Role: Lead Java Developer REF 80892
Contract Length: 12 months
Location: Hybrid/London - 2 days per week in the office
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: BPSS
Spinwell is recruiting for a Lead Java Developer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE LEAD JAVA DEVELOPER
- 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.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE LEAD JAVA DEVELOPER
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
If you are a Lead Java Developer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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Disability Confident
As a member of the disability confident scheme, the client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
Armed Forces Covenant
The client is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
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