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