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.

Must be eligible for SC Clearance

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 system

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

Minorities, women, LGBTQ+ candidates, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Interviews will take place next week, so please apply immediately to be considered for this exciting contract role or call Bangura Solutions to discuss this role further.