Senior Java Developer

This contract with our government client is for a Senior Java Developer based in Leeds/Hybrid. The pay rate to candidate is up to £800 Inside IR35.  

Overview:  

You will be a skilled Practitioner and a role model in software craftsmanship. Responsible for ensuring best practices are adhered to across the department and guiding teams on how to deliver quality software products. You will assist in the design of software products that make up citizen services in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering principles. With a focus on operational stability, robustness, resilience, availability and quality you will be accountable for the code your teams produce.  

Role & Responsibilities  

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

• Own the development of medium-long term strategies for product lines and the Software Engineering Community;  

• Identify and support the resolution of infrastructure faults;  

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

• Lead multiple Software Engineering teams providing technical leadership and guidance. Including coaching and mentoring your team and their professional development;  

• Contribute and set strategic direction for product team and the wider Software Engineering community;  

• Lead the collaboration & sharing of knowledge and good practice with the wider software engineering community;  

• Lead and support community discussions about best practice within Software Engineering.  

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.