Lead Java Developer

This contract with our central government client is for a Lead Java Developer for 12 months based in London / Hybrid - 2 days per week. The pay rate to candidate is up to £850.  

As a Lead Software Engineer you will be an expert in your field, skilled in multiple disciplines, a role model in software craftsmanship and have proven experience in the design, development and support of software products. Responsible for defining medium to long term strategies for product lines, defining guidelines for the Engineering community and leading their adoption across teams in order to deliver quality software products. You will lead the design of complex software products that make up citizen services in collaboration with Architecture.  

Roles & Responsibilities  

• Champion technical evolution within the organisation, find, test, agree and adopt emerging technologies;  

• Champion the latest Software Engineer best practices, principles and processes;  

• Manage and mitigate risks through effective planning;  

• Design and lead the strategies for building reusable libraries and services;  

• Prevent and diagnose infrastructure issues. Ensure all requests for support are dealt with according to set standards and procedures;  

• Provide 3rd line support on products developed, including out of hours support as and when required;  

• Collaborate with large teams of Software Engineers and key technical decision makers to define the strategic vision for their products;  

• Lead the Software Engineering community to deliver the strategic vision;  

• Develop their Software Engineering capability by rewarding high; performers, shaping career paths and recruiting talent to the organisation;  

• Collaborate with the Principal Software Engineering community to ensure usability, accessibility, security, stability and capacity are embedded in the development of their citizen services;  

• Identify skills gaps and key dependencies within their product teams.  

Development languages  

• Java  

Database management  

• SQL  

• PostgresSQL  

• MySQL  

• MongoDB  

• Cassandra  

• SQL tuning  

• Kernel tuning  

• Explain plans  

• Patching and upgrade  

• Meet Recovery Point Objectives  

• Meet Recovery Time Objectives  

• L2/L3 Database Build  

• Partitions  

Version control  

• Git  

Cloud environment  

• Develop  

• Build and test interfaces between systems  

Spring framework  

• Spring Boot  

• Spring Security  

• Spring Batch  

Development practice Continuous Delivery  

• Continuous Integration  

Testing  

• Test Driven Development  

• J-Unit  

• Jasmine  

• Automated test frameworks  

• User testing  

Linux Operating Systems  

• Use, operate, patch and secure  

• Bash  

• RHEL  

Collaboration tools  

• Jira  

• Confluence  

• Slack  

Behaviour Driven Development  

• Cucumber  

Micro-Service Architecture  

• Develop  

API design and open standards  

• RESTful APIs  

• Swagger  

• OpenAPI  

• Cloud computing  

Security  

• OWASP Top Ten  

• Denial of Service  

• SQL Injection  

• Cross Site Request Forgery  

High Availability products  

• EDB failover manager  

RPC concepts and transport mechanisms  

• HTTP  

• Shared memory  

Containerisation  

• Docker  

• Kubernates

Candidates must have substantial experience within a lead java role and that have worked in a LEAD Capacity.