Senior Engineer - Java Microservices

Date: 28 Aug 2023

Country: India

Function: Digital

Sub-Function: Digital

About Us

Olam International is a leading food and agri-business supplying food, ingredients, feed and fibre to over 19,800 customers worldwide. Our value chain spans over 60 countries and includes farming, processing and distribution operations, as well as a sourcing network of 4.8 million farmers. Through our purpose to 'Re-imagine Global Agriculture and Food Systems', Olam aims to address the many challenges involved in meeting the needs of a growing global population, while achieving positive impact for farming communities, our planet and all our stakeholders. Headquartered and listed in Singapore, Olam currently ranks among the top 30 largest primary listed companies in terms of market capitalisation on SGX-ST.

Olam Information Services (OISL) is a captive subsidiary of Olam International, Singapore offering IT Services & Global Business Services across its operations in 65 countries in Asia, Africa, EU & Americas. In Chennai, we currently have onboard more than 1000 highly motivated employees. Olam Digital has received International Innovation Award 2019 for Best Services and Solutions.

Olam Global Business Services (OGBS) is a captive unit that offers End to End business process and analytics solutions. OGBS currently offers its solutions in 6 Platforms: Finance, Supply Chain, People services, Risk & Market Compliance, Big Data Analytics and Business Intelligence. At this moment, OGBS is located in City of Chennai, India and provides its services to over 20 countries. Olam GBS has received Best Shared Services in India Award – 2019, by Shared Services Forum and Asia’s No.1 Shared Services in Process Improvement and Value Creation, 2019 by Shared Services and Outsourcing Network Forum.

Job Summary

Digital Olam is a brand-new group with the energy, drive, and brave thinking attitude that is needed to bring innovation to Olam. Our job is to accelerate the impact of digital transformation by partnering closely with our business units, we prototype ideas, test them in real business scenarios, and quickly adapt the solution. Combining data science, human-centered design, and the latest rapid development techniques—such as agile, micro services and DevOps—we help Olam deliver breakthrough products, experiences, and businesses. We are Digital Olam!!!

Job Description

•   Responsible to develop and maintain cloud applications and microservices
•   Design microservice based architecture aiming for reusability and scalability across Olam digital projects
•   Able to work and deliver in an agile framework
•   Able to define automated test strategy to ensure the quality of the delivered cloud application/microservice
•   Experience with CI/CD and devOps to support continuous delivery of the application
•   Work closely with a cross-disciplinary team, including technology, business team, marketing and country teams to understand the business requirements and design the necessary solution
•   Continually drive towards a meaningful balance between user needs, business objectives and technical feasibility
•   Own the execution of cloud solutions and ensure that the solution works per the agreed architecture, SLAs, KPIs and business model
•   Identifying and defining business and operational KPIs that would help Olam to achieve mobility goals and objectives
•   Write efficient, clear code and able to articulate what has been implemented and why and along with accompanying test suites.
•   Status reporting both to business and technology management.

Profile Description

•   Graduate or Post-graduate in Computer Science or in any relevant discipline with a minimum of 4+ years of experience working in web application and microservice development
• Experience in developing applications and microservice on Microsoft Azure will be an added advantage
•   Strong knowledge and exposure working across various services and components in Azure
•   Strong knowledge on developing microservices using Java Springboot, Angular JS, Javascript & etc
•   Should be good at using the following DevOps tools: Jenkins, GIT, Sonar, Selenium, JIRA etc
•   Strong knowledge on SQL database
•   Good understanding of Restful API skills
•   Robust application testing skills
•   Experience in agile teams is an added advantage
•   Knowledge and experience with automated test tools
•   Excellent written and verbal communication skills
•   Ability to work in cross-functional teams
•   Commodities domain knowledge (agri, energy or metals) is plus.

Olam is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, nationality, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants are requested to complete all required steps in the application process including providing a resume/CV in order to be considered for open roles.