Job Description:

Lead Java Developer

A unique development opportunity to work on a Public Sector Based Large Scale program with an innovative market leader as Lead Java Developer.

Requires a Lead Java developer with strong Java experience to create and implement solutions for our portfolio of Biometric products, as well as supporting live systems and diagnosing incidents.

You will join a team that prides itself on collaboration and engineering the best possible Java code.

Essential: Java 17+, Spring Boot, Spring DataJPA, Spring Integration, Spring Batch, Microservices, Quartz, SQL Database (PostgreSQL), JPA (Hibernate), REST and SOAP Web Services, Messaging (ActiveMQ), Maven, Junit, Jenkins, AWS Cloud hosting and its components, Postgres/Aurora, Bootstrap, Docker, TDD, Agile (Scrum), Jaspersoft, Spring extension projects (Data, Cloud, Batch, Security), Angular.

Public sector experience

8-10 years of hands-on experience with large scale Spring based Java projects.

Must have experience of supporting live systems and diagnosing incidents.

Experience in large scale integration projects involving microservices, messaging, web-services and distributed systems.

Experience with web-services - (SOAP and RESTful)

Experience with containerisation (Docker)

Experience with testing frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, Powermock, JMock, DBUnit, TestContainers.

Experience of connecting processes across several systems with message brokers like ActiveMQ

Experience of Continuous Integration methodologies - Maven, GIT, Jenkins, SonarQube and Stash Repository

Experience of developing in a Linux development environment

Experience of working with a suite of Atlassian products

Experience of working with open-source database management systems like PostgreSQL

Experience of working with AWS services, EC2, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Route53, KMS, Cloudwatch

Agile development methods - Scrum, Kanban, TDD, BDD etc

Strong analytical and decision-making abilities

Desired:

Experience in AWS DevOps

Experience of working with Spring Cloud

Experience of working with Postfix

Experience of using with monitoring tools - Grafana and Prometheus

Creates a cohesive working environment and build high performing teams

Strong stakeholder management

Expertise in Risk management