Senior Java Engineer (Front Office/Fixed Income)

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Location: London

AMS is the world's leading provider of Talent Acquisition and Management Services. Our Contingent Workforce Solutions (CWS) service, partner with Deutsche Bank to support contingent recruitment processes.

On behalf of Deutsche Bank, we are looking for a Senior Java Engineer (Front Office/Fixed Income) for a 6 Months contract based in London (Hybrid 3 times per week in the office).

Deutsche Bank is a global banking business with strong roots in Germany and operations in over 70 countries. Their large but focused footprint gives an established position in Europe plus a significant presence in the Americas and Asia Pacific.

Together we're sharing new perspectives and transforming what it means to be a bank.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and enhance existing trading systems in line with business and technical requirements.
• Implement pre-defined solutions to resolve platform issues and improve system stability and performance.
• Build high-quality, maintainable Java applications using established design patterns and engineering best practices.
• Contribute to a shared codebase and support the deployment of changes into UAT environments for testing and validation.
• Provide regular updates on delivery progress, risks, and technical implementation details to stakeholders and team members.
• Create comprehensive technical documentation and actively support knowledge sharing to ensure effective handover and long-term platform ownership.

Skills and qualifications:

• Strong experience developing Front Office trading applications, with a solid understanding of Fixed Income products and trading workflows.
• Proven expertise in Java backend development, including Spring Boot and the design of scalable, high-performance enterprise applications.
• Experience working in a Full Stack role would be beneficial, with the ability to contribute across both backend services and front-end application development.
• Good understanding of modern cloud and DevOps technologies, including Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity preferred).
• Strong knowledge of Oracle databases, including query optimization, data modelling, and troubleshooting within large-scale applications.

Deutsche Bank's values define the working environment they strive to create - diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. They embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. They build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage their people to develop to their full potential.

The Bank promotes good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. They welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs, and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

This client will only accept workers operating via a PAYE engagement model.

AMS's payroll service is in partnership with Giant, we have worked with them for many years and have good processes in place to ensure you get the best service. If you are successful in your application for this role, your contract will be via Giant. For more information on Giant, please follow this link: https://ams-giant-paye-introduction.

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