Senior Java Consultant

Hitachi Vantara is the global business and IT consulting company of Hitachi Ltd and is recognised as a leader in delivering proven business strategies and technology solutions. Hitachi Vantara UK offers the agility of a smaller firm, the stability of a larger firm and the innovation that comes from being part of the global Hitachi group.

With a balanced view of strategy, people, process and technology, Hitach Consulting UK works with organisations to understand their unique business needs, and to develop and implement solutions that provide measurable value quickly through the inspired work of great people.

**Opportunity**

**Responsibilities**

The main responsibilities relate to the management and maintenance of Java solutions.
- Monitoring, managing and resolving support incidents in conjunction with the central Managed Services Helpdesk;
- Involvement in the development of new IT solutions and the maintenance of support documentation;
- Working as part of a wider architectural team to ensure the feasibility of the end to end client solution and its alignment to the future technical and business direction of client
- Performing standardised and bespoke technical activities during the deployment and support of client environments.
- Creating and maintaining client specific technical documentation
- Performs various technical and process analysis activities to gather required information for the resolution of an issue
- Providing design and specification development support to consultants
- Responding to functional and technical elements of requests for information
- Assist in the design and development of new products and tools
- Resolving customer issues or difficulties in a manner that is consistent with the company mission, values, and financial objectives
- Participating in 24x7 on-call rotation and perform after hours support, as needed
- Working on shifts
- Working with teams and clients across multiple geographies (India, UK, Iberia, Vietnam and US)

**Background**

We hire professionals, passionate about the benefits technology can bring to business. Successful applicants will have worked across the full project lifecycle for a consulting or system integrator, working in an environment where they have taken appropriate accountability of estimates, design, implementation and operation.

**Essential Skills**:

- Node.JS or Angular.JS
- JSP / Servlets
- Web Frameworks like Struts / Spring
- Service Oriented Architecture / Web Services - SOAP / REST
- Web Technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript and JQuery
- Markup Languages like XML and JSON.Front-end: AngularJS, Webpack, HMTL and CSS3
- Proven experience in working with source code repository and Visual studio online if possible
- Proven T-SQL skills in creating and maintaining stored procedures, tables and views
- An understanding of IT security standards and associated design considerations
- An understanding of source code review
- Experience of working in an ITIL environment

**Advantageous Skills**:

- Ability to create File, eMail, sFTP, SQL Server, HTTP and SMTP interfaces.
- Experience of automated systems monitoring and alerting products
- Experience of other enterprise Relational database technologies, e.g. SQL Server, etc.
- Experience of Linux, MQ
- Experience of Spring Framework: Spring Boot and Spring REST
- Experience of Spark Streaming + YARN
- Experience of Cassandra, Cloudera, Spark, Pentaho
- Experience of Google and Azure cloud.