Remote Java Architect & Lead Developer; Agile

Fort Western Province Sri Lanka

For an international organization, we are urgently looking for a REMOTE Java Architect / Lead Developer to build and deliver the new IT system using agile practices.

During the corona crisis, interviews will be done through WEBEX, and travel is not required for the interviews. All positions are long-term.

Candidates need to be able to work the European schedule.

• Manage the software development team and provide architectural expertise, direction, and assistance as needed;
• Constantly engage with the Lisbon business team and other technical teams to ensure that the new IT system is properly designed, implemented, and can be easily maintained and supported in the future;
• Manage the development process in an iterative/agile way, with a working build produced early on (after 1-2 sprints) and subsequent working builds available in acceptance at the end of each sprint for feedback from the business team;
• Ensure alignment with technical standards and procedures (e.g., ICTD, CICD, CMU);
• Plan and manage the development team work by using the internal JIRA application;
• The new IT system delivered in production (back-office, front-office, public search website, notifications module, storage, etc.) according to agreed standards (SDSWG, Common Look&Feel, CICD, CMU);
• Working builds produced in acceptance at the end of each sprint (3-week sprint) for quick and constant iteration with the business and other stakeholders (agile iterations). Each new working build should showcase new functionalities of the new system and the business feedback should be considered for the future planning of sprints;
• Integration with IP Portal for CX functionalities (Alerts&MESSAGES, Navbar, Widgets);
• JIRA planning and work management (creation and follow-up of tasks, regular status updates, etc.);
• Complete documentation for the work done, including functional, technical, and transition-to-operations documentation;

• Bachelor/Master degree;
• +7 years of extensive experience in Java software development;
• Working experience as a software developer in Java EE, Hibernate, RDBMS (preferably PostgreSQL), web frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, modern web frameworks, preferably Angular), search engines (preferably Elasticsearch);
• Infrastructure-as-code (preferably AWS Cloud Formation);
• Working with testing skills (preferably Junit, Selenium);
• Experience in managing (offshore) development teams;
• +3 years of extensive experience in Dev Sec Ops  (CI/CD);
• Working with Scrum and QA activities;
• Working with Cloud/AWS;
• Fluent in English;

• A challenging role for an international organization;
• Attractive salary package or freelance rate;