovating.

Plus, you will enjoy all our benefits:

• competitive compensation & remuneration, including annual performance bonus; 
• preventive healthcare plan, and group health & life insurance; 
• wide range of flexible benefits within a monthly budget; 
• office perks, wellbeing and mental health programs; 
• various social benefits and bonuses for personal or family events;
• 9-to-5 workday & flexible (hybrid) work environment;
• additional paid and unpaid time off, including Sabbatical leave; 
• learning and growth opportunities based on individual development and career plans; 
• unlimited access to various eLearning resources.

We are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious. Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years, or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating, and taking action are part of our DNA. If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful daily and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!

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We are committed to support accelerating our Group’s ESG strategy by implementing ESG principles in all our activities and policies. They are translated in our business activity (ESG assessment, reporting, project management or IT activities), our work environment and in our responsible practices for environment protection.

 We are an equal opportunities employer, and we are proud to make diversity a strength for our company. Societe Generale is committed to recognizing and promoting all talents, regardless of their beliefs, age, disability, parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, sexual or gender identity, sexual orientation, membership of a political, religious, trade union or minority organisation, or any other characteristic that could be subject to discrimination.