A leading Financial Services company is looking to recruit a Principal Developer on a permanent basis for its growing operations in Dublin with some travel required to their Cavan office. The successful applicant will work closely with the Delivery Manager and will be responsible for the development, implementation and support of new and existing software, working as part of an IT Delivery team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working to requirements or specifications provided, develop and maintain application systems changes for new projects, existing system enhancements and bug fixes.  There will be a focus on quality delivery to agreed timescales
• Undertake Assessment and estimation activities on specified projects, providing solution design, interfacing with Architecture and Infrastructure areas if required, providing technical oversight and control, to ensure successful delivery of the Requirements in conjunction with Project Manager, Business Analyst, Testers and IT Delivery Manager
• Undertake Technical Lead activities where requested on specified projects, providing guidance on overall solution design, interfacing with Architecture and Infrastructure areas, bug issue tracking and resolution, providing technical oversight and control, to ensure successful delivery of the project in conjunction with Project Manager, Business Analyst, Testers and IT Delivery Manager (or equivalent)
• Liaise with third party suppliers & other internal departments on system requirements/issues, with regards to the delivery and support of IT systems
• Provide support in the development life cycle, from requirements gathering through to testing and post implementation
• Deliver technical handover from the Delivery team to the Application Support team
• Adhere to Solution design standards and requirements traceability
• Adhere to all applicable IT development standards, including coding, testing and change control standards
• Report issues, track progress and developments as part of Delivery Team  or BAU on a regular basis

Key Requirements:

• Will be expected to have a  proven deep level of knowledge and proficiency in at least one of the following development specialisations: RPG, RPG/ILE, CL, SQL, T- SQL, Java, J2EE / JSP / OOA/D, Web Services / Spring / Struts, Servlets, Oracle Weblogic Server / JDeveloper / SOA Suite / Weblogic Portal / Oracle Service Bus (ALSB), JDBC, XML, XPath, XQuery, JSF, HTML, JUnit, SOAPUI, Eclipse, ANT, Websphere, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, CVS

• Working knowledge of some of the following Platforms I-Series, SQL Server, DB2, Teradata & Linux
•  Will have a proven ability dealing with the other platforms, people and technologies at a level where we can ensure delivery of an overall solution
• Proven previous experience in a project delivery, application support or testing environment will be an advantage
• Knowledge of products, processes and procedures around financial services systems will be an advantage
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Robert Walters' Information Technology (IT) Division recruits all levels of IT positions across the financial services and commercial sectors including Project Managers, Program Managers, Business Analysts and Data Analysts.