Lead Java Software Engineer (SC Cleared)

Lead Java Software Engineer (SC Cleared)

London

6 months initially
£750-£850 per day inside IR35 / Umbrella

Due to the nature of the role candidates must have current SC Security Clearance.

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 our products
• Lead the Software Engineering community to deliver the strategic vision
• Develop our 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 our citizen services
• Identify skills gaps and key dependencies within our 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