Java Tech Lead

Job Summary:

Day to day you will be a hands-on technical lead within an agile, multi-disciplinary team, working with developers, testers, agile leads, and product owners to deliver digital products and showcase technical excellence.

Key responsibilities:

This is a hands-on role where you will be undertaking development alongside leading and guiding the development of your team, providing direction and oversight of the technical delivery for the digital products you are responsible for Actively working on Java and Angular codebase to implement new features and requirements working in partnership with the Product Owners and Architects Help establish and follow a set of engineering principles and best practices to ensure consistency and quality in the engineering process are upheld by efficiently and effectively completing code reviews and feedback to teams.

Assist with Service support during office hours - Identifying, locating and proactively fixing faults Provide mentoring and coaching of more junior members of staff to enhance and improve the teams capability. Bring an energetic and proactive approach to tackling complex technical challenges, encouraging creative problem-solving and continuous learning within the team.

Skills Required:

Hands on and current active technical experience of the following: AWS cloud services (ECR, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Dynamo

DB, Step Functions, Apigee) Java (Spring Boot), Angular

JS, Node 10, Typescript. Tooling:
Gitlab, Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Fortify on Demand or similar, Sonar Qube or similar Cypress/Selenium, BDD-Gherkin > Karate / Cucumber, Jest Demonstrable evidence of leading and mentoring teams, combined with strong stakeholder management and an ability to communicate effectively at all levels within an organisation. Able to establish a series of best engineering practices and implement them across multiple teams. Desirable:
Kotlin, Groovy, Bash, JavaScript, Cloud Formation/Terraform, JBoss Drools, DMN, XML

Qualification:

Graduate level education (or equivalent experience) in Computing, Computer Science, or equivalent subject Essential: AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate or AWS Certified Developer - Associate Adept at leveraging automation to improve development processes and optimise software delivery. Excellent problem-solving abilities and analytical thinking, capable of tackling complex technical challenges. Deep understanding of software architecture, design patterns and best practices, with a focus on creating scalable, maintainable, and efficient systems