Lead Application Developer (Java)

Your role will involve being a competent design authority on larger or more complex solutions, demonstrating an understanding of the customers’ business and commercial issues. You will identify, design and deliver larger or more complex architectures, strategies and specific solutions. You will be responsible for the design and communication of structures to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs. Changes to service, process, organization, operating model and other aspects may be required in addition to technology components, and solutions must demonstrate how 

agreed requirements (such as automation of business processes) are met, any requirements which are not fully met or, and any options or considerations which require a business decision. The provision of comprehensive guidance on the development of, and modifications to, solution components to ensure that they take account of relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices and that existing and planned solution components remain compatible.

There may be a need to manage a small/medium design team.

Your transferable skills and experience:

Accountabilities

• Experienced in Java
• Complete responsibility for technical input to qualification and business approval meetings, designing larger more complex solutions.
• Shapes technical proposals to be commercially acceptable to the customer and may make solution/service trade offs.
• Defines the approach to larger/more complex solution development and acceptance testing, controlling technical 
• scope and the work of the design team in order to ensure an acceptable cost structure.
• Represents Fujitsu at customer forums, conferences, and professional bodies to build Fujitsu’s reputation in the 
• market place.
• Establishes customer requirements for a solution building strong relationships and acting as a major influence in the customer choosing Fujitsu.
• Contributes to definition of customers’ overall IT architecture, designing new solutions of significant size and complexity, and can manage the work of specialists contributing to the design and implementation.
• Shares knowledge with colleagues and makes useful additions to the Fujitsu knowledge base.

Please note: It’s still worth applying even if you do not meet all the requirements above. We are passionate about investing in you and your career and if you have the transferable skills/ background being a competent design authority on larger or more complex solutions this could be the next opportunity for you.

Your benefits:

• 25 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible)
• Pension – Double matching contributions of up to 10%
• Life assurance
• Companywide incentive plans
• Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays / travel / dental critical illness and more)
• Perks at work – employee discounts
• Employee assistance programme / virtual GP
• Role dependent benefits: Company car or car allowance 

Recruitment process

The recruitment process consists of at least one interview.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Email EMEIArecruitment@fujitsu.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

Achieve together

We are recognised as a responsible and inclusive employer: Not only are we a certified Disability Confident Leader, a Times Top 50 employer for Gender Equality, a Top 75 employer for Social Mobility, accredited with the Living Wage Foundation and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter, but we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBTI+ and a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.

We are people centric: Our hybrid work environments enable you to Be Completely You. Our active people-led Inclusive Community networks are representative of all aspects of diversity and are instrumental in enabling and supporting our innovative approach to inclusion