Sr. Application Developer / Java Developer

Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco
Sanfrancisco, CA
24 Nov 2024

Vacancy expired!

Company Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is looking for a Sr. Application Developer to join the Statistics and Reserves (STAR) team. As we embark on building the Central Bank of the future enabling Cloud and machine learning, we are looking to add a passionate team member who has design and coding ability with the JAVA stack, and who is highly motivated to learn and grow their skills. Are you looking to further deepen your technical relevance using the latest tools and technologies? Are you interested in doing this in an organization that can also offer you a work life balance? If so, we want to hear from you.

The Statistics and Reserves application suite (STAR) collects information from Banks and other types of Depository Institutions. We analyze and process this collected data and provide valuable and critical information to our Board of Governors, Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), Federal Economists, the Treasury, and Congress. Our systems also calculate Reserve Balance requirements, monitor maintained Reserve Balances, and deliver accounting statements to Banks and Depository Institutions. Our work directly impacts the best-known function of the Fed decisions made around interest rates.

In the role of STAR Application Developer, you will help us design, develop, and implement high quality technology solutions within mature environments that address STAR business needs. You will work closely with our development team members, members of the Federal Reserve National IT organizations, and our business partners.

Additionally, you will participate with other Business and Systems Analysts in identifying standard methodologies and process improvements for the requirements definition and management process areas, and in introducing new processes and tools to development teams.

Modernized STAR technology uses JAVA as the foundation language, as well as JSP, JavaScript, Web Services (Restful and SOAP), J2EE and other Object-Oriented techniques. STAR runs on an Oracle RDBMS, with PL-SQL and common database objects (Functions, Procedures, Packages, Triggers, etc.) underneath. XML, JSON, and XBRL are heavily used for file transmissions and data validations. We employ an Agile development process.

This position may require some weekend and after hour's coverage supporting application deployments, business activities, and acting as a point of escalation should severe issues be encountered.

Responsibilities:
  • You will develop an understanding of the Statistics and Reserves business areas.
  • You will grow strong relationships with the business partners.
  • Understand, analyze, and clarify high-level requirements and handle their breakdown into detailed requirements, either in the form of use cases, user stories, or other methods.
  • You will translate user requirements into technical artifacts including data model, business scenarios, workflow diagrams, file layouts, report layouts, and consolidated business rule matrices.
  • Analyze and ensure efficient transition of all requirement and functional design documents into technical designs and code artifacts
  • Ensure that application and implementations comply with secure coding standards and internal FRB security requirements.
  • Perform System/Integration/Regression testing of new development and problem reports as needed.
  • Provide education and training as needed to business users, application development, application support, and test teams.
  • Assist with implementation planning.
  • Act as a point of escalation when needed to help triage and resolve production issues. Use business and system knowledge to analyze change requests, recreate problems, and differentiate between education/training issues and true production problems.
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Systems/Programming or related discipline, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of related development experience in an enterprise environment
  • Expertise in designing and developing applications using Java and REST Architecture
  • Better understanding of various database architectures and implementations
  • Solid understanding on data modeling (both RDBMS and NO-SQL), various ORMs (JDBC, Spring JDBC) and SQL.
  • Hands on experience in developing application modules with database integration using best practice implementations.
  • Expertise in JAVA, Spring Framework (including SpringBoot) and other back-end frameworks
  • Experience in a continuous integration environment (Preferably Jenkins)
  • Must be passionate and driven to learn and apply new technologies and methods of software development, driven to experiment and innovate.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of software development methodologies, SDLC, Agile, and version control practices.
  • Must possess strong business acumen, excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Strong analytical, multitasking, and time management skills.
  • Must be a , or a Holder with the intent to become a .
Preferred skills:
  • Experience with software build tools like Maven and continuous integration tools like Jenkins.
  • Exposure to DevOps practices.
  • Exposure to cloud-based application development.

At the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, we offer a wonderful benefits package including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Pretax Flexible Spending Account, Paid Family Leave Care, Backup Child Care Program, Pretax Day Care Flexible Spending Account, Vacation Days, Sick Days, Paid Holiday's, Pet Insurance, Matching 401(k), and an unheard of Retirement / Pension.

Effective October 1, 2021, all employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or qualify for an accommodation from the Bank's vaccination policy; the Bank will provide accommodations as required by law for individuals unable to be vaccinated due to medical condition or sincerely held religious belief.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

At the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, we believe in the diversity of our people, ideas, and experiences and are committed to building an inclusive culture that is representative of the communities we serve. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Regular / Temporary Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No) Yes

Job Category Information Technology

Work Shift First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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