Application Engineer

Atradius
The Atradius Group provides trade credit insurance, surety and collections services worldwide, and has a presence through 160 offices in 52 countries. The products offered by Atradius protect companies around the world against the default risks associated with selling goods and services on credit.
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Department Description:
Within Atradius ITS, the Credit Insurance Service Delivery (CISD) in charge of planning and managing all applications and programmes specific to Credit Insurance. The team manages these Applications in a Bus Dev Ops manner.
They are in charge of designing, implementing and operating application solutions for demands specified by Product Owners in the central or decentralized business or functional units outside ITS.
Job Description:
As an Application Engineer you will provide the technical skills to create and validate effective solutions in the context of the Atradius application ecosystem.
Application Engineers design, code and automate the test of our technical solutions, choosing the most effective ways of working and implementation in accordance with our Architecture.
The Application Engineers work in Asset teams in a Dev Ops way, closely co-operating with Product Owners, Asset Owners, Analysts and internal and external Engineers to manage and implement the lifecycle of the Asset as well as running and operating it.
What qualification should you have? The ideal candidate will have the following profile:
Required qualifications:
4+ years of experience as Developer or Application Engineer .
Excellent hands-on skills in developing experience with Java 11+ , Spring Boot , Microservices , Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA/JDBC , Git ,Maven, RDBMS (Oracle DB, My SQL, SQL Server)
Experience with Unit and Integration testing and test automation.
Hands-on experience with Software Design Patterns, Docker or Kubernetes (K8S or Open Shift).
Azure knowledge , DEVOPS CI/CD pipelines
Experience with monitoring and alerting (Elastic-ELK/Prometheus/Grafana)
Experience in the Scrum application development lifecycle and the tools engaged in CI/CD, e.g. for Dev Ops.
Understanding messaging platforms (i.e. Kafka, EMS, Active MQ and/or IBM MQ)
Strong moderation skills including sessions with non-technical participants.
Readiness to be on call outside office hours within a roster.
The successful applicant could be required to travel (mainly between the Unit’s locations) for short periods of time, as and when the need arises.
Applicant should be prepared to work 1 d/w in our offices .
Right to work in the EU and the UK.
High English level , but additional language skills (in particular Spanish) will also be valuable.
Good to have:
Sound knowledge of the relevant legacy programming tools and languages like Oracle DB, PL/SQL, SQL, SOA/XML, Oracle forms are of benefit.
Experience with the Oracle Database and components of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Application Stack e.g. BPMN, BPEL, OPA, OBR etc is beneficial.
Analysis and Design documentation methodologies, e.g. ERD, UML, User Stories.
Knowledge of application and modelling development tools such as Sparx, Toad, Confluence, Jira etc..
A finisher ; a person who is able to initiate and manage a course of action through to its completion, from end to end.
Strong communication and influencing skills.
Other qualifications:
Sound knowledge of the relevant legacy programming tools and languages like Oracle DB, PL/SQL, SQL, SOA/XML, Oracle forms are of benefit.
Experience with Camunda is a benefit.
Experience with the Oracle Database and components of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Application Stack e.g. BPMN, BPEL, OPA, OBR etc is beneficial.
Analysis and Design documentation methodologies, e.g. ERD, UML, User Stories.
Knowledge of application and modelling development tools such as Sparx, Toad, Confluence, Jira etc.
Mind-set of continuous improvement.
Resiliency ; the Business’ transformative period will be especially challenging for Atradius’ IT department and individuals will need the ability to absorb setbacks and disappointments, without becoming upset or demotivated.
A finisher ; a person who is able to initiate and manage a course of action through to its completion, from end to end.
Strong communication and influencing skills, being able to translate complex aspects into relevant and easly comprehensible communications.
High standards of professional integrity , which are retained in the face of opposition.
Comfortable and effective working autonomously , without constant supervision and to be able to make your decisions and justify and defend your chosen courses of action.
Professional bearing and an eloquent communicator; coming across as an credible expert in your field and inspiring confidence at all levels in the validity of your advice.
Pragmatic and realistic, rather than just citing “theoretical ideals”; provide meaningful, acceptably-secure compromises, or novel, secure alternatives to insecure solutions.
In this position your key responsibilities will be:
Create and review feasible and economic solution designs and participate in development with our internal and external Partners.
Drive Continuous Improvement and automation of Assets, Processes (deployment, test etc.) and Team performance.
Assure compliance of our Application Assets with our Quality Standards and Architecture.
Conduct sessions to build the technical knowledge across multiple vendors/partners.
Perform impact analysis (including a detailed investigation at code-level) and reverse engineering when required.
Ensure that systems are consistent with each other and adhering to existing/proposed Atradius architecture.
Advise on Asset or Process improvements.
Participate in continuous knowledge improvement of technical skills.
Ensure accurate reporting to management regarding progress on assigned tasks, including risks and deviations from plans.
What do we offer?
A dynamic, international and challenging work environment
Training and support to reach your full potential including the opportunity for continuous professional development
Attractive terms and conditions, including competitive salary, pension package and a range of flexible benefits and rewards
Challenging tasks with individual development and training opportunities
Equal opportunities for all
The success of our organisation stands with the quality of our people and the ideas they have. Insights and innovative solutions for our customers are the result of an interplay of cultures, knowledge and experience. That is why diversity is extremely important to Atradius. To ensure that all colleagues within Atradius can develop their qualities, we promote an inclusive culture in which everyone feels involved and valued. We encourage and welcome everyone to apply to our positions.
Do you have any questions about our offer?
Estrella RAMIREZ, Human Resources, is available by e-mail at
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Atradius is a global provider of credit insurance, bond and surety, collections and information services, with a strategic presence in over 50 countries. The products offered by Atradius protect companies around the world against the default risks associated with selling goods and services on credit. Atradius is a member of Grupo Catalana Occidente (GCO.MC), one of the largest insurers in Spain and one of the largest credit insurers in the world.
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