Senior Java Developer

Position Description:

We are Canada's largest independent information technology services firm, and at 50 years, we're still growing! Join Canada's largest IT Company as a Senior Java Developer, in our Financial Services Sector in Toronto. Come build High Value Payments with us! We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work on a broad range of features.

This role is hybrid and requires you to be at our downtown Toronto (250 Yonge St, Toronto) and/or Client office at a minimum 4 days per week subject to change at any time.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Develop and implement highly complex and custom components.

• Work closely with other Developers, Designers, Solution Architects and Engineers to create and maintain quality system and infrastructure designs that are maintainable, performant, reliable, scalable, and secure.

• Provide technical coordination for large projects that span multiple teams and cover a diverse spectrum of technologies

• Provide technical guidance to Product Teams (Pods) consisting of Software Engineers, Product Owners, Business Systems Analysts, Scrum Masters and of course our QA engineering group.

• Ensure we have the proper tools in place so that we can ensure our applications are free of common coding vulnerabilities and we follow standard security practices.

As a Team member, you will:

• Apply and share your technical expertise and experience.

• Define our next unit and integration test frameworks and standards.

• Proactively put forward ideas that speak to project objectives (e.g. development, testing solutions, and tools)

• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies

• Contribute to project management activities such as: scope assessment and analysis (e.g. T shirt sizing and Story Mapping), identifying risks and recommending mitigation measures, as well as escalating and communicating possible issues.

• Communicate and collaborate with the broader product team to develop and refine features.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• 10 15 years of experience as a Software Engineer developing and delivering scalable and high throughput projects, with at least 5 – 10 years of experience as a Senior

• Experience in:

  • Java / Spring / Spring Boot / Spring Security
  • RESTful APIs, OAuth
  • Microservice architecture and containerization
  • Messaging Queues
  • Kafka cloud or local
  • Large mission critical online applications design and infrastructure configuration
  • Relational and non relational databases (MS SQL / Oracle / Mongo DB)
  • SCM and task trackers Bitbucket/Git, JIRA and Confluence

• Ability to deconstruct requirements into sizeable work tasks.

• Ability to communicate with non technical members of the team.

• Effective time and task management skills, including the ability to manage concurrent deliverables.

• Self motivated team player with high energy and ability to work independently as well as within teams.

• Creative problem solving skills

• Readiness and motivation (as a Senior / Lead Developer) to address and resolve complex and multi faceted development related issues, often independently.

• Ability to work autonomously in a lead capacity on a diverse range of activities (e.g. design, support of technical business solutions).

• Strength in collaborating with clients, partners, and peer project teams.

• Commitment to and belief in the quality of your deliverables.

• Undergraduate Degree

Nice to have:

• React, Angular or similar technologies.

• Working experience in Agile methodology.

• Familiarity with Maven, Jenkins, Nexus

• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.

• Elasticsearch and AI generative models experience

• Network Layer Design Experience / Knowledge

**CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $95,000–$145,000. This role is an existing vacancy.

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Skills:

• Agile

• Financial Services

• Java

• Oracle

• Spring Boot

What you can expect from us:

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

At CGI, we value the strength that diversity brings and are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone belongs. We collaborate with our clients to build more inclusive communities and empower all CGI partners to thrive. As an equal-opportunity employer, being able to perform your best during the recruitment process is important to us. If you require an accommodation, please inform your recruiter.

That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.

To learn more about accessibility at CGI, contact us via email. Please note that this email is strictly for accessibility requests and cannot be used for application status inquiries.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.