Associate Java Developer
Posted 1 day ago by Insight Global
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary: Insight Global is looking for a mid-level Java Developer to join a financial services client in Birmingham, UK. The role involves evaluating, migrating, and potentially decommissioning existing services, with a focus on understanding service flows and collaborating with technical teams. The developer will enhance existing codebases and engage in light production support while ensuring effective communication with stakeholders. Strong ownership and end-to-end service responsibility are essential for success in this position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Evaluate, migrate, and potentially decommission approximately 60 existing services.
- Investigate and understand the flow of services, particularly from the deposit side.
- Collaborate with technical counterparts to design migration or sunset plans.
- Implement migration or sunset plans while enhancing and updating existing codebases.
- Engage in light production support, including reviewing and investigating logs.
- Coordinate with both technical and business teams to identify application usage.
Key Skills:
- Proven expertise in Java development.
- Strong experience with Kafka in Java and Microservices architecture using Spring Framework.
- Familiarity with log investigation and production support tasks.
- Ability to read, write, and enhance existing codebases.
- Experience in the end-to-end development lifecycle.
- Comfortable collaborating with other teams and driving deliverables to completion.
- MongoDB integration experience is a plus.
- Experience with cloud platforms, especially AWS, is a plus.
- Background in service demise and platform migration strategies is a plus.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Insight Global is seeking a mid-level Java Developer for one of their premier financial services clients in Birmingham, UK. As a Java Developer on this team, you will play a crucial role in a strategic project involving the evaluation, migration, and potential decommissioning of approximately 60 existing services inherited from a separate division. These services need to be assessed to determine whether they should be maintained, enhanced, rebuilt, or retired. Your primary focus will be investigating and understanding the flow of services—particularly from the deposit side—collaborating with tech counterparts to design migration or sunset plans, and then implementing those plans. You will work hands-on with existing codebases, enhancing and updating as needed, rather than building applications from scratch or doing heavy architectural work. Success in this role requires strong ownership of tasks, excellent communication skills, and the ability to follow through on end-to-end service responsibilities. You will also work closely with stakeholders to identify application usage, engage in light production support (such as reviewing and investigating logs), and coordinate with both technical and business teams.
Must Haves:
- Proven expertise in Java development.
- Strong experience with: Reading/writing from Kafka in Java, and Microservices architecture using Spring Framework.
- Familiarity with log investigation and production support tasks.
- Ability to read, write, and enhance existing codebases.
- Experience working in end-to-end development lifecycle.
- Comfortable collaborating with other teams and driving deliverables to completion.
Pluses:
- MongoDB (especially integrating services with MongoDB).
- Experience with cloud platforms, especially AWS.
- Experience interacting with AWS services within Java applications.
- Background or exposure to service demise and platform migration strategies.